Wanted: vampire-free fantasy

There are plenty of wonderful and original teen fantasy titles which have nothing to do with either I can’t remember the last time I read a good teen fantasy/SF book. In fact, every time I go out to look for one I get bombarded by books about vampires and werewolves. So I was wondering: could you suggest to me a new and orignial fanstasy/SF read? Yours faithufully, Alex Although wolves and bloodsuckers are very much in vogue right now, there are plenty wonderful and original teen fantasy titles which have nothing to do with either of them (see my reply to Readerholic) . And you could add Jan Mark’s The Eclipse of the Century and Useful Idiots or Diana Wynne Jones’s Hexwood or Homewood Bounders to the list too. For further SF, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Ursula le Guin’s The Dispossessed or anything by Anne McCaffery or Terry Pratchett would also fit the bill, as would prize-winning classics of the genre such as I Robot, a collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov, Dune by Frank Herbert or Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Science fiction Teen books Julia Eccleshare guardian.co.uk

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