# Sci Fi Book Recommendations please

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-book-recommendations-please/985699
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** books-writing-myths
**Created:** [June 17, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-book-recommendations-please/985699 "2023-06-17T21:26:02Z")
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### Author: ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-book-recommendations-please/985699/2 "2023-06-17T21:49:24Z")

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You might find some ideas here:

> [@Humorous Space Opera](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-space-opera/976224):
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> For Christmas my daughter has requested humorous space opera, but in paperback form. (She and her sister read horrible cozy mysteries in ebook formats, so she has used up her ebook allotment on them.) She has read the Murderbot books and Becky Chambers already. I’m going to give her some early Retief books from my collection. The ones available from Amazon are scarce and expensive. Also, the Harry Harrison satires, Bill the Galactic Hero and the first “Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers,” wh…

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