Re: (ReacTor) Five Entertaining SFF Stories With Relatively Low Stakes

On 7/31/24 10:06 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Entertaining SFF Stories With Relatively Low Stakes
 The whole world doesn't need to be in imminent danger for a story to
be compelling, as these more personal adventures demonstrate...
 https://reactormag.com/five-entertaining-sff-stories-with-relatively-low-stakes/

Interesting topic - I do indeed get "end of the world" fatigue sometimes in my reading.
I've read the Leiber, and I am thinking I need to pick up the Baldree and Lee.
Just a few that come to my mind:
I don't recall that any of Hughart's Master Li and Number Ten Ox stories have very high stakes for the world at large.
Same for Williams' Drake Maijstral stories (which I now see are already mentioned in the comments).[1]
Most (all?) of Cook's Garrett stories fit here as well.
And a great many of Vance's works focus on a protagonist and his personal trials and tribulations.
Tony
[1] As are the Ethshar stories that also came to mind.