* The Snow Queen trilogy by Joan D. Vinge. Space opera on the scale of Dune, but not about war. It’s been quite a few years since I read them, but I’m pretty sure there’s no war.
* The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. You can read these in any order. They are very much down to earth stories, just set in a fantastical sci fi future.
* Grass by Sheri S. Tepper. Similar to Dune, this book is very critical of organized religion as a tool of social control. There’s no war, but there are big politics and lots of characters. I’m currently reading the sequel Raising the Stones and it feels like it’s written in a more similar way to the Dune books than Grass was.
* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. A great classic in its own right, and philosophically the opposite of Dune. It’s also part of a series which can be read in any order, but some of the books contain war. This one does not.
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Hmm, here are some:
* The Snow Queen trilogy by Joan D. Vinge. Space opera on the scale of Dune, but not about war. It’s been quite a few years since I read them, but I’m pretty sure there’s no war.
* The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. You can read these in any order. They are very much down to earth stories, just set in a fantastical sci fi future.
* Grass by Sheri S. Tepper. Similar to Dune, this book is very critical of organized religion as a tool of social control. There’s no war, but there are big politics and lots of characters. I’m currently reading the sequel Raising the Stones and it feels like it’s written in a more similar way to the Dune books than Grass was.
* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. A great classic in its own right, and philosophically the opposite of Dune. It’s also part of a series which can be read in any order, but some of the books contain war. This one does not.