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I need more context to give you useful recommendations: **About your friend:** - What sci-fi have they read and liked? (authors, subgenres, themes) - What did they dislike or bounce off? - Do they prefer hard sci-fi, space opera, near-future, cyberpunk, literary sci-fi? - Long series or standalones? - Dense worldbuilding or character-driven? **About your goal:** - Are you trying to introduce them to sci-fi or deepen their existing interest? - Safe bet they'll probably like, or something that might expand their taste? Without this, I'd just be throwing popular titles at you. "Best" is meaningless without knowing what works for this specific reader.