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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card if you haven't already read it.
Pick up some Philip K. Dick novels if you really want brain-fuck sci-fi. Ubik, The Man in the High Castle, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich are all a fun read. Hell, just pick up the compilation.
Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End
GREAT book. Seriously, great. I read it right after finishing the Speaker series.
Clarke has a ton of other good stuff, too.
And if he likes Asimov, he'll probably like Dick too. Find him a cool copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
This collection of Dick stories is free on the Kindle app, and I HIGHLY recommend it.
This one is a hardcover with 4 of Dick's best novels.
And this is probably the coolest non-collectible copy of DADoES that I've seen: Part 1 and Part 2. I really love the artwork.
Anything by Philip K. Dick. If you can find this book at your bookstore (or I suppose you could also just order it from amazon) BUY IT IMMEDIATELY.
Ubik is one of the most outstanding books I have ever read, not to mention the most trippiest. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is the original story for the movie Blade Runner, The Man In The High Castle takes place in an alternate reality where the Axis Powers won WII, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is all about the crazy drugs Martian colonists like to take.
It's a little dark than the Orson Scott Card and Isaac Asimov, but they are definitely worth the read.
I'd recommend literally anything by Philip K. Dick, but if I must choose, then "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" and "Ubik" are favourites of mine. Library of America has released two excellent collections of his work:
Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s
Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s
But since many will probably mention Dick already, I'd like to recommend a couple of, perhaps, slightly more obscure sci-fi writers:
A. E. van Vogt (I like the Null-A series)
Clifford D. Simak (I was especially fond of "Ring Around the Sun" and "They Walked Like Men")
Fred Saberhagen (The Berserker series)
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Last: Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs. A modern fantasy/romance book. I really like this series, even though the psychology and sociology or werewolf tribes theme gets old at times, the main character is sympathetic and believable in her motives, and the supporting cast is characterized with more depth than in most other urban fantasy I've read.
Now: The Book of the Long Sun. Actually, half way though Epiphany. This series is by a favorite author. I have to reserve judgment until I've finished it. I loved the first two books, tolerated the third, just starting the fourth. This is story experienced by a group of religious leaders and thieves in a poor neighborhood, in a famished city, in a cylindrical spaceship. The discussion a while back on Reddit about teleportation and identity would be relevant to this story.
Next: I've never read anything by Philip K. Dick, so I want to read The Man in the High Castle.
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Ohhh, try Philip K. Dick (No one has suggested him yet???) Amazing writer and truth teller, philosophical, and controversial - you likely wont get him in any standard lit class. [Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of The 1960s / The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik (Library of America No. 173)] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598530097/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=1598530097&link_code=as3&tag=planteaterboo-20) Let me know if you like his writing... Dr. A, thinkphilosophy.org
Actually, I think /u/leadchipmunk-barter's suggestion of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a lot better. I don't have that book per se, but I have something better: Four of his novels in one book.
Basically, in DADoES, this guy is a bounty hunter whose job it is to find and kill androids. The problem? The androids are pretty intelligent, and they are built to basically be indistinguishable from humans. So, this guy has to figure out if it is an android or a human. That may not sound very interesting, but it's incredible. It is definitely philosophical literature, very Heideggarian. It will leave you wondering what it means to be human. One of my favorite books.