Edit: thank you for sharing your suggestions, everyone. I’ll try to check out the ones I haven’t read. Hopefully the responses in this thread were helpful for you too. <3

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    5 days ago

    Time enough for love - Heinlein

    Nor crystal tears - Foster

    A world out of time - Niven

    Ringworld - Niven

    Sassinak - McCaffrey

    The Martian - Weir

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      4 days ago

      Time Enough for Love was my favourite book as a young man. Tried re-reading it recently and really struggled. I feel like the last 20 years of social progress has really dated Heinlein’s language especially (less so his ideas). Was a shame.

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        Agreed. Several of his books have suffered the same fate unfortunately.

        That said, the ideas do still ring very true… Albeit, many of them are the ideas I wish were more fantasy.