I’m currently reading the Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey. It’s pretty decent I’ve been making very rapid progress as it’s been too hot to sleep here recently now the summer has arrived.
I haven’t seen the Apple show, but maybe I’ll watch it in the future when I’ve finished all the books (I had Shift and Dust as well).
I started this book series that begins with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. It’s a space sci-fi series and the author did a great job with creating different societies and species and thinking about things like different methods of speech and communication, mobility, how do multi-species societies work, etc. But she did a good job of focusing less on the world building with a focus on how the characters navigate the world and situations they’re in.
One of the author’s parents worked for NASA as an astrophysicist or something, the other was a biologist, and she’s a huge DnD nerd, so that all seems to check out haha.
I really recommend the series.