Hmm. He *must* be given Greg Egan's _Teranesia_, which has an Indian
protagonist, but maybe not for a year a two. No matter how bright he is,
there's a good chance that he's not yet ready at age 10 for adult sf of the
complexity of Egan's. I wouldn't want to take the risk and turn him off it.
But I bet he'll love Egan's more accessible work by age 12. He should also
start getting into solid adult hard sf by Benford etc and the current
British crop such as Ken MacLeod by then.
Meanwhile, Damien's juveniles would be a good place to start but I don't
know whether any of them are available over there ... I suspect not. My
buddy Alison Goodman has her _Singing the Dogstar Blues_ coming out in the
US some time soon. This is aimed at teenagers, but he might be ready to
tackle it, certainly by the time it is available. It's light and funny, as
well as clever.
I reckon he should also leaven it with a bit of fantasy. It never did me any
harm, at least not in the long run <g>.
R
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Greg Burch said
A family of relatively recent Indian immigrants who are merchants in our
neighbrohood have a 10-year-old son who seems to be shaping up to be a math
and science prodigy. <snip> When I proposed that we might try to
interest him in some science fiction, his father's eyes lit up and he
responded that it was a "splendid" idea.
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