I really liked Jo Walton's The Just City series for this, as well as Vernor Vinge's Children of the Sky and most of http://qntm.org 's fiction. What are your favorites?
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(The Just City is great because it conveys a culture where real people try to live up to the ideals of Classical Greek philosophy, in a way that would seem naively idealistic in our current world, but actually came across as compelling and believable in the novels.)
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(Hard SF like Vinge or qntm rarely gets praised for its characterization, and it's subtle, but often it depicts a social context where *most* of the on-screen characters are helpful, constructive, thoughtful, and realistic, and take this for granted as normal behavior.)
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I've written sci-fi. It's very difficult to create a realistic character. Readers love overdetermined characters, but real-life people are not overdetermined. We have lots of different interests and our reality is pretty random, even though we won't admit it.
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