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I've never read anything self published unless you count fan fiction as self publishing.
Besides, what DOESN'T count as an utter disaster to you (people in general)? Remember that BotNS is "about" a guy who is sent on an (epic) journey as an exile of his guild, and is pretty much a harem story when read on the surface. But nobody who has read it can wholeheartedly say it's a simple, shallow story.

What's the genre that's basically fantasy but is happening in space/planets and has science fiction elements?
Space opera?

Anyway I'm writing space opera because the one thing that I like more than balls to the wall fantasy is space travel and the effects of space upon the psyche. Nothing compares to the vastness of space, you can write all the good ol' northern frozen wastes, but you can't compare the wilderness with the sheer otherness of the space.
Besides, it's easier to explain weird ass sentient creatures than just "yeah these totally technologically superior not-elves just kinda evolved on the same continent as humans, for some reason"
Besides, I like to treat other planets almost as separate dimensions. They could just as well be.

Also, it's far more enjoyable and grounded to write technologies than magic. Wanna kill someone from a distance? Use a damn gun, not a fireball.

Also say I find a way to post it somewhere online and start shilling it, would you guys read it? It's unapologetic and I have as inspiration the good old 70s science fiction and fantasy novels.