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Originally Posted by sassanik
I recently read Little Fuzzy and Oomphel in the Sky by H Beam Piper and I was very impressed, especially considering the time period that they were written in.
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All of the Piper currently in the public doamain is available here on MobileRead, in anthology editions created by HarryT. Good stuff.
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No one mentioned Anne McCaffrey, though she is somewhat more fantasy than Sci-Fi, you might have already read her though.
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Depends on which books. The Pern series
feels like fantasy, with a feudal social system, medieval level of technology, and fire breathing dragons. It isn't, it's SF. If you come in the the middle, you miss the setup that Pern is a lost colony whose human inhabitants arrived by starship, the fire breathing dragons are the result of genetic engineering on the indigenous fire lizards, and the social structure and level of technology is a side effect of the parasitic "Thread", whose periodic fall destroyed the original civilization and whose descendants have forgotten their origins.
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I would also recommend Frank Herberts Dune, if you have not read it yet.
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As would I, but I'd be more guarded in my recommendation for the rest of the series that followed it.
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Dennis