Hello all! I am just coming to the end of the fantastic Culture series by Iain M Banks and I am looking for recommendations for similar books/authors. I have also enjoyed James S A Corey's The Expanse books so if anyone has a good recommendation for similar sci-fi books it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I really liked Adrian Tchaikovsky's stuff. Particularily "Children of Time" and a lot of his standalone novels like "Alien Clay", "Shroud", and "Service Model".

Another good book that explores truly alien aliens is "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge. I really like how a lot of concepts are presented in a way that initially lets you sort of figure out whats going on before too much exposition is used to clarify alien ideas.

Finally, I need to recommend David Brin's books, like the uplift trilogies or oven his weirder stuff like Kiln People. He does a good job of establishing a technology or social convention and building a world around it.

[–] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago

"Children of Time" surprised me quite a bit. It was a gift from a family member. One of those "oh...they like sci-fi..." kind of gifts. And it was really good.