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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    1 year ago

    Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein. Though it is a very militaristic point of view that explores interesting societal topics as well as successes and failures of historical human governments. If you liked the training and world building of Ender’s Game, you might like this one.

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      1 year ago

      Another along those lines is John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. Humans are at about the same technological level as the other races in that series.

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      1 year ago

      On a side note, I love both the book and the movie for totally different reasons.

      There is only one movie. Maybe 1 movie, one animated series, and a game

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        1 year ago

        I agree! The movie is one of my favorite “good bad” movies. I haven’t seen the other 2 movies however, or the animation.