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On Fantasy, I can offer no advice it’s just not my cup of tea - but here's
a few science fiction recommendations that I think someone new to the
genre might find inspirational and hopefully habit forming:
You mention Clarke, I'd highly recommend “Songs of Distant Earth” and
“Childhood's End”.
Larry Niven: Protector, followed by the Ringword series.
Stephen Baxter: Calcuating God, and Illegal Alien
Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy (Wake, Watch, and Wondor) are excellent and
might be particularly attractive to a younger reader.
Robert Charles Wilson's Spin trilogy (Spin, Axis, Vortex) -- great books
and I think very accessible.
And, of course, if she hasn’t yet already read them, and though I’m not
sure what ‘genre’ you would classify his works in, but all of Douglas
Adams’s books - The HHGTTG “trilogy in five parts”, Dirk Gently’s Holistic
Detective Agency, Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Last Chance to See, and
Salmon of Doubt (a collection of material from unfinished drafts published
after Mr. Adams’s Death).
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