Semiosis (2018)

Settlers arrive on Pax with plans for a cooperative community, then discover that survival requires negotiating with intelligences they barely recognise. Semiosis expands across generations; Interference and Usurpation carry the consequences into a completed trilogy. Burke makes the wider pattern ecological, involving different lifespans, ambitions and kinds of leverage. Begin with Semiosis and follow publication order. It is a particularly good choice when you want a settlement's practical compromises to grow into a larger argument about coexistence.