What's the best gateway author to introduce people to sc-ifi? A catch it all author like Brandon Sanderson it's right now for fantasy.

We can argue all day about the strengths and weaknesses of Sanderson as an author, but what it's true is that they're books are great to introduce people to fantasy books. They work for almost everybody (that is not a SF reader yet).

What do you think is a good scifi equivalent? Of what I've read, the closer I can think of is The Expanse (James CA Corey) or maybe Andy Weir.

But I'm sure that you guys have read a ton more than me, so you might have better examples.