What are some good scifi books that focus primarily on humanity's first steps in interstellar travel, colonization and discovering the unknown in a time where space flight is still dangerous? I.e. not some high-flying space opera bullshit.
>>8403391
Lem's stories about Pilot Pirx.
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Foundation Trilogy.
>>8403504
That's not like what OP wants at all.
Edward Elmer Smith's Skylark Series
>>8403394
Fuck off nerd. The general is terrible for getting recs beyond the superficial. He's more like to get a response in a thread that night only get a dozen responses.
CS Lewis's Space Trilogy does this. Sadly it's not a sub genre that receives much attention.
I think Martian Chronicles comes close to what you're looking for, but I haven't read it so idk.
>>8405530
Marian Chronicles is bullshit
2001 comes to mind.
>>8403391
KSR's Red Mars. It's not the most exotic as regards exploration, but nothing in hard-sci really is.
>>8403504
Not foundation but the robots trilogy, that's exactly what anon wants.
>>8406289
Martian Chronicles are at least nicely written if very early (and therefore very unrealistic). In the same vein, if you can stomach Heinlein you could do Farmer in the Sky or Double Star. Also the Mars Trilogy might be up your alley.
Nemesis by Asimov
Not interstellar but maybe The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?