Max Kidruk - Colony. The New Dark Ages
Dunno if it was or ever will be translated into english. It’s a hard sci-fi book about challenges of established and semi-autonomous martian colony and other problems and challenges earth-side. It was great, if a bit longer than I prefer.
Last english language one was “Matt Dinamon - Dungeon Crawler Carl” great humor, somewhat unexpected story.
40 years ago they didn’t sell them by millions with each copy cost being a few cents. It’s price gouging simple as.