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I love stories about highly skilled people dealing with a bizarre situation in a professional, no-nonsense way. Examples: The Martian (astronaut survives), Moonfall (the novella by Ian McDonald about a tech fixing a lunar facility). Any genre, sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, is welcome!
by Aggressive_Two2081
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I know this is answering the letter of your query rather than the spirit of it, but I would love to hear what you think of _Convenience Store Woman_ by Sayaka Murata.
*The French Connection*.
The Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell. Low stress narrative. No actual pirates, mostly personnel problems and sloppy engineering issues that could kill a ship’s crew if left to fester. Ish has a habit of fixing the problems he encounters because they need doing.