As an example, I love the Martian, and I think a lot of older books from authors like Asimov are heavily into engineering / competence porn. Other favs in this category include the standalone novel Rendezvous with Rama to leave you wishing for more, most of the Culture series for happy utopian vibes, Schlock Mercenary for humor, Dahak series for fun mindless popcorn.

Edit: I’m so happy to have found a replacement for r/books and the rest of them.

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    Can you elaborate on what specifically bothered you? I didn’t notice anything when I read it but it was a good while ago

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      It’s been a while too.

      I think I felt that the dialogue was kind of flat and I was upset at how human the alien was.