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Originally Posted by Rbneader
Ah. You don't like science fantasy, you want hard sci-fi. Star Wars and Transformers aren't representative of all extra-planetary sci-fi by a long shot.
There's a lot of hard extraplanetary sci-fi that sticks with realistic laws of physics (if not quite the laws we know). Looking at recommendations for hard science fiction might be a good place to start.
Andre Norton's Time Traders series is set in fairly realistic modern times, where people have found alien technology that they don't quite understand and are trying to investigate. There's a lot of parts where inexplicable things happen, but it's mostly because they were trying to do things without understanding their tools. I thought it was a good take on what might happen if people found alien technology, but how realistic you'll find it might vary. It was definitely more realistic than Star Wars.
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Robert L. Forward's novels "Dragon's Egg" and "Starquake" are based in the real world as well. It deals in part with a 1st contact situation where the aliens are beings who live on the surface of a neutron star.