/lit/ - Literature

I'm in the mood for a good sci-fi, are there any you anons found that explored clash of civilisations in a unique way? The distance between worlds is bound to cause deep rifts in thinking, but in a lot of works and all these differences don't really drive the plot and instead are pretty shallow

Keep in mind, this is off the back of watching The Expanse, and that series is the opposite of hopeful; got me thinking about
>authoritarian regimes that are deeply petrified of space terrorism
>gene editing embraced on some planets but shunned elsewhere
>Planetary feudal estates
>The weird but familiar things that might lurk out there (the worlds might be different but all the physics is the same like)