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Young reader recommendations

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zsa

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My kid surprised me the other day by reading thru a big chunk of the original Star Wars book that I had picked up for him at a used book sale. Now I'm looking for other books that he might like. He's a nut about anything to do with space, robots, etc. Heinlein comes to mind of course, but I'm wondering if there are newer authors that I should be aware of.

Anyone have any recommendations?
 
Older author - John Christopher's Tripod Trilogy: The White Mountains, The City Of Gold and Lead, The Pool Of Fire. Also The Guardians and The Day The Tripods Came but those two are sort of ancillary.
 
Alas, Babylon. Just finished it and it was an excellent book.

<-- Trying to do something educational over the summer, in between sleeping and .... sleeping. 😛
 
E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series -- SF Book Club has a combined edition. No sex or profantiy, just weapons of mass destruction. Antimatter planetoid ownz j00!

The James Schmitz reissues edited by Eric Flint, starting with Telzey Amberdon.
 
Originally posted by: zsa
My kid surprised me the other day by reading thru a big chunk of the original Star Wars book that I had picked up for him at a used book sale. Now I'm looking for other books that he might like. He's a nut about anything to do with space, robots, etc. Heinlein comes to mind of course, but I'm wondering if there are newer authors that I should be aware of.

Anyone have any recommendations?
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I think he might be a bit for Heinlein and Stranger in a Strange Land.
 
Originally posted by: neutralizer
I think he might be a bit (young) for Heinlein and Stranger in a Strange Land.
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Most everything he wrote before he joined the hippie drugs 'n' sex culture was suitable for a young reader. Not all of the stories had happy endings but that's life.

For a painless introduction to international politics, Keith Laumer's Retief stories 🙂 (and for military SF that's less explicit than Drake and Stirling, his own Bolo stories.)

Good suggestion from mcveigh below:
> little fuzzy books by H beam piper
 
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