I liked Bujold's Sharing Knife series, which may be enough of a non-space-opera-with-romantic-overtones that you'd like it?
BTW, I'm nearly through the three Scalzi books you gave me for my birthday! I've done more reading-for-pleasure this summer than in perhaps the previous two years combined...
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Date: 2009-08-09 07:23 pm (UTC)BTW, I'm nearly through the three Scalzi books you gave me for my birthday! I've done more reading-for-pleasure this summer than in perhaps the previous two years combined...