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Looking for books where an alien/ancient/unexplainable structure is explored (feddit.org)
submitted 9 hours ago by viertesauge@feddit.org to c/books@lemmy.world
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I am looking for books similar to "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft(ive pretty much read everything from lovecraft), "Eversion" by Alastair Reynolds, "Das Eulentor" by Alexander Gruber (dont know if this book ever released in another language), "The Hollow Places" by T. Kingfisher, I also tried reading "Ascension" by Nicholas Binge but it wasnt really to my taste. Hope you have some ideas. thx in advance

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Iain M. Banks created a whole universal alien system called "The Culture" which are mostly sentient machines. Also woven in is how humans evolved. There are several books of his that exist in the universe of "The Culture". I haven't read his stuff in a while but remember being intrigued while reading them.

[–] viertesauge@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Will check them him out. thanks.

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

I was going to recommend him as well. The book Matter is centered around an impossibly old alien megastructure that various new alien civilizations are now living in.