SF and Fantasy for People Who Rarely Read SF and Fantasy
Discover the best SF and fantasy books for non-frequent readers! Explore our curated list of underrated gems perfect for diving into the genre.
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Stewards of the Flame
by Sylvia Engdahl
When starship captain Jesse Sanders is seized by a dictatorial medical regime and detained on the colony planet Undine, he has no idea that he …
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Enchantress from the Stars
by Sylvia Engdahl
Three civilizations from different planets in widely varying stages of development clash in what could be either a mutually disastrous or beneficial encounter.
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The Green Hills of Earth
by Robert Anson Heinlein
As man expands his technological empire to the moon and Venus, the obsolescence of his economic and military institutions becomes apparent.
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The Rolling Stones
by Robert Anson Heinlein
When the Stone twins made up their minds to leave Lunar City in a secondhand spaceship, they hadn't planned on having their whole family accompany …
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Tunnel in the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein
High school students enter a time gate to an unknown planet for a survival test, but something goes wrong and they have to learn to …
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Double Star
by Robert Anson Heinlein
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career …
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The Long Tomorrow
by Leigh Brackett
In the aftermath of a nuclear war, Americans have come to blame technology for the disaster. The population is scattered into small towns. Cities are …
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game—adapted to film in 2013 starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford—is the classic Hugo and …
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Partners in Necessity
by Sharon Lee
Here they are again, the three novels that introduced us all to the Liaden Universe over a decade ago. It is time to get reacquainted …
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The Forbidden Circle
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
These two classic Darkover novels tell the epic tale of four people who challenged the ancient laws of the matrix towers.
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The Lord of the Rings
by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Presents the epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth, following the odyssey of Frodo the hobbit …
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A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to a Master Wizard.
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The King Must Die
by Mary Renault
In this ambitious, ingenious narrative, celebrated historical novelist Mary Renault take legendary hero Theseus and spins his myth into a fast-paced and exciting story. Renault …
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The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne. “A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply …
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The Catswold Portal
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A striking new reissue of an epic fantasy by popular Harper author Shirley Rousseau Murphy, featuring a princess's dangerous quest to reclaim her throne...and, of …
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The Dead Zone
by Stephen King
Beware, The Wheel of Fortune… Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into…the …
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Watchers
by Dean Koontz
A “superior thriller”(Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York …