[xeonax]

The Wandering Inn [1], Stories of an alternate world somehow connected to a certain innkeeper of the said inn.

Features extensive world building, character building, Lots of fleshed out characters, contains humour as well as serious stuff, has dragons, fae, aliens, time travel, hiveminds, automatons, cute pets, cosmic horrors, history lessons, magic, alchemy and steampunk engineering.

It's a bit longish and not finished yet, 2/3 done as of this year.

[1]: https://wanderinginn.com/

[aidenn0]

I'm only on the second volume, but so far I wouldn't call it Sci-Fi; it's pretty much straight-up fantasy (specifically a portal-fantasy with string LitRPG elements) so far.

I suppose there could be a "It's all a VR game" or "It's alien mind control" twist that I haven't gotten to yet.

[codetheweb]

I love the Wandering Inn but calling it “a bit longish” is quite an understatement.

[xeonax]

Ok it's a bit longer, only a little bit.

See for yourself https://www.reddit.com/r/WanderingInn/comments/wil9pi/word_c...

[aidenn0]

OT, but I'm legitimately surprised that WoT is longer than the saga of recluse.

I'm also a very mildly annoyed that they included several era-spanning series on the list, but limited Dragonlance to the chronicles trillogy, despite that including followups by the original authors (Legends, Second generations).

[kinow]

I learned about TWI and pirate aba some months ago, and binge-read the whole series non-stop.