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Thanks! I did read 'The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet' a while ago, but didn't know where to continue with Becky Chambers. I will take a look at that one.

True! I think the depictions of daily life in the Culture was what I enjoyed the most in Banks books.

The whole Hainish Cycle from Ursula K Le Guin may fit here, in the sense that all human-like 'aliens' are the offsprings of the colonies planted by a primitive human civilization.