I enjoyed Blackthorn Winter by Douglas Wilson. It's a pirate story, but it has political undertones and takes an interesting stance on piracy itself as a concept. It has plenty of adventure and action, but also presents some things to think about. I won't spoil anything more, and it's pretty obscure too. It's written for kids but I enjoyed reading it both when I was a kid and re-reading a couple months ago.
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I'm reading a novel called Shogun, and there's a pirate called Blackthorne in it too.
Is this a coincidence? XD
probably some random person's book of poetry
The first one that came to mind is Lord Gamma, a German SF/F novel published in 2000. I read it when it came out and still think about it sometimes. It currently stands at 22 ratings and 3 reviews in Goodreads.
I read a lot of old scifi anthologies, a lot barely have a handful of reviews. Example, my last one. It’s edited by Asimov, and at the time he was one of the leading authors. So they’re popular, just old so not anymore?
I enjoy the pacing, I can usually end a story in my reading window as I would say on average they are around 40 pages. So a 30 minute commitment. But some do go up to over a hundred pages, some are even just a hundred words.