This reminds me of a great short SF story by J.F. Bone: A Prize for Edie http://manybooks.net/pages/bonejf2633226332/0.html
"The Committee had, unquestionably, made a mistake. There was no doubt that Edie had achieved the long-sought cancer cure... but awarding the Nobel Prize was, nonetheless, a mistake..."
Allot of the classic authors referred to are available for free online, here for instance: http://manybooks.net/collections/SciFi_post1950.php (1950 thru 1960)
If some of the science fiction is a little too 'liberal' for prude parents then I'd suggest C.S. Lewis' Cosmic Trilogy which are a surprisingly good read and quite rare among the majority humanistic sci-fi authors.
Along that vein, I'd suggest there is another genre that could be added here - Erotic Fantasy with Space Ships. Seems to me there are a remarkable amount of dirty old men who write science fiction to fantasise about a new society where women have conveniently loose morals.
Personally I'm an Clarke fan.
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This reminds me of a great short SF story by J.F. Bone: A Prize for Edie http://manybooks.net/pages/bonejf2633226332/0.html "The Committee had, unquestionably, made a mistake. There was no doubt that Edie had achieved the long-sought cancer cure ... but awarding the Nobel Prize was, nonetheless, a mistake ..."
Allot of the classic authors referred to are available for free online, here for instance: http://manybooks.net/collections/SciFi_post1950.php (1950 thru 1960) If some of the science fiction is a little too 'liberal' for prude parents then I'd suggest C.S. Lewis' Cosmic Trilogy which are a surprisingly good read and quite rare among the majority humanistic sci-fi authors. Along that vein, I'd suggest there is another genre that could be added here - Erotic Fantasy with Space Ships. Seems to me there are a remarkable amount of dirty old men who write science fiction to fantasise about a new society where women have conveniently loose morals. Personally I'm an Clarke fan.