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I am looking for scifi novels based on real scientific concepts, but with easy to follow plots and characters.

My English level is proficient in a professional setting, and I have no problem reading academic, medical or scientific articles in English.

I love watching documentaries on BBC, but I sometimes struggle watching dramas and sitcoms without subtitles.

I am mainly trying to find audio books that I can listen to while driving. I am half way through listening to Carl Sagan's Contact on audio, it is great and not too difficult because I've already watched the movie many times.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Delta V by Daniel Suarez is about asteroid mining in the near future.

Old time writer Poul Anderson has dozens of alien races and space merchants. "The War Of The Wing Men."

Robert A. Heinlein wrote a lot of YA novels that still hold up as stories. Obviously, there are going to be a lot of details he missed, but "Between Planets" is a good adventure story and "Tunnel In the Sky" is the original version of The Hunger Games.