Wait! These stories continue? I thought it was entirely stand alone all this time! I'm going to have to do a bit more of the "post-reading", "Reading", when I am done with my new book.
I just started on "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
After that, I'm going to need to track down "Speaker for the Dead" then "Xenocide". I hope my library has them! I just checked, and sadly they don't. They have the 5th book in the series, though...
I only read the first three. Been meaning to finish it. I want to tell you about what was so fascinating about each book but any details might spoil it. All I’ll say is that each one seems to focus on a different species.