Family was in town and we taught them Cat in the Box and Terraforming Mars. Both were a big hit with an edge to Cat because of the decreased complexity. Haven't played much of TM at 4, usually at 2, and the strategy changes quite a bit!
Snow Crash is one of my favorite books. So much fun from beginning to end. Also one of the few books by Stephenson that has an unrushed ending.
Been a long time since I read A Canticle for Leibowitz. Good book and should probably re-read it now.
Two sequels! I'll get around to reading them but have a stack to read through first. The murderbot books have been my audiobook listening since they were in a humble bundle a few weeks ago. Got to the 5th one (network effect) and still enjoyable and engaging.
Star Trek novels? Wide array of them of very different styles. Read a bunch of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ones and a few of the old TOS ones. Maybe not the best writing but fun enough.
Think the Bobiverse could be what you want too, although again more pulpy then high brow.
But I'll admit mass effect is still in my backlog, I've only maybe played the first act of game 1.
Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein?
Seconding that that'd be fun. I'd also be down if we wanted to try and put together a race season depending on the number of people, time, and program (ACC, Automobilista 2, etc.)
As of the other day the series was on sale at GOG. ~$30 for 0 though 6.
New to the series and started with 0 and been enjoying it.
Haven't played but from another thread I saw about that game awhile ago was to try and play co-op to start. Was told it can be very difficult initially playing solo.
World of Tanks is similar too. A little faster paced perhaps but doing the right thing in the right place is a 1000% more important than reflexes imo. Never played in clans and it might be different at that level.
And we played a little Cascadia which went over well.