Hi! I wanna read books about space and aliens! But I want to make some things clear:
– I don’t care much about human vs human conflict
– I’d prefer it to be more of attempting to make contact with aliens, or coming face to face with them
– alien biology and culture big plus!!
Things I’m not looking for:
– “spice”. Just not in the mood. Romance is fine, even a little spice is fine!! I just don’t want Ice Planet Barbarians or anything similar.
– alien war or any human space war. It can be mentioned in the background, but not wanting to read battle scenes.
Movies that I like to help:
– Arrival
– Interstellar (this is more so space and such)
– Contact
– The Aliens movies
I like creepy, I like horror, I like the ideas of the alien being hostile to humans. I like more educational or even wholesome interactions. Anything really, as far as overall feel or theme of the book. I’m just not wanting Star Wars level of combat, or IPB level of spice. I have watched Three Body Problem and read the first book, working on the second, and I liked those a lot! I basically love thinking about the concept of making contact with aliens and what that could mean.
by isaboss
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Dawn by Octavia Butler sounds perfect for you
So, a **phenomenal** book that centers around human/alien interaction, with a couple instances of *violence* but not war, is *Speaker for the Dead* by Orson Scott Card.
>I basically love thinking about the concept of making contact with aliens and what that could mean.
That’s addressed head on in Speaker for the Dead.
Do note, though, Speaker for the Dead is the sequel to *Ender’s Game*, which is mainly about kids training to fight a war against an alien race in the future. You can definitely read SFTD without reading Ender’s Game, but there will be a handful of things that you’ll kind of have to just accept without really understanding. I think SFTD is a class better than Ender’s Game, but both are really worthwhile reads (though I always note: Card has personal views that a lot of people, myself included, find problematic – I’m a big separate-art-from-artist guy, but just worth noting. For the most part, those views do *not* come through in at least his most famous works.)
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Diamond Dogs by Alastair Reynolds
I haven’t read it yet, but from the description, it sounds like James SA Corey’s The Mercy of Gods is also what you’re looking for, and I loved their Expanse series.