u/EmpyrealJadeite

I watched the martian a few weeks ago, immediately became one of my favorite movies, then I read the book and it and it was even better, before reading it I looked up reviews and saw somebody say it was incredibly boring and reads like a manual, which I thought was amusing and only made me more interested in reading it, I really liked the problem solving, and it didn't dumb down the explanations too much.

I'm looking for more books like that, I saw some other posts similar to this but a lot had different focuses than I do so I wanted to make my own.

I'm mainly looking for sci-fi but if you have some less conventional recommendations please go ahead.

I haven't played RP-1 yet, I'm still learning stock and having fun with it, but I've been keeping an eye on Mike Aben's series (not watching it to avoid "spoilers"), and he's roughly 113 hours(and that's after however much he edits the videos) into it and only now interacting with the moon, is that standard? I saw he interacted with planes a lot and I've seen people on this sub saying they skipped planes I think? So maybe that factors in, I don't know.

Edit: I'm aware that it takes much longer in game time, I was referring to real time.

So if the oberth effect means the best place to do a burn(specifically prograde/retrograde?) is the lowest point in the orbit (I still don't grasp why) then how come when I'm in a very high orbit it seems like I don't need much ∆v to change my orbit drastically, like it's super easy to go from around the mun's altitude back into Kerbin's atmosphere, but shouldn't my burns get less and less efficient the higher I get?