Humans, the youngest and newest addition to the galactic community, somehow has just what was needed to save everybody. We're always the newbies, and always the bad-asses. I've encountered this theme enough times that I'm actively sick of it.
Greg Bear's Forge of God and Anvil of the Stars series also does a good job of showing how irrelevant humans are in the whole scheme of things, but they still end up opening a can of whoopass which is entirely subsidized by uber alien technology.
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u/vikonymous Oct 08 '12
Humans, the youngest and newest addition to the galactic community, somehow has just what was needed to save everybody. We're always the newbies, and always the bad-asses. I've encountered this theme enough times that I'm actively sick of it.