Recommend me some sci-fi!

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24. Sprawling, Serious But W Great Humor,and fabulous aliens, and cool humans....

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I m h o some of The Best SF, ever is David Brin's Uplift Universe series. Very inventive non-hominid aliens, complex political and warring stuff. Vast galactic (even multi-galactic) intrigue, and ancient mysteries. He's an Astrophysicist so has got some serious cred for building vast scenarios.

Universe building on the grandest scale while creating great characters, and interesting interactions good, bad, complex. And humor is sprinkled all through out.

Start with the stand alone Sundiver. Humans, and multi-species take a dive into our sun in a tough, relatively small Space (& Sun) Craft.

Wild discoveries, and intrigue abound! Takes place about 100 years before the main duology, then trilogy.

My mom brought home a paperback copy for me from a library sale. Hooked ever since!

Some of us are still waiting for (w fading hopes) that he'll go back and finish some fascinating, and major loose ends; (while having finished up other strands.
Arrggg, gggrrrrrrr, sigh.

Another stand alone of his is Existence. A spack junk removal man snags, and brings close to his camera an ovoid object with a mysterious internal glow, that becones increasingly intriguing to the point of incredulity as he descends in his Craft back to Earth.

The book is interspersed w chapters of how our existence as humans can be snuffed out through various natural, but more so our own doings.
When I reread I skip all that.