What the title says, I’m tired of the trope where humans are the least advanced in the universe.

I’d like to read something different where we’re the more advanced ones (not necessarily the most advanced). As an example I quite enjoyed the Ender’s Game sequels and the angle of us being the more advanced ones was quite interesting.

Do you have any recommendations?

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    Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. While humans are not the most advanced species in the galaxy, the books deal with the interaction between humans and vastly inferior (but absolutely fascinating) alien races.

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      The main race in A Fire Upon the Deep is the one I most adore using as a sales pitch for scifi.

      I’m going to read that again when I’m soon done with chewing through the Man-Kzin Wars books.

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        Why, if I may ask? I had trouble keeping reading about halfway through, when I learned about the antagonist’s character and methods (too brutal even for a fiction book, and he became one of my most hated fictional characters ever), but I also heard of people who aren’t too fond of spiders and had to put the book down. In that case, Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time wouldn’t be for them, either.