@bookstodon@andreaslindholm@lunalein I still find the Vernor Vinge books now marketed as Zones Of Thought mind-blowing. They are not a series and don’t have to be read in order, but A Fire Upon the Deep is the first. Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, and CJ Cherryh, in their different ways, all really tried hard to think past their own cultures.
(I’ve just told someone else I like my generation’s writers best, but these are all from the one above me)