Hello all! I am just coming to the end of the fantastic Culture series by Iain M Banks and I am looking for recommendations for similar books/authors. I have also enjoyed James S A Corey’s The Expanse books so if anyone has a good recommendation for similar sci-fi books it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies.
Anything from Peter F Hamilton’s Commonwealth saga.
The Saga of Seven Suns by Kevin J Anderson.
I’ll think of more.
I really liked Adrian Tchaikovsky’s stuff. Particularily “Children of Time” and a lot of his standalone novels like “Alien Clay”, “Shroud”, and “Service Model”.
Another good book that explores truly alien aliens is “A Fire Upon the Deep” by Vernor Vinge. I really like how a lot of concepts are presented in a way that initially lets you sort of figure out whats going on before too much exposition is used to clarify alien ideas.
Finally, I need to recommend David Brin’s books, like the uplift trilogies or oven his weirder stuff like Kiln People. He does a good job of establishing a technology or social convention and building a world around it.
“Children of Time” surprised me quite a bit. It was a gift from a family member. One of those “oh…they like sci-fi…” kind of gifts. And it was really good.
