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Originally Posted by JSWolf
When you are picking books for school, you have to take size into account and if a book is too large, it won't do no matter how good. So that means Dune, Mote in God's Eye, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress have to go. Also, you cannot start in the middle of a series, so Mort is out.
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Diskworld isn't a straight series and MORT stands alone on its own.
And length is just a number. Reader engagement is more important. Relevance to the times is more important.
DUNE is a challenging read, maybe a bit too challenging, but the others work on multiple levels, starting with wordsmithing but going well beyond it.
Beyond that, we agree there is no shortage of worthy modern fiction, right?
Both within FS&F and outside it.
Classics are great but they aren't the only answer.