io9 lists the best science fiction novels for fantasy fans. I’m not familiar with any of these selections, but I’ll go ahead and recommend Jack Vance’s Tales of the Dying Earth, Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun, and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars.
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Anything by Octavia Butler. Though science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, she was a social science, horror, fantasy, writer with several series worth exploring.
They’re (intentionally) pulpy as all get-out, and he’s honestly just phoning it in by the end, but Simon R. Green’s Deathstalker series is fantastic space-opera fun with sword-fighting and zombies and castles alongside hyperdrives and AIs. Also, Dune.
@Josh, Oof, I completely forgot about Dune. Definitely a worthy starting point.
There is no true science fiction list that does not prominently include Asimov. Period. I robot, the Foundation books, Asimov.
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