Hi all ! Can you help me out here ?

Yes, Jo Zebedee's books are excellent. Abendau's Heir (part of the fine Inheritance Trilogy) and Inish Carraig are beautifully written, gripping SF novels - consider these, Pops64!
 
Pyan said:
May I suggest you read the original post again, carefully this time.
I would have thought that "and basically good fantasy stories" meant "and basically good fantasy stories".
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I did. The OP mentions science fiction specifically six times. I think we can agree that SF is what they are really after. For some readers SF is a kind of ‘fantasy’. They’re clearly not looking for elves, they want SF.
 
I share your displike of sex intruding into stories. There is no sex in CJ Cherryh's many works. (There is the occasional suggestion that intimate contact occurs between bonded individuals, and that people on shore leave might pay for sex, but never any details.)
 
Guttersnipe said:
A.I.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
Cyborg by Martin Caidin (basis for The Six Million Dollar Man) (1972)
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross (2008)
The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia (2008)
The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter (2020)

Aliens
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (2020)
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow (2020)
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (2008)

High Tech in general
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
Next by Michael Crichton (2006)
The Last Centurion by John Ringo (2008)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)


I'd argue most sci-fi novels don't feature intercourse.
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Doesn't Snow Crash feature one significant and surprising, non-explicit sexual encounter? Brilliant book.
 
Orcadian said:
There is no sex in CJ Cherryh's many works. (There is the occasional suggestion that intimate contact occurs between bonded individuals, and that people on shore leave might pay for sex, but never any details.)
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There is rather more than a suggestion in some of her books (I am thinking of Serpent's Reach and Port Eternity), but no explicit details, and the sex is not gratuitous there, but integral to the plot.
 
Teresa Edgerton said:
There is rather more than a suggestion in some of her books (I am thinking of Serpent's Reach and Port Eternity), but no explicit details, and the sex is not gratuitous there, but integral to the plot.
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Thanks for stimulating my thinking Teresa. There is also a sexual scene in one of the early books of the Foreigner Series (perhaps book 4?). In one scene Bren and his body guard (her name escapes me) discover that "their parts are compatible."
 
Parson said:
There is also a sexual scene in one of the early books of the Foreigner Series (perhaps book 4?). In one scene Bren and his body guard (her name escapes me) discover that "their parts are compatible."
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Yes, I had that scene in mind when I wrote "There is the occasional suggestion that intimate contact occurs between bonded individuals ... but never any details". Any sex that takes place is entirely in your own head. Impressed that you remember exactly which book that was, @Parson. ;)
 
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