Of course, not every sci-fi work is so old, so storied, so action-packed. Sometimes it's more about just trying to live your life while living in the future.
SATURN APARTMENTS (Dosei Mansion), by Hisae Iwaoka. First published in 2005 and first published in North America in 2010.
PLOT:
At some point in the future, humanity abandoned Earth so it could become a planet-wide wildlife refuge. Now humans are confined to a massive space station drifting through the upper atmosphere and the lower on the socio-economic scale you are, the less sunlight you get to see. Those precious windows are expensive to wash, and it's done by people like Mitsu.
Mitsu is an apprentice window-washer straight out of school. His father was also a window-washer, but he died mysteriously on the job. It's up to cranky old man Jin to teach him, as Mitsu learns to appreciate all the details of his work and the people he meets.
