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My fantasy time has been dominated by a first listen of the Wheel of Time series. I'm on the final volume now, on track to finish almost exactly a year from starting book one, with just a couple interludes of other audio (well, a full re-listen/read of the Stormlight Archives so far, finishing with the latest).
Stormlight is outstanding, if you're willing to jump into a series that's likely a decade or two from completion. Greg Bear's lone fantasy work from the '80s, Songs of Earth and Power (first published in two volumes, The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage), is worth a read if you've overlooked it.
In sci-fi, I've dug some good stuff out of Kindle Unlimited on my two trial/sale runs this past year:
Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, Nathan Lowell
The Bobiverse Trilogy, Dennis E. Taylor
Currently I'm reading Douglas Phillips' Quantum Void, right on the heels of Quantum Space. The prose and characterization are nothing special, but the hard sci-fi foundation and space-operatic expansion of the premises are satisfying.
I don't go through enough books to make KU worthwhile at the normal pricing, but there is some good stuff in there.
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