Recs if you like Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)...

Human’s falling in love in space, with Aliens and other Humans

Want to escape to somewhere "out of this world"? This list is for you! Let me know if I'm missing any of your favorites!!

With bone-piercing bolts and mechanically enhanced strength, meat and metal convene in these books as our iron-bound protagonists engage in the next step in the evolution of battle.

This list includes novels, short stories, and mangas whose central plot features Powered Armor (including magically enhanced armor), Mechs, or more generally protagonists who have undergone any sort of marrying of metal and flesh.

Recommendations welcome! General rule: they have to battle.

Come for the futuristic, gritty city vibes, stay for the outcasts fighting corrupt systems.

This list includes a range range of cyberpunk and urban fantasy books not always featured in classic lists. Cyberpunk sci-fi often features high tech science-based futures, action and adventure, and outcasts fighting against systems. Urban fantasy has a similar feel, but uses fantasy elements like magic. Come enjoy some near-futuristic worlds bursting with creativity and scrappy characters.

Have you canceled your Paramount subscription but still want the Star Trek feeling? These books may help.

Genres in this list include space opera, space regency, and of course, science fiction. Some of them have the space travel, some the found families/ensemble casts, some of them the alien encounters.