I know cozy fantasy was a really popular genre for a while but you never really hear of any cozy/slice of life sci-fi stuff. The one thing I have heard of that’s on my reading list is Monk & Robot. Does anyone know any other examples of cozy sci-fi books?
by sleepy_paul
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Calahan’s Cross Time Saloon and sequels by Spider Robinson were cozy before modern cozy genre was a thing.
James Whyte Sector General series exist within a galactic federation.
The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August.
Also check out Becky Chambers’ other series: Wayfarers.
Ian M Banks. His Culture novels are very cozy IMO.
There’s Chambers’ Wayfarers series too, but cozy sci-fi as a subgenre hasn’t really kicked off afaik. Some of Bujold’s *Vorkosigan* stories count (*A Civil Campaign, Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance,* partially *Ethan of Athos* and the shorts *Flowers of Vashnoi* and to an extent *The Mountains of Mourning*, but the series as a whole definitely isn’t what you’d call cozy, and those are mostly pretty late installments.)
There’s *The Cybernetic Tea Shop* by Meredith Katz
Mur Lafferty’s *Midsolar Murders* are cosy sci-fi mysteries, as are Malka Older’s Mossa and Pleiti Investigations.
The *Powers That Be* trilogy by Anne McCaffery and Elizabeth Scarborough is cozy-ish, dating to a time when “cozy” was only applied to murder mysteries starring little old ladies in seaside towns.
Maybe *Ocean Binman* by Jasmin Joachims