Recommend me a sci-fi story...

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... about humanity's first contact with some primitive alien race, and out of desire to help them, the humans ruin everything. There's a war/genocide/destruction of the ecosystem, and the aliens are forever corrupted by human influence.
I'm sure there are plenty of classic sci-fi books exploring this idea.
 
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Hardline Traditionalist said:
Aren't humans the ones who are relatively primitive compared to the aliens in Mass Effect?
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I think there are a few subplots in Mass Effect where you get to influence the development of an alien race and they hate you for it depending on your choice and I guess technically the ending of ME3/the entire trilogy kinda counts as the same lol, but in the main storyline a locally-spacefaring human civilization uncovers a mass relay in the solar system and unexpectedly runs into the developed turian civilization, causing a conflict. So that isn't really what you're looking for.

I swear I have played at least one other game with these themes but I can't remember any right now.
 
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If you're a cyberpunk fan then you have to read "Neuromancer" by William Gibson (1984)
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Cyberpunk was popularized because of this guy, and alot of games/books/comics are inspired by this book. It's a good jumping off point to other branches of the genre.
 
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Hardline Traditionalist said:
I read it already, it's not relevant to my question.
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Maybe this? This one's pretty good if you're into the concept.

primitive alien race :agree:
humans ruin everything :agree:
war/genocide- on a smaller scale
alien race indirectly influenced by a human creation before first contact- :agree:

The ending however doesn't match your parameters, you are probably looking for something more gritty and hopeless. This books ending isn't exactly "happy" but it's hopeful and optimistic. That's all I got. There's probably something better.
 
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– particle accelerator experiment goes wrong and creates a rift between dimensions
– secret government project for researching the shit that comes from the other side
– mercs and terrorists who use the tech to make stealth suits and other cool shit
– a civilian getting roped into the conspiracy on his holiday
 
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This one explores the opposite: a relatively-primitive humanity makes first contact with a race so advanced they aren't even clocked as sentient; humanity messes up and gets enslaved and Earth is turned into one giant concentration camp and stays that way until humanity rebels and turns into a galaxy-wide space 1984 hunting all other aliens to extinction.

Humanity also genetically-modifies their former enslavers into long-distance telephones
 
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