I've just started more seriously going back and listening to earlier SF from my teen years and earlier. I'm really enjoying the first one in the new push. It's by Friz Leiber and entitled The Wanderer
It won the 1965 Hugo for vest nove. Solid story mixed with legit science/astrophysics and feeling of the early 60s of adults not teens. It's read by Norman Dietz who is one of my favorite narrators. He's done over 150 audio books of all types. He's one of the narrators i search for to see what he's done that interests me.
From Good Reeds : All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer–a huge, garishly colored artificial world–emerged. Only a few scientists even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly and silently, it arrived, dwarfing and threatening the Moon and wreaking havoc on Earth's tides and weather. Though the Wanderer is stopping in the solar system only to refuel, its mere presence is catastrophic.
A tense, thrilling, and towering achievement.
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best SF Novel of the Year!
I may do another Friz Leiber or the Gray Lensman series next. Any suggestions for that period that might have faded from my ancient grain?
by Itchy-Ad1005
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I’m a big Leiber fan. Most of his output was in Sword and Sorcery (he coined the term) and horror. You could try the famous “Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser” series or (my favourite) “Our lady of darkness” which invented ‘urban fantasy’ 20 years early.
If you want slightly obscure but classic sf of the period I have to recommend the work of ‘Cordwainer Smith’ who write almost poetic short stories and a few novels.
Your taste might also run to Jack Vance, who wrote dozens of short, witty sf adventures and fantasies.