Travelogues

The Fleet Of Stars becomes partly a futuristic travelogue. Guthrie from Amaterasu at Beta Hydri visits Zamok Sabely' at Alpha Centauri and Proserpina en route to the inner Solar System. Fenn from Luna visits the Pacific, then Mars. In other works by Poul Anderson, Dominic Flandry tours Merseia in the company of young Merseians of equivalent rank, then later treks across Dido and, later again, through the Kazan, the Obala and Zorkagrad on Dennitza. Other characters travel a long distance down the Flone on Aeneas. Flandry's daughter similarly travels on Imhotep and Daedalus.

More sf could be like this. Fictional futures contain many exotic places that could be visited peacefully and described interestingly without having to become settings for violent conflicts between intelligent species and their interstellar civilizations.