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The Bobiverse Series by Dennis Taylor.

These books aren't anything that will change your life, but they're well written and a lot of fun.

I wonder how much "well written" is a matter of taste (I thought it wasn't that much). I found "We Are Legion" very poorly written although I loved the premise and really wanted to read it but couldn't go any further then maybe a quarter of it. It also happened to me with Murakami's Kafka On The Shore but I blame that on the translation or some cultural impedance mismatch.

I listened to this series as an audiobook and I enjoyed it a lot. I prefer reading to listening but this one worked really well and has a great narrator. It's a good series too, simple fun with decent jokes and a well paced plot.

Seconded, Ray Porter is just too good of a narrator and whatever he does almost always tends to be entertaining.

This is one of my all-time favorite series. I laugh so much reading them, and the later books go heavy into really interesting alien species. Authors love them as well: https://shepherd.com/search/book/38814

Have you read any Peter Hamilton? He is another fav of mine.

I have not read Peter Hamilton, but always looking for new good books. Thanks for the recommendation!

I'd start with Pandora's Star, they are HUGE in scope, so its a big book but worth it IMO.

I'd start with the Night's Dawn trilogy, I've read most PFH except for his last few and those are my ATFs.

Night's Dawn was the first Hamilton I read...and I've read it once or twice since.

I've found the Mandel Trilogy to be entertaining, too. Could be thought of as some world-building for the much later ND? But not as epic. Just three normal paperbacks.

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