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

submitted 1 year ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speaker For the Dead is one of my favorite books of all time, which is exactly this concept.

I highly recommend reading Ender's Game first, which is also an easy read.

The author won two Hugo awards for two books in a row (I think the first ever), but only wrote Ender's Game to flesh out the backstory for Speaker for the Dead.

Both excellent books with the latter particularly so.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, that was the book I had in mind for such a sub-genre (I mention it in the original post).