 | The Stone Canal: A Fall Revolution Novel by Ken MacLeod
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first book in a truely great series, The "Fall Revolution" cycle is some of the best Sci-Fi I've read.
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 | Schismatrix Plus: Includes Schismatrix and Selected Stories from Crystal by Bruce Sterling
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £2.17 Brilliant. You haven't read great science fiction til you've read this book.
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.22 Any lilst of Sci-Fi would feel a little empty without it. A llittle tired now, but still a good read.
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 | The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.75 Doesn't quite have the style or pacing of Snow Crash, but this is my favourite of Stephenson's Sci-Fi.
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 | Ghost in the Shell (New Edition) by Masamune Shirow
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £60.74 When I first read this, it was like seeing the future...
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 | The Devil Delivered by Steven Erikson
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £119.54 Not just a writer of Fantasy, Erikson first proved his ability with some smaller, weirder books. This one is great Sci-Fi, very original.
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 | Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 I love Greg Bear's work, although they can be a bit trashy. Darwin's Radio is one of his best, alongside perhaps Hammer of God.
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 | The Player of Games (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.30 I'm not a huge fan of Iain M. Banks, but there are a few of his books I wouldn't be without - The Player of Games would be the foremost of those.
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 | The Stars My Destination (S.F. Masterworks) by Alfred Bester
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.33 Very dated - but you can see Bester foreshadowing all the stlyistic elements of contemporary sci-fi writers. Visionary.
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 | Matter for Men (War Against the Chtorr) by David Gerrold
Buy used from: £4.67 Hard to get, yes. Pulpy, yes. But the best sci-fi you'll read, with one of the most horrible threats to mankind ever imagined. Buy the whole series.
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