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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It is a shame that the OP is so narrow is scope of what he will read. He'll miss out on Discworld. He'll also miss out on a lot of other really good works because there may be a small sex scene or magic isn't evil.
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Wel, I might remind you of a discussion in the book club about the Dorothy Sayers' book
Whose Body?. You appeared to take offence when just one character, only briefly part of the story, expressed anti-Semitic views.
And I'd like to cut the selection down even further by pointing out that a lot of science fiction includes what amounts to magic. There's a
Doctor Who episode on TV where the doctor admits "I'd didn't want to say magic door". What is a light sabre but a magic sword made for sci-fi? What is a Warp Drive but a magical way of transporting our heroes around the galaxy? None of these things has any credible scientific basis. So if you want to avoid magic, then out with
Doctor Who, out with
Star Wars, out with
Star Trek ... and so on down the line.
McGonigle mentioned Arthur C. Clarke, and you were right question that. For example
Cradle, cowritten with Gentry Lee, includes some of the most explicit sex scenes I've seen in any book carrying Clarke's name. On the other hand, I don't remember any sex in
The Trigger by Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Kube-McDowell; it's been years since I read it, but the premise was based in science, so it probably fits the OP quite well
and it was an excellent story.