I’m new to science fiction and am hooked on character-driven stories. Are there any that someone could recommend — in novels, short stories or authors? thanks!
Becky Chambers’ **The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet** has a construction spaceship crewed with a found-family of multiple species travel across the galaxy to a new job. Most of the plot is interactions between the crew and incidents that happen along the way.
Hatherence on
Here’s a few!
* The author Tad Williams writes character driven stories. He mostly writes fantasy, but he has written one sci fi series, the [Otherland series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43762-otherland).
* The author C. J. Cherryh has written a mountain of both sci fi and fantasy, all character driven. One of her more famous ones is Downbelow Station. I also recommend the [Chanur series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40818-chanur).
* Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott is a book I’ve seen described as character driven, but not as strongly as the two authors above. I have not yet read anything else by this author, but she did write a lot of sci fi.
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The Murderbot Diaries feature a cyborg character who goes through a lot of growth in terms of friendships and emotions! 🙂
MorriganJade on
I second Martha Wells and Becky Chambers
Kindred or Wild seed or Xenogenesis by Octavia Butler
Do androids dream of electric sheep by Philip Dick
cbonkov on
It’s pretty soft sci-fi (if not more fantasy), but there’s some *incredibly* good character work in *The Rook* by Daniel O’Malley. The protagonist, Myfanwy Thomas, has lost her memory, and the book handles that far better (and with a far better emotional payoff) than almost any other story I’ve read with that premise~
AdLife8436 on
The Space Adventures Of Commander Laine. The characters are just awesome. It was written by, Beckie Veronica Laine.
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Becky Chambers’ **The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet** has a construction spaceship crewed with a found-family of multiple species travel across the galaxy to a new job. Most of the plot is interactions between the crew and incidents that happen along the way.
Here’s a few!
* The author Tad Williams writes character driven stories. He mostly writes fantasy, but he has written one sci fi series, the [Otherland series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43762-otherland).
* The author C. J. Cherryh has written a mountain of both sci fi and fantasy, all character driven. One of her more famous ones is Downbelow Station. I also recommend the [Chanur series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40818-chanur).
* Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott is a book I’ve seen described as character driven, but not as strongly as the two authors above. I have not yet read anything else by this author, but she did write a lot of sci fi.
The Murderbot Diaries feature a cyborg character who goes through a lot of growth in terms of friendships and emotions! 🙂
I second Martha Wells and Becky Chambers
Kindred or Wild seed or Xenogenesis by Octavia Butler
Do androids dream of electric sheep by Philip Dick
It’s pretty soft sci-fi (if not more fantasy), but there’s some *incredibly* good character work in *The Rook* by Daniel O’Malley. The protagonist, Myfanwy Thomas, has lost her memory, and the book handles that far better (and with a far better emotional payoff) than almost any other story I’ve read with that premise~
The Space Adventures Of Commander Laine. The characters are just awesome. It was written by, Beckie Veronica Laine.