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What's science fiction without the machines? (leminal.space)

submitted 1 month ago by infinite_ass@leminal.space to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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I mean, we could speculate and explore the strange future and stuff. Just without that tired trope of "well, science and technology progressed a bunch and then we got this really great machine".

I mean there's gotta be another way. Examples?

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[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Alan Dean Foster has a series (Humanx Commonwealth) starting with Midworld. No special machines in the first 4.

Cachelot is excellent and is about sentient space cetaceans after forming a treaty with humans.

Midworld is basically Avatar.

Nor Crystal Tears is about the Thranx side of meeting Aliens (humankind) in first contact.

Sentenced to Prism is about the concepts of non-carbon life forms.

Must books cover elements of humanity and what is humanity.