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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Request from an SF Diletante
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Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 16:07:03 EST
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> My question is: What else qualifies? I guess I am not looking for just
> authors names, but key works from important authors. More Heinlein? which?
> Doc Smith? really? Arthur Clarke? Which? Who else?

For Heinlein, try Double Star, the Star Beast, Starship Troopers,
and the Moon is a Harsh Mistress.  The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
will remind you of Starship Troopers.

For a different view of Doc Smith style space opera, try The Wanderer
by Fritz Leiber (or most anything else by Fritz Leiber, for that matter).
Poul Anderson's Flandry series is sort of space opera as politics.

For Arthur Clarke, try The City and the Stars.
There's a book by Tanith Lee on the same idea (the title escapes me).
In Clarke's Childhood's end you will find better treatments of
many of the ideas of 2001.  One of his inspirations was probably
Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapeldon.

There are many others:  More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon,
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin, Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny,
Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ, Nova and Dalghren by Samuel R. Delany,
etc.  But I don't remember how old you said your son was....
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