@betaquarii@bookstodon for my nephew, who is a physics major but not as heavy a fiction reader, The Martian might be good.
For someone older than me who is a reader, I might start with Bradbury's Dandelion Wine (which isn't really SF-y) and then move on to another writer with strong prose, like le Guin, Chiang or Liu, each of whose writing I find moving and thought-provoking.
@betaquarii@bookstodon if you know someone who thinks SF is only for nerdy cishet white men (like me), the last couple of decades has been just a blossoming of talent. Besides some of those above, the anthology New Suns is a wild, wonderful smorgasbord.
@betaquarii@bookstodon oh, returning to action lovers, if you know someone into Terminator movies or who has a sarcastic or rebellious streak, how could you go wrong with Murderbot?!?
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