colonization sci fi series/books?

[Sue]

I just finished Allen Steele's "Coyote" series and have also read Larry Niven's "Legacy of the Heorot" & Beowulf's Children". Does anyone have suggestions for more colonization books or series? I'm not so much interested in books about a station on one of this solar system planets but man going to other stars and settling there on earthlike planets. I'd love to find another series like the "Coyote" books.

[Nick]

Andre Norton's Forerunner series is a very early example of colonization stories.

Ann MacCaffrey has a few as well, including her Dragon Riders of Pern series.

[Dylan]

Decision at Doona by Anne McCaffrey
Darkover Landfall by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

[Sue]

Thanks for the suggestions

[Laz]

Does CJ Cherryh's Foreigner series count? If yes, then you've got more than 10 books to read. Also Forty Thousand in Gehenna would be good.

[Carolyn]

I have a shelf called science fiction-colonization, if you want to check it out. Has 30+ books, too many to list here, but some really good ones, like The Worthing Saga.

[Álvaro]

I am Reading the Mars series by Kim Stanley robinson, starting with

Good hard sci-fi!

[Esther]

I recently finished The Seeds of Earth which I really enjoyed. Good world-building and great characters. It's a brick but was a quick read.

[Marjorie]

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[Nick]

This is kind of a colonization book a number of years later and deals with the unexpected dangers of a planet missing certain key minerals Humans need for proper function

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Both deal with colonization after a century of cold sleep that goes poorly for some key members and disrupting an ecology with negative effects.

[Scott]

I'm just about finished this, which is very good:

[Mary]

Helm by Steven Gould.

I particularly like it because the prologue is all laying plans.

Into the chapters, it jumps forward -- generations -- and lo and behold all those plans hit reality.

[Laz]

If you don't mind a lot of sex, this is an interesting story of a colony ship that crash-lands on the wrong planet: The Last Hour of Gann. It's pretty long too.