There are so so many, but here’s some more off the beaten path suggestions:
I loved the Planetfall series, wish the author was still writing them.
Also the Semiosis series (just now seeing there’s a third book that I missed!)
dragonwheeleffect on
Semiosis by Sue Burke
GuruNihilo on
Not a series, but **The Legacy of Heorot** by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes is about first settlers arriving at a new planet.
It’s classified as horror, but I didn’t think so. The writing does have a definite change in style between the beginning and the ending; presumably where the work of one author was stitched to that of the others.
KMarieJ on
Janet Kagan’s Mirabile
Generation ships have colonized a planet, now they have to deal with the local flora and fauna – as well as what they brought with them.
poorwordchoices on
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy
Tunnel in the Sky
The Expanse series – book 4 is an off world colony, later books also have some of the theme, but less plot focus.
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Red rising
There are so so many, but here’s some more off the beaten path suggestions:
I loved the Planetfall series, wish the author was still writing them.
Also the Semiosis series (just now seeing there’s a third book that I missed!)
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Not a series, but **The Legacy of Heorot** by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes is about first settlers arriving at a new planet.
It’s classified as horror, but I didn’t think so. The writing does have a definite change in style between the beginning and the ending; presumably where the work of one author was stitched to that of the others.
Janet Kagan’s Mirabile
Generation ships have colonized a planet, now they have to deal with the local flora and fauna – as well as what they brought with them.
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy
Tunnel in the Sky
The Expanse series – book 4 is an off world colony, later books also have some of the theme, but less plot focus.