The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells is a collection of short books in the first perspective of a cyborg. You might enjoy that.

You could wear your Apple Vision Pro on the date and use Tinder AI to get live prompts like a modern Cyrano de Bergerac.

If you liked IT, have you read through King’s Dark Tower series? One of my favorites and what got me into King originally. The universe of DT is what’s behind his other works, which makes it all the more interesting.