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Don't think I've seen these folks mentioned yet:
--Poul Anderson
--Anne McCaffrey
--Ursula Leguin
--Ben Bova
...there's many others beyond the well known Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. Big Grin

Like PHPaul, I grew up reading John Campbell's Analog magazine (although I was subscribing from the very late '50s - early '60s) so I remain very fond of old time Sci-Fi authors.


I have read Anderson (Orion Shall Rise) and Bova,

LeGuin's Lathe of Heaven is an excellent book,


never got into the dragon stuff, so I skipped McCaffery



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Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.

Can't believe my local library purged his books couple years ago.


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Larry Niven The Integral Trees

Alan Dean Foster
I have read and re-read that book mucho times. Been at least a decade.


and

the two sequels, Mission to Moulokin and The Deluge Drivers



 
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William Gibson's Neuromancer opened the doors of the cyberpunk genre for me. Read the following novels and watched Johnny Mnemonic movie with K. Reeves.

Altered Carbon tv series was fine too.

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I enjoyed much of Virtual Light, but never finished it when the imagery got too "cartooney". Shoulda read it when I was younger.
 
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Iain M Banks - the "Culture" books, and the sci-fi novels...

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/iain-m-banks/



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Orson Scott Card?


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Card's work is pretty good for a later sci-fi writer. Like reading David Brin's stuff from time to time. And Iain Banks writes some pretty entertaining material. Greg Bear was another author whose work that I often sought out.

For content from 1980 and earlier Asimov was my favorite go-to author for sci-fi and real science. Others close to the same class for me were Frank Herbert, Niven (with or without Jerry P) and Heinlein. Filled out the paperback library with Anderson, Clarke, Silverberg, Leguin, Pohl...


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Not surprised he hasn't been mentioned, but Alfred Bester was one of the Grandmasters of the genre. The Demolished Man was the winner of the very first Hugo Award for Best Novel and one of the quintessential stories on telepaths. He followed it up The Stars My Destination aka Tyger! Tyger! depending if you're in the US or Europe.

The thing that draws me to Bester is he's one of the most visual writers I've ever read. It's almost like watching a movie instead of reading events. Roger Zelazny gets close.
 
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Not a book but I love listening to the old X minus one radio show from the 50s


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Not a book but I love listening to the old X minus one radio show from the 50s


You can still listen free here:
https://archive.org/details/OT...4-24001NoContact.mp3



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The BOLO series by Keith Laumer. Great military Sci-Fi books about sentient tanks during war's of the future.



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Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series.

And I admit, I was surprised at how well Andrew Stanton's "John Carter" (2012) captured the genre.


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I like the Anne McCaffrey Dragonriders series, most of Brandon Sanderson’s stuff and I’m almost finished with the Wheel of Time series.
 
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