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Jack #McDevitt's #TheAcademy series is non-military
space #xeno-archaeology on doomed worlds usually done by space tourists on #Avenue5 style space yachts in the wrong place at the wrong time. Several stories connected in the timeline.

Stephen Baxter's #Xeelee series is HARD scifi #spaceopera.

Fredrik #Pohl's #HeeChee series (specifically #Gateway) inspired #TheExpanse.

It is said that engineers grow up to invent what science fiction they read as teenagers, i.e., Star Trek Spok's tricorder was the inspiration for the mobile phone.

The #ChatGPT is the closest thing I've ever seen to the regurgitated, recombined knowledge of the deceased, as described by Frederick Pohl in his #Heechee saga books, such as in "Heechee Rendezvous".

#scifi