Book Club on Yik Yak | Does anyone know any good sci fi books with interesting depictions of alien races? I find aliens a really interesting topic and I’m hoping to find something that goes into an in depth exploration of what an alien might be like (not just little green men)

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Book Club 1d

Does anyone know any good sci fi books with interesting depictions of alien races? I find aliens a really interesting topic and I’m hoping to find something that goes into an in depth exploration of what an alien might be like (not just little green men)

Anonymous 1d

Basic answer but project Hail Mary has unicellular alien lifeforms. Tbh that’s the only kind of “alien” I think could exist in real life

Anonymous 1d

I just read Dawn by Octavia Butler it heavily features aliens and they're really weird and creepy

Anonymous 1d

The Mercy of Gods by the author who did the Expanse series is doing some interesting things with this.

Anonymous 1d

TRANSLATION STATE BY ANN LECKIE look I know I always rec her books but Oh My God the worldbuilding of various cultures - alien and not - is absolutely amazing from a prosaic and from a practical perspective

Anonymous 1d

It’s an old comic book series, but alien legion is super cool for this topic. It has an in depth explanation of each character’s species before the story even begins and really tries to be out there when it comes to character design and incorporation

Anonymous 12h

The three body problem, Embassy town, and the Mote in God’s eye

Anonymous 9h

The Children of Time - praised for intelligent spiders, but the second book has true aliens

Anonymous

#4 1d

In the same vein, Provenance (also by Ann Leckie) deals heavily with the idea of how humans that have been raised/adopted into alien cultures might affect sci-fi politics and cultural-sociopolitical ramifications