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Dont miss:- Harry Turtledove - Guns of the south (time travel, AK-47's and the yank Civil War !) and his wonderful Videssos series (based on Byzantium - the eastern Roman empire which outlasted Rome by a thousand years til conquered by Turks, hence Turkey is what the christian empire of Byzantium used to be) although that isn't sci-fi I suppose, although the first books he wrote on the subject was a Roman cohort in Gaul magically fading out of Gaul and into Videssos.
Larry Niven's stuff - paticulalry the Ringworld series and Inferno and Escape from Hell (updating Dante's Inferno) Philip Jose Farmer and Jack Vance are both odd and interesting. Farmer's Riverworld series is fabulous (desperately trying to find some of Farmer's work not known to me. Its there, just can't find) and Vance's Dying Earth series is weird and wonderful, although I could never get away with his Lyonesse series oddly. Stopped reading it irritated, never started again.
Poul Anderson's time travel stuff is great. Silverberg great stuff,
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