**The Mote in God’s Eye** by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
**The Gods Themselves** by Isaac Asimov.
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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Ringworld by Larry Niven
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The Little Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper is along those lines.
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The Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson does this well, although more so in the sequels than in the first book
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*The Sparrow* by Mary Doria Russell
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The Uplift War.
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CJ Cherryh’s Chanur books.
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A long way to a small, angry planet
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A number of Iain M. Banks novels feature interestingly imagined alien races. The first that comes to mind is The Algebraist. The main character is human, although not from Earth, but spends most of the book among a species that lives inside a gas giant planet and has a very distinctive culture.
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Becoming Alien by Rebecca Orr.
**The Mote in God’s Eye** by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
**The Gods Themselves** by Isaac Asimov.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Ringworld by Larry Niven
The Little Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper is along those lines.
The Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson does this well, although more so in the sequels than in the first book
*The Sparrow* by Mary Doria Russell
The Uplift War.
CJ Cherryh’s Chanur books.
A long way to a small, angry planet
A number of Iain M. Banks novels feature interestingly imagined alien races. The first that comes to mind is The Algebraist. The main character is human, although not from Earth, but spends most of the book among a species that lives inside a gas giant planet and has a very distinctive culture.
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