The question this makes me ask

Are people embedded in SF actually able to recommend entry level SF that is entry level?

To be honest, I remember remembering what my first SF books were but I don't remember what they were. And I was a kid so totally different problem from hooking adults or even teens. Good chance it was the Space Cat books and I am going to give a very special golden sliderule award to You Will Go to the Moon, which I read over and over as a little kid.

Oh, The Little Prince would have been in there, although in retrospect I understand that the various ecosystems the Prince visits would likely have been unsustainable in the long run.

Clarkesworld Podcast March 2013: The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution (A.C. Wise)

The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution (A.C. Wise)

The text version can be found here.

Read by Kate Baker

A young person interviews the last survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution, who is coincidentally also the owner of the only sexbot still in existence. Competing models of what exactly happened during the GSR are presented for the reader's benefit.


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Escape: The Lost Special (Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Lost Special (Arthur Conan Doyle)

A detective is stuck with a seemingly impossible to solve mystery: how could a train vanish without a trace from a single tracked route between stations?

Very reminiscent of a Holmes story but not in this form a Holmes story.