RE: The most overrated and underrated sci-fi novels
There are so many good ones out there.
Larry Niven's Universe with the Ring World and Kzin.
Jack Chalker and his Well of the worlds series.
Saberhagen and the Berserker series.
Asimov and the Foundation trilogy.
Laumer and the Bolo series.
Harry Harrison and his Stainless Steel Rat series.
David Webber and his Honor Harrington series.
And I'm just scratching the surface here.
Yes, some of the older sci-fi is no longer relevant
because the tech no longer makes quite as much sense,
though often the story behind it is still worthy.
Consider the use of slide rules in the early sci-fi.
And as we learn more about the universe some things
just don't work. Consider early fiction of Mars, Venus, and even the moon where people could go there
now and live and breathe without assistance.
Newer fiction reflects this with books like Green Mars which deals with terraforming and the like.
Stranger in a Strange Land is an iconic book because
of certain elements that resonated with the youth culture of the 60's, but otherwise not of interest to
many casual readers.
Farnham's Freehold is another book that, hopefully, will not quite resonate as it deals with racism in a way akin to Orwell's Animal Farm and involves a future ruled by Black Cannibals.
