Young reader recommendations

[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?

 

[SaltBoy]

If he hasn't read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, get it for him ASAP.

 

[imported_Cheeseburger]

The Giver

An easy read but a classic in the sci-fi world.

 

[sillymofo]

Jules Verne.

 

[Jzero]

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.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Alas, Babylon. Just finished it and it was an excellent book.

<-- Trying to do something educational over the summer, in between sleeping and .... sleeping.

 

[DurocShark]

Eregon

 

[preslove]

How old? If you don't mind drugs and sex, William Gibson is awesome.

 

[DaveSimmons]

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.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo
Jules Verne.

what are you 80 years old?

enders game is a very good one, the next one he should read after that is enders shadow and its series.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: preslove
How old? If you don't mind drugs and sex, William Gibson is awesome.

everyone should read neuromancer at least once.

 

[neutralizer]

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?

I think he might be a bit for Heinlein and Stranger in a Strange Land.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: preslove
How old? If you don't mind drugs and sex, William Gibson is awesome.

everyone should read neuromancer at least once.

True. I just read Mona Lisa Smiles. It's even better.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
I think he might be a bit (young) for Heinlein and Stranger in a Strange Land.

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

 

[mcveigh]

little fuzzy books by H beam piper

 

[Ender]

Rover goes for a walk to the park.

 

[UglyCasanova]

The Turner Diaries

 

[OOBradm]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
If he hasn't read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, get it for him ASAP.