I’m looking for sci-fi novels that are more soft sci-fi and explore different social ideas. Explanations of technology loses me. I really just want some people in space with some aliens.
Similar books that I’ve read are The Left Hand of Darkness & The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, and I’m about to finish Embassytown by China Mieville. Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life is great too.
I’ve tried Dawn by Octavia Butler but it lost me in the middle.
I just need something to look forward to after finishing Embassytown lol because I don’t want it to end!!
by Sweaty-Discipline746
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Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
Have you looked at the *Fifth Season* trilogy by NK Jemisin?
In a way it reminds me of Le Guin in that the details of the science (in this case geology as much as anything) is sort of irrelevant. It’s all there as a tool/excuse for Jemisin to explore issues relating to power, responsibility, and the abdication thereof.
Not “people in space with aliens”, but you might find it interesting.
The Expanse Series by James SA Corey is really character/Social forward (not really aliens though) same with The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers (Yes aliens. Lots of them)
CJ Cherryh. Cuckoo’s Egg is an excellent standalone but the Chanur Saga is my favorite from her.