I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
Not exactly a 'classic' by most standards, but I'm rather fond of David Brin's Uplift universe.
Humanity (literally) accidentally stumbles into a huge civilization spanning multiple galaxies and immediately makes waves because they appear to have evolved sapience unaided (which is essentially unheard of in this universe) and by virtue of what they've already done prior to this they inherently have higher status than many races that have been around in this civilization for millions of years. On top of that, many of the most powerful races quite simply don't get along at all (there's one big religion that almost everyone follows which relates to the origins of this civilization, but it's fragmented to a degree that makes modern Christianity look monolithic in comparison). Most of the stories focus on events surrounding a major discovery by a Terran survey ship that completely upends a number of established aspects of the 'world order' (more so than the appearance of Humanity did).
It's significantly more serious than Pratchett or Adams, but still very good.
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Not exactly a 'classic' by most standards, but I'm rather fond of David Brin's Uplift universe.
Humanity (literally) accidentally stumbles into a huge civilization spanning multiple galaxies and immediately makes waves because they appear to have evolved sapience unaided (which is essentially unheard of in this universe) and by virtue of what they've already done prior to this they inherently have higher status than many races that have been around in this civilization for millions of years. On top of that, many of the most powerful races quite simply don't get along at all (there's one big religion that almost everyone follows which relates to the origins of this civilization, but it's fragmented to a degree that makes modern Christianity look monolithic in comparison). Most of the stories focus on events surrounding a major discovery by a Terran survey ship that completely upends a number of established aspects of the 'world order' (more so than the appearance of Humanity did).
It's significantly more serious than Pratchett or Adams, but still very good.