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Most people have never read Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (it's VERY different from the movie), and while some people have at least heard of 2010: Odyssey Two because it was also a movie, very few people have ever heard of 2061: Odyssey Three and even fewer of 3001: The Final Odyssey.

Some other lesser known science fiction authors include Clifford D. Simak, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John W. Campbell, Lester Del Rey, E.E. Smith, and Philip K. Dick. Several of these authors' works are free from Standard Ebooks.

H. Beam Piper was a master of the space opera. The great part about his Federation series is that each book is completely self-contained, and although they all occur in the same universe, they can be read in any order. Four-Day Planet, Space Viking, and The Cosmic Computer are available free from Standard Ebooks.

David Freer & Eric Flints Rats, Bats, and Vats series was really good.

John Scalzi's Redshirts was fantastic.

Phil Geusz did a bunch of great novels involving "genegineering". His short story Lagrange was hilarious.

For fantasy, the Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster was really great. And his novel Quozl was excellent sci-fi.

Charlie N. Holmberg's Paper Magician series was quite good. T. Kingfisher has also written some great stuff; I really liked A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking.

S. Andrew Swann's Moreau Trilogy was great. Forests of the Night, Emperors of the Twilight, and Specters of the Dawn. The fourth book in the series, Fearful Symmetries was really not that good.

C.S. Lewis is most famous for his Chronicles of Narnia, but he also did a trilogy of science fiction novels, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength