I’ve just finished the latest expeditionary force book and I still have a few days left on vacation so looking for more. It’s my absolute favourite series by far.
I enjoy modern books about present time-ish humans exploring the unknown, with explanations to the science behind things, whilst not getting too deep into politics or personal relationships/history/drama. I’m not a big fan of the star wars/trek style aliens that live alongside humans, it always seems a bit far fetched to me (parts of exfor are like this, tho the senior species which exist are alright I guess, but the elders are really interesting, the outsiders even more so.). A little humour is welcome too.
I also loved project hail Mary recently as it was all discovery start to finish, no drama and a little humour. The Martian doesn’t really appeal to me because there’s no discovery (only seen the movie though).
Here’s some more examples with pros/cons for me:
3 body – too slow, too much drama/politics/history
Expanse – too much politics/drama but loved the hard sci-fi and exploration.
Academy series – loved the exploration but too much drama/history
Bobiverse – first two books were good because of the unknowns, later two were full of drama.
Shards of earth – only one book so far, liked the unknown but not the politics
Children of time – loved the science but found the last two books a bit slow/heavy and a bit too much drama.
If anyone has any recommendations I’d love to hear them.
by kzaji
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You can try The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet