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Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race? (lemmings.world)

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What the title says, I'm tired of the trope where humans are the least advanced in the universe.

I'd like to read something different where we're the more advanced ones (not necessarily the most advanced). As an example I quite enjoyed the Ender's Game sequels and the angle of us being the more advanced ones was quite interesting.

Do you have any recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

David Weber’s Honorverse and Mother of Demons by Eric Flint both come to mind. There is also the Little Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper.

Edit: Also, The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Honorable mention also to Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward (humans start out more advanced in the beginning but get surpassed) and the Uplift Storm trilogy omnibus (or books 4-6) from David Brin (humans aren’t the most advanced in the entire universe but are in the planet that the stories take place on).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think that I've checked all the comments but I didn't see any sign of Jack Vance's "Planet of Adventure"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Forever Wars, maybe. There are aliens but they're not really the focus of the book.

We Are Legion, We Are Bob has less advanced alien races but also a more advanced race. The more advanced race doesn't show up in the first book IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Slight caveat, i haven't read the book yet but from what I've heard The Culture fits that description

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We all know humankind would annihilate any inferior species we found elsewhere in the galaxy so we could steal their planets resources (and maybe eat them).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

honestly, that seems unlikely to me. uninhabited planets are abundant for resources, so we wouldnt really care about going for the very rare planet with intelligent life that poses ethical issues or some risk of fighting back, unless we were literally trying to use every scrap of matter in the galaxy which is bit more efficient and methodical than humans tend to be. Probably unlikely that theyd be biochemically similar enough to be safe to eat for that matter, beyond that most people would probably find that gross.

What I could see though is humans or some faction of humans thinking something along the lines of "they might be less advanced now, but someday they might surpass us or be a threat, so we should destroy/conquer/assimilate them while we have the advantage"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

No, we don't know any of that.

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