Thread: scifi - clean, classic, 50's 60's type suggestions
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Old 05-04-2011, 01:05 AM   #56
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I'm not a fan of the criteria, but I have some thoughts.

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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73 View Post
Have you read Anne McCaffrey's Dragon books? They are more fantasy in flavor than SF, though but I think they otherwise meet your criteria.
Yeah. Good idea. Try "Dragonsdawn" which is the first book chronologically (and is clearly sci-fi, more so than some of the later books). Just read that again a few weeks ago.

I second the suggestion for Doc E.E. Smith - lensman, Skylark novels, etc - would fit the criteria. Squeaky clean 1920s sci-fi.

I think I would also agree with Ender's Game. Since it's about genius kids I think it would work. I love Card's "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" -an alternate history/ time travel story of a sort - that might work also.
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