> If there is one thing I have realized after reading quite a few science fiction books, it is that I don't want to live in any one them - not one.

I find this suprising kinda. If I got a choice right now, there's a bunch of dystopian Scifi that I would instantly go for (out of sheer curiosity), e.g. the Murderbot universe.

Are there fantasy worlds that you would want to live in? I feel this is a bit of a suspect benchmark in the first place because books typically want some kind of tension/conflict which you won't get if everyone is just gratefully living their best life.

Alan Dean Foster created some very appealing universes.