Frankly, that’s looking like paradise to most of us at this point. The kvetching of Gen X staring at an IKEA catalogue has become a dystopian dream for Millennials on up.
Show me a world where my kid has to worry about a Stormtrooper and not a school shooter. I’ll take it.
This is a little higher price but only because the quality is likely on the cheaper end. Cheap is around $15 USD. Average and decently made is about $35. Nice is ~$50-65.
Great doc maintained on various reading order preferences here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Eual8pX2RqwNcA2f4WuwjiNxRA5CGG61VzlaWqzGNI
For Succession Wars I’d suggest starting with the Gray Markets Anthology. It doesn’t hold your hand and tell you everything that’s going on, but you will tacitly gain information from these stories that will help in later books. Plus they’re all just great stories.
When you're ugly, there is something you can do, called "fuck the world and be real cool.”