What are some clean science fiction books?

[RBeatrice]

C.S. Lewis has a few Sci-Fi books, the one I read Out of the Silent Planet was clean. His is more of a mix of fantasy and sci-fi.

 

[DDCOrange]

I've thought about this one for a while and have to echo some earlier responses.
Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis were both excellent reads and ended on a very upbeat note. While romance existed to some degree, it was all very chaste and proper. While violence does occur (hard to avoid in mass bombings of London and the later V2 rocket attacks; let alone the part about the Dunkirk evacuation) it is not over the top or very graphic.
Also you might consider the early works of Robert Heinlen such as Podkayne of Mars, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel or even Starship Troopers. These stories are also largely devoid of anything graphic and are quite well-written if somewhat dated.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Do a three way comparison between Bradbury's Martian Chronicles and Clarke's Sands of Mars and what has happened in the real world since 1951.

I just reread Sands of Mars. I am thinking of doing Martian Chronicles now.

Those books are from before Sputnik and the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Moon landing and PCs and the Internet.

But Bradbury has World War III in 2026. It is an interesting study in two kinds of science fiction from passed masters. But they are both about Mars colonies that we still do not have, but we do have a robot on Mars so they both demonstrate the relevance of science fiction to science and technology in the real world.

psik

 

[MrScience101]

Timothy Zahn as mentioned earlier has clean books except for triplet, and angel mass. His star wars ones are all good and I enjoyed the Icarus hunt, spinneret, and dead man's switch(could be considered a bit dark though) as well. I thought the night train to rigel was good, but somewhat boring at times. The green and the gray was good. There are some mild swear words in his books.

Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard has some mild swearing in it and is essentially clear of sex with the exception of one paragraph where the main character wonders what some natives are doing over by the sea shore and then wishes he had not looked (implied is what they were doing, while not described, so maybe they weren't doing anything Stay away from his other books though, tons of sex and implied sex in everything else I have read by him.

Space Prison by Tom Godwin is an ok read if you are in the mood for older sci-fi and you can get past the first couple of depressing chapters.

Star Wars: Knight Errant by John Jackson Miller and his short stories except for the last one are all clean.

The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley - an older scifi novel I enjoyed and was also clean.

Lost Tales of Power By Vincent Trigili - Wizards in space, transdimonsional wizardry, and more wizardry.

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans - Gripping.

Odyssey One, Evan Currie - No sex but so many F words, S words, and such I felt like I was in the Navy again...

Leaning more towards fantasy but might be considered sci-fi(in a very very loose sense):
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer - mild swearing but very good
Fable Heaven series by Brandon Mull - clean
Reiyalindis by Cory Poulson - I almost did not read this because the cover has a picture of a young female elf child. Glad I did though very good. (somewhat violent so don't give it to your young daughters without reading it first!)
Adventurer's Wanted: The Horn of Moran by M. L. Forman - The main character might be a bit too perfect, but still a fun read

And for a bit of techno-fi look at the Alex Rider series (though there is a decent amount of swearing and the author clearly bashes governments and spy agencies).

 

[Milena]

Edmond Hamilton, Starwolf, Star Kings, Sun Smasher
Stanislaw Lem books.. pretty much all
Fiasco, Invincible,Tichiy series of course

 

[Siberian]

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Divergent by Veronica Roth - another YA distopia (some hints, but nothing explicit)
Lost Fleet books by Jack Campbell (again, hints only)

 

[N. E. White]

I think you would like Hugh Howey's Molly Fyde series. It's YA, but I thought the first in the series (Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue) was pretty good. I'm not sure about the rest in the series, but the first wasn't dark and had no sex (but there is action, deception, and a bit of romance).

 

[Verywierd]

What about the Telzey Amberdon series by James H Schmitz? There is no sex as far as I can recall, and it is never really dark or bloody.

Also the Sector General series by James White. The closest to sex in it that I can remember is when the human doctor MC develops a crush on a huge crab shaped alien nurse.

 

[ArtNJ]

Psion Beta is YA sci-fi, first book is free. Its totally clean, but does have a modicum of violence.

Its Ender's Game with psionics where the end game is battles with psychotic villains. Stellar ratings on Amazon -- basically the best rated sci-fi book on Amazon, or one of them anyway, but its only listed in the YA section, not sci-fi.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Space Prison by Tom Godwin is an ok read if you are in the mood for older sci-fi and you can get past the first couple of depressing chapters.

The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley - an older scifi novel I enjoyed and was also clean.

http://librivox.org/space-prison-by-tom-godwin/

http://librivox.org/the-colors-of-space-by-marion-zimmer-bradley-2/

psik

 

[ScifiTom]

I would recommend Silent Intrusion

I really enjoy reading science fiction, but it's often difficult to find good science fiction that isn't too dark and that doesn't contain sex. What are some good science fiction authors/books that aren't dark and gloomy and that don't have sexual content?

If you're looking for light hearted no sex I'd recommend Silent Intrusion by Adam Gillrie. I don't remember seeing a single swear word or sex scene. Here is the authors website: