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I'm reminded of a line of dialogue in a book I recently read (well, listened to). To expound on the plot summary on Amazon, the protagonist awakens to find that, while he was dead, the US became a theocratic state. Cryogenic preservation was ruled to be blasphemous, preserved people were declared to be dead, and all related assets were confiscated and sold off, including the preserved people.
The protagonist observes that it seems like it the proper action would have been to just bury the people, to which the other character replies, "Did theologues limit themselves to logical or consistent behavior in your time?"
I laughed so hard at that line - especially how it's delivered by the narrator - that I nearly had to pull my car off the road.
I enjoyed Zeroth Law very much! For any other Redditors reading this, I encourage you to buy a copy, it's a very good read.
Note also that this book, along with many others in the comments here, is part of Kindle Unlimited so if you're a member of that program you can read them for free. As I understand it, the authors still get paid for KU titles that are read so that's a good thing too.
While not a LitRPG I feel like the Bobiverse scratches the same itch very well.
It's about a guy who's consciousness is put into a robot and shot off into space. He has 3D printers that can create anything he can think of, including copies of himself. While not living "in a game" he still creates his own VR world that he shares with his copies and can control his perception of time by speeding up/slowing down his processor.
He explores, invents, creates and discovers tons of amazing stuff.
The Expeditionary Force series has all the books available to read for free for Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscribers, and the first audiobook for the Columbus Day (book1) is free too. So you can read and listen to the first book for free to decide if you want to continue the series. Books 2-5 are available on Audible for $7.95, cheaper than credits, so don't use a credit to buy them.
https://www.amazon.com/Columbus-Day-Expeditionary-Force-Book-ebook/dp/B01AIGC31E
Kindle Unlimited is $9.99/mos. I think it's worth subscribing for at least 6 months because I could easily find 10 books and audiobooks per month that I was able to enjoy. After clearing off all the books I was interested in reading/listening too, the subscription is probably of less value and not worth it for most people.
The Bobiverse Series is another excellent science fiction series on Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ/
I don't know if you knew, but that is a book:
>Over two hundred years ago, the life of one of Starfleet's earliest pioneers came to a tragic end, and Captain Jonathan Archer, the legendary commander of Earth's first warp-five starship, lost a close friend. Or so it seemed for many years. But with the passage of time, and the declassification of certain crucial files, the truth about that fateful day -- the day that Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III didn't die -- could finally be revealed.
>Why did Starfleet feel it was necessary to rewrite history? And why only now can the truth be told?
Have you heard of We are Bob? It's a book that started as audiobook series. It very closely goes through the scenario you mention. One of the best sci-fi series imo.
Expeditionary Force
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AIGC31E
Dont read the reviews... lots of salty people about the success of the series.
The basics of the plot is aliens show up, and realistically the earth gets fucked in like 30 minutes. our protagonist along with 100,000 humans get shipped offworld to be an ground-pounding force, but really they get used more like... peace keepers. series of events happen, and plucky humans become space pirates. can't say what the events are without spoiling it, but it is a bit of a slow roll and then BAM it goes really well.
I recommend the audiobooks, R.C. Bray is a phenomenal narrator with a good range in voice acting and really brings things to life. The audiobooks by themselves are expensive, so I suggest getting audible subscription but there is a loophole, if you buy the kindle book you can get the audiobook for very little.
in that link there should be an option labeled:
(Add Audible narration to your purchase for just $7.49) With the kindle price being like $2.99
If magic is more your cup of tea, I also have a great series on that, its about a guy transported to another world but he is no hero, instead of a dungeon lord.
If space scifi realism is your cup of tea I got another series too.
Bobiverse is good. have you read the Frontlines Series by Marko Kloos? Excellent books. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CIXX144/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2
Colapsing Empire series by Scalzi.
Ian DOuglas's stuff is pretty good.
Rachel Bach's Paradox series
The Legend of Zero series - Sara King
If anyones looking for a fun Sci-Fi book and has an ereader
"Old Man's War" is on sale on amazon for $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Mans-War-John-Scalzi-ebook/dp/B000SEIK2S
I think its also on sale at googles store
Give the Bobiverse series a try.
The premise: An engineer signs up for cryogenically freezing his brain when he dies on a whim. A bus runs him over. He wakes up hundreds of years in the future except it has been determined that these frozen brains are now the property of the state. They couldn't unfreeze him and bring him back to life, but they COULD use his brain as a template to be mapped into a computer system. He is now effectively an AI, given control over a Von Neuman probe that is to be sent out to colonize space.
There's lots of fun world building and an interesting look at the human condition. They're pretty clever with Bob too. For example, there's no such thing as Faster Than Light travel, so Bob just turns his clock speed down. In this way he experiences time slower than is actually happening and doesn't go insane on the long journey between planets. The books really start to pick up as he constructs other Bobs, each with their own slightly different personalities.
https://www.amazon.com/Between-Worlds-Occupation-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B08VD7DKC7
Okay is it turns out there's probably not physical copies, but I'm sure I could download it if we raided a warehouse. Amazon's (the character type) aren't normally my thing but I like science fiction.
You might really enjoy a book series called “The Bobiverse”
It’s about a von Neumann probe with an Ai made of a human engineers (Bob) brain scan.
The science is pretty solid and general relativity and time dilation is an integral part of the plot.
https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ/ref=nodl_
It's not litrpg, but would a sci-fi anti-harem work? I feel it's anti-harem because the MC is having lots of sex, but there's a lot of gender reversal in it. It's called Between Worlds Amazon.com: Between Worlds (The Occupation Saga Book 1) eBook: Williams, J.L.: Kindle Store . Set up is that Earth has been invaded by humanoid aliens who have an eight to one female/male ratio.
For a perspective on how things might go for a cryonics patient in the future, read "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor. The audiobook narration is great!
Seriously though, try not to think about it. Everything ends. That's life. Live in the moment. You have the ability to choose how you want your life to go. Enjoy life while it lasts and appreciate how lucky you are to be self-aware as a human with opposable thumbs, Pokemon, and SpongeBob.
One thing that I've learned is that some books that you buy on Amazon will let you add the narration for really cheap if you buy the book. So instead of paying $30 for a book (or $15 a month for a credit), you can buy a kindle book on sale and 'add' the audio book.
I'm currently listening to a series called the Bobiverse thanks to this. The first book (We are Legion, We are Bob) was only $4 for the book and then another $2 to add the audiobook. If you like sci-fi/adventure books, I'd recommend it, it's dumb fun.
Also don't forget that your local library probably offers audiobooks on OverDrive.
positioning of guns is a lot less relevant when you can just point the ship in whatever direction you want and still keep going the same direction you were before, space physics in warfare is actually a really interesting topic and if you are interested in a really awesome "hard" sci fi book which theoretically realistic space combat check out Through Struggle, The stars. It's in my top 5 all time bet sci fi list
https://www.amazon.com/Through-Struggle-Stars-Human-Reach-ebook/dp/B005FGNLDM
They're shorter and definitely lighter fare, but the other series I always pick up as soon as they are released are the Starship's Mage books by Glynn Stewart (https://www.amazon.com/Starships-Mage-Glynn-Stewart-ebook/dp/B00QW6ZG14)
Stewart has a bunch of fairly boilerplate sci-fi series in terms of character and plot with excellent fleet combat scenes and a lot of creativity when it comes to coming up with different sets of technologies/features of the setting that enable, say, FTL travel, or prioritize fighter combat vs capital ship combat, and extrapolating out interesting uses for that technology that fit in-universe.
Starship's Mage is his series where the MacGuffin isn't some sort of special technology, but instead that 200 years from now a very illegal eugenics operation is undertaken to discover and activate latent genes that let its bearers use magic. FTL travel then becomes feeding the energy to perform a teleportation spell into a specialized rune matrix that causes an entire ship to jump 1 light-year instead of one person to jump 1 mile.
The series follows a young mage who joins a merchant ship as a jump mage but quickly realizes that his abilities in magic are far beyond that of normal mages and is eventually recruited by the government to become, in effect, a one-man peacekeeping force. In the background, a set of anti-mage systems are slowly moving towards open rebellion against the rest of the empire through the technological development of FTL travel and communications.
One nice thing is that the guy writes as fast as Brandon does. A new book every year in that series, and if you branch out to his other series, he puts out like 3-4 books a year on a rotating schedule.
This is an easy one.
The Bobiverse series from Dennis E. Taylor is very factorio like.
First Book is called "We are Legion (We are Bob)"
Amazon Description:
>!Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.
Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.
The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.!<
>!(https://www.amazon.de/Are-Legion-Bobiverse-Book-English-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ)!<
Not sure, this probably isn't what your looking for but it is a very good and long series, on how humans whoop ass in space. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005VGB16A/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_4QXDM6PDKTJ2E1457HK3
This sort of thing occurs during Marko Kloos’ Frontlines series. If you’re down for military scifi it’s a good set of books. Not really done as a series yet.
First book.
Dennis Taylor's Bobiverse .. 3 books all about exploration and first contact and saving earth ..
https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1)
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ is litrpg-adjacent.
Guy wakes up, and he's a spaceship. (sorta).
Then transitions into a empire building/combat thing with massive light-speed delays.
I have like-powered lasers in my 'verse, but I can recommend a super gritty, hard SF series that first gave me the idea for them. Read the two books in the (sadly incomplete) Human Reach trilogy by Jonathan Lumpkin. It's about a speculative fiction war between the West and China in about 150 years from now, when many neighboring star systems have been explored.
Lasers are and missiles are the most important weapons in all spaceships in his verse. He's got several battles where lasers provide covering artillery fire from orbit against infantry on the ground, and it is fucking terrifying. In his space battles, kinetics tend to take a secondary role as area-denial / suppressive enfilade fire. He has a big catalog of ships from the two books on his website. Here, for example, is the ship his main character is on board during Book 1.
There's a sci-fi book series I read called We Are Bob. It's about a human who has his consciousness uploaded into a Von Neumann probe, essentially the first synthetically ascended human. Aside from nostalgia and interacting with other humans, the human form is kinda impractical for even menial labor when there are more efficient forms.
It's a great series and super quick read. I know it's on Amazon (maybe digital only). I got the audio books and listened to them back and forth from work.
Cool thing. I am slogging through (book #12) of the Wot right now, but a big sci-fi nerd and general fantasy.
Recommend the Bobiverse books by Dennis Taylor. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWAESYQ?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref\_=dbs\_mng\_calw\_0&storeType=ebooks
Probably not what you meant, but there is a great series about leaving earth with this AI they call The Bobs.
We are legion (we are Bob).
https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ/ref=nodl_
There is a book series (wich I quite like) wich is far in the future where the major powers do not fight on earth anymore but on distant planets.
Terms of Enlistment is the name. Has also good Audiobooks
https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ
It says “1 of 3” in the listing, but he’s up to four books now, with more coming :) The first three books feel mostly like a continuation of a single story arc, where book four jumps off to a kind of “new” story, and IMO was awesome. Watching the otters at the aquarium took on a whole new light after reading Heaven’s River!
Oh you would love the Bobiverse by Dennis Taylor. Book 1: https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ