/lit/ - Literature

>>16357398
Planetes is quite good and doesn't follow the tropes that you (sensibly) shy away from. It's from the era of anime that still produced works for a mature perspective.
As for interplanetary fiction, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is good if terraforming would be of interest. I'm drawing a blank at the moment if what you want is strictly asteroid mining and planetoid outposts.

Not to gang up on Conanons but I did start the collection a couple of years ago and had to give up during the first story. The descriptions of Conan and his motions were obsessive and offputting. REH was either homosexual or was writing an idealized /fit/ inflation of himself.