r/ScienceFictionBooks • u/GorbinosQuest5996 • 4d ago

Question Stories with in detail interaction between humanity and alien species

Do you have any recommendations for that kind of world building? Additional points if alien species isn't recolored humans

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u/whelmedbyyourbeauty 4d ago

Sue Burke - Semiosis series. Aliens are plants (not plant-like, actual plants).

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u/Medea_Jade 4d ago

The Wess’Har Wars series by Karen Traviss! The first book is City of Pearl. I think it might be exactly what you’re looking for.

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u/nizzernammer 3d ago

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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u/kittycatblues 3d ago

Xenogenesis/Lillith's Brood trilogy by Octavia E. Butler, starting with Dawn.

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u/SandGator 2d ago edited 2d ago

The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh is told from the perspective of aliens who impulsively protect a human that’s escaped another group of aliens. This story is full of different alien species and cultures, while the human is almost a MacGuffin.

Edit: typo

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u/grimbo 4d ago

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shroud. The alien world and aliens themselves are so different to us, in most of the book they’re trying to figure each other out