Read the Narnia books if you want to see real Christian allegory in full effect…

They can be prescribed for Medicinal Cannabis and also to help quit smoking.

They are already being sold in Australia, which has fairly strict safety standards

s/ecosystem/monopoly

So they now make 5k a year?

I recommend re-reading some of the series that you “remember liking”. I have done it with a bunch of series, including some large ones like WoT and Malazan, and have gotten wayy more out of them after a second reading and at a later age, than I have reading a bunch of new sci fi and fantasy authors.

The bar to publish today has never been lower, so even though I still read a lot I don’t often recommend anything. Obviously there are a few stand outs, Andy Weir is a good example, the Expanse guys, etc. but they seem few and far between…

One thing that worked for me when I was struggling to find good new sci fi was to go back through Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominations and read anything I haven’t read before. Found some gems in there I had never heard of that stick with me.

Good luck with the search

Roger Zelazny - Book Of Amber Liu Cixin - Dark Forest trilogy David Weber - Honor series David Drake, lots of good series to choose from Timothy Zahn - again heaps of series

Ghouls n Goblins yo