You’re welcome for the recs! Jessie Mihalik is one of my favorite authors now, I loved the Consortium Rebellion trilogy. I picked up Of Monsters and Mayhem at the last local book crawl, I may have to read it sooner now!
Classic scifi can be hit or miss. I actually haven’t read much of the classic authors, although I have some in my collection to get through eventually. I read Stowaway to Mars by John Wyndham as a blind book date and it wasn’t a bad book, but man the woman was very very poorly written.
It sucks you get a side eye for reading books you enjoy. I don’t think anyone should be shamed for reading anything. Even if it’s a genre I don’t like, I still ask questions when someone does enjoy something. One of my colleagues is a big biography reader, which I am most certainly not, but I still enjoy chatting about who she is reading about and she likes hearing about my dorky scifi books lol
I’m going to add all your books to my library list! Thanks again!