Any sort of encounters/fiction between two different groups reacting to one another
Basically I want to see you recomend me some culture clashes.
The worldwar Books are the best example I could hope for.
"Seasons" by Joe Haldeman
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>>241951
Blindsight by Peter Watts.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge.
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks.
Contact by Carl Sagan.
The Host by Stephenie Meyer.
The Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven.
>>242060
>Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks.
> shape-changing spy slowly defects from the Idiran side to the Culture
how is that a first contact story?
>>242450
Excession, Player of Games or State of the Art would probably be better, but the Culture has a long and glorious history of making first contact under special circumstances.
>>242450
>how is that a first contact story?
Wasn't explicit by OP.
Here is another: Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.