Try P K Dick`s short stories and novellas if you want tricky then
Harlan Ellison is another one, as is original pulp editor/writer/ talentspotter/teacher Fred Pohl.
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Heinlein did too kiddy stuff like starship poopers that even when I was 7 yrs and allowed to to use the senior library was not really readable as a grown up book for me even then, Stranger in a strange land was something I remember.
The depiction of sex in SF is usually clunky and homespun 1950`s unless it is very odd " rishathra" or marginal, " I have no mouth and my scream" or dangerous visions : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Visions.
Good short stories do make you do the work and think. The original short that total recall is based on is only 3 pages (4 in standard PB format?) and much better pictures than the film!!
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