 | The Walrus and the Warwolf (Chronicles of an Age of Darkness) by Hugh Cook
Buy used from: £0.01 a very funny read with adult themes and which makes the reader really care for the characters. I must have read it at least 10 times in 15 years.
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 | Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £1.00 Extremely intricate and plausible futuristic Earth. Tense throughout and only let down by the high number of characters - but please do persevere!
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 | The Player of Games (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £2.84 / Used from: £0.40 In my opinion Iain Banks' best Culture novel. Very well written and with a real twist at the end.
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 | Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £1.39 / Used from: £0.97 Superb book for the younger reader I would say, but I enjoyed it immensely at 30!
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.99 A truly memorable book and one consistently in the top bracket of the best books ever written. Scary and a believably bleak outlook for the human race.
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 | A Scanner Darkly (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £1.95 A wonderful story with an excellent twist at the end, utterly thought provoking.
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 | Use of Weapons (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.67 In my opionion Iain Banks' second best Culture novel. Thorougly engrossing.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.66 This book has dated but Heinlein's vision is still a powerful one.
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 | Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £1.74 Hamilton's follow up to Pandoras Star and almost as good but a little over-written towards the end.
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 | The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.42 A marvellous and powerfully thought provoking book. A must read.
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