All, my lad is 13 and enjoying science fiction , any recommendations to keep him reading modern and classic. I’ve read a few but not really my baseline.
Any help much appreciated
I’ve bought him the hitchhiker’s set for wednesday
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Philip K Dick - the collected volumes of short stories are ace. And then there’s 50+ novels to get through.
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Are they age appropriate as in he’s 13
And I don’t mean teen just shit he can get his mind around
Also called “Tiger! Tiger!”
It’s ancient but it’s stayed with me since I read it at about the same age.
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I don’t think there’s anything too horrific in there. Some of the later stuff (Valis, Ubik, Flow my Tears the Policemen Said, A Scanner Darkly), once he’d melted his brain with vast amounts of drugs, can be challenging.
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Also Robert Heinlein’s stuff is great.
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That’s what he contends with as home life balance
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I just about recall reading A fall of moondust by Arthur C Clarke when I was that age & would also enjoy Asimov & Henlein books.
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John Wyndham, Frank Herbert
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Stainless Steel Rat 
edit: and Ringworld
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Alan Dean Foster - any, but the Pip and Flinx series are good
Dune is complex but great to read, and feels incredibly up to date considering when it was written. The later books get a bit turgid for me, but the first 2 or 3 are superb.
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I think I’m going to read Gateway over Christmas now!
Please don’t , the more I have , the more choice I have in chazzers
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Also not just Dune, he wrote other good SF novels too
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I read a lot of Philip Jose Farmer scifi as a young teenager, but that was some time ago, also Harry Harrison for more classics, and S Spencer Baker for a more recent author
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Ray Bradbury
(But you can’t go wrong with Heinlein, Dick and Asimov)
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Great fun
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