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Well, there's a question mark in the title. Close enough?
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I guess... but "where is science fiction?" is fairly vague. Does the OP want examples of Sci-Fi that isn't fantasy? Or "free and low priced" Sci-Fi that isn't a Tolkien or Harry Potter clone?
What are some examples of what the OP thinks of as "Westerns set on other worlds?" Besides being entranced by Tolkien and Rowling, what qualifies as "good?"
If "free or cheap" is a
requirement... your work is cut out for you. Not that free or cheap automatically means bad, but rather that it exponentially increases the sample size that you have to wade through.
I can only recommend what I think is good -- and price doesn't enter into that:
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tim Powers, Peter F. Hamilton, Dan Simmons, Cherie Priest, Charles deLint, Gregory Keyes, China Mieville, Connie Willis, Neal Stephenson, Robert Charles Wilson, Anthony Huso, Nnedi Okorafor.