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I understand the desire to get more of a reading experience you know you liked. But I have to say discovering a new author who surprises you in a new direction is a bigger thrill for me. If you enjoyed the first contact subject matter in a book like Shogun, you can have that again but with surprises by reading either The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zooet by David Mitchell or in a sci fi format in Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow (which has a sequel, Children of God). Ms Russell's books involve first contact with an alien species on their own planet. The surprise is that there are two sentient species on that planet.