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If I could read a book in its original language versus an English translation, I would. Alas, I am a monoglot.

You could just make a spreadsheet. Not everything has to be an app.

Automatic writing for the twenty-first century

C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner series spans 22 volumes (currently). I enjoyed it immensely.

While not sci-fi, Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series is great for “on a journey” across the seas of the Napoleonic era.

It’s only derivative if every movie based on a book is derivative.

I’m reading The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris. It’s non-fiction. Morris’ books have a good narrative, but they are scholarly works. I haven’t gotten very far into The Anglo-Saxons yet, but one bit I greatly enjoyed was the author drawing parallels between Beowulf and Tolkien’s Rohirrim, all while discussing the archaeological evidence for feasting halls and the zeitgeist of the people who’d built those halls.