antimagic

Those are my favourite two Ursula Le Guin novels too :) Very well thought-through effects of technology on culture.

Those are my favourite two Ursula Le Guin novels too :) Very well thought-through effects of technology on culture.

Another Liven and Purnell novel, Footfall, does probably the best job of describing a realistic militaristic exploitation of space that I have read.

You might try Mordant's Need by Stephen Donaldson for a fantasy-skinned, scifi-like approach.

You might try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legacy_of_Heorot - unlike most of the books down by Niven and Purnell, this one tries to keep the science realistic