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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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[–] Firipu@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The culture series? It's not outright said they're human, but they're clearly human. And they outscale basically every single thing in the universe. Or at least in the first few books. Might change later.

[–] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In Excession it felt more like

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The Culture is a race of intelligent starships that keeps humans as pets.

[–] that_one_guy@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

This is absolutely the right take on The Culture.

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