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Originally Posted by GOLLUM So what SF can you recommend to one unelightended such as my self who tends to veer somewhat sharply towards the fantasy genre??...  |
You might get a kick out of
Pat Murphy's There and Back Again, which riffs on Tolkien--sort of
The Hobbit in Outer Space. It's one of three books, all loosely connected, with recurring characters, but you don't need to read all three. (The first book is a take on Tarzan, with a woman protagonist and wolves in early California, and the third book is a SF mystery, where characters and pseudonyms from the previous books come alive on a modern-day cruise ship. The three-book set is something of a thought experiment combined with homage.)
Almost any of
Sheri Tepper's novels spill pleasantly over into fantasy.
Michaela Roessner's Vanishing Point. (Roessner wrote the fantasy
Walkabout Woman, which you may have read.)
Kage Baker's Sky Coyote
Mentioned before in this thread, but I'll point to them in response to your question:
Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen
Not fantasylike, but the sort of soft-science fiction that others have mentioned and which I enjoy:
James Alan Gardner's Expendable series has characters one can care about deeply: people who are deformed or disfigured in some way, sent to explore new worlds because, if they die, no one will be discomfitted.