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.

  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    16 hours ago

    It was a joke, because Google returned only 1 unique result for me, which was this very post.

    Herschel.com is only returned if you accept Google’s suggested alternative spelling, and is obviously unrelated

    • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Oh, whoosh :(

      I don’t have an option to accept/reject alternative spellings – what I see is a message along the lines of “showing results for FUBAR; do you really want to search only for FooBar?”

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksOP
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Yeah, that’s Google defaulting to showing you the results for the suggested alternative. If you click yes on FooBar then you’re telling Google to stop trying to be smart and show you what you’re actually searching for.