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Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race?
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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How you are viewing the book is incredibly valid.
The one way that I have come up with to describe a potential reason for the way the story is portrayed is this:
The ENTIRE series is from the perspective of a die hard semi-introverted software engineer and HUGE NERD who has this deep-seated need of just wanting to help and make things better.
Taking that into account everything written kind of states to make sense.
I love the series and it goes to some VERY interesting places.
There is one warning to give. At a certain point the book starts to suffer from scale creep. The characters are already able to do "X" so we need an enemy that can do "X+Y+Z" so now character learns to do "X+Y+Z TIME 10²“. At a certain point it's best to just stop worrying about the explanations and just enjoy the story.
Highly recommend.
deep-seated
I fully blame autocorrect for that.
TBH this makes it sound a lot like Ready Player One which I thought was quite bad, and I was getting similar sort of over-laden with pop culture references vibe here as well, but I'm willing to get it a bit more of a shot I think.