![]() | Woken Furies (Gollancz S.F.) by Richard Morgan
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.49 The third and probably the weakest of the series so far. But its still pretty darn good!
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![]() | Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.76 What can one say? This has to be one of the best fantasy series going.
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![]() | The Algebraist by Iain Banks
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 I'm a big Iain Banks fan. And this one did not disappoint at all. Tense, awe-inspiring and at times laugh-out-loud funny.
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![]() | Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.24 Its difficult to describe the wonder that is Cryptonomicon. Its one of the most enjoyable books I've read. Ever.
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![]() | Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.97 I'm beginning to run out of adjectives to describe Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen... but for me this was the best one yet.
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![]() | Revelation Space (Gollancz S.F.) by Alastair Reynolds
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A highly enjoyable space opera romp!
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![]() | The Golden Age (Narratives of empire) by Gore Vidal
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £0.01 A masterful conclusion to a masterful series. No one writes dry, witty dialogue like Vidal.
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![]() | Redemption Ark (Gollancz S.F.) by Alastair Reynolds
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 More fun courtesy of Alastair Reynolds, and the best of the trilogy that concludes with Absolution Gap
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![]() | Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Buy new: £2.47 / Used from: £0.84 A sly retelling of the Beowolf tale! I couldn't put this down. Where has the old Michael Crichton gone?
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![]() | Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg
Buy used from: £0.50 Like alot of Silverberg's stuff, this has a dense brooding atmosphere. It also has intricate characterisation and a tight plot, which makes it the best by him I've read yet.
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![]() | Songmaster by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £4.33 / Used from: £2.73 This was a pleasant surprise. Card's prose is fluid and alive with vitality and the plot zips along in the most unexected directions. Most enjoyable!
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![]() | Absolute Friends by John Le Carre
Buy new: £2.32 / Used from: £0.01 A masterpeice of characterization. I was completely sucked in by this one.
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![]() | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £2.00 Can't praise this enough. I had heard it was good. I didn't know it was this good!
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![]() | A Clash of Kings (Song of Ice and Fire) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.03 Once I started this series, there was no stopping until I had read everything I could get my hands on. Believe the hype!
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![]() | A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3 Part 1) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £2.95 Theres something wonderfully Shakespearen about GRR Martin's prose (and plot) that makes it a pleasure to read
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![]() | A Storm of Swords: 2 Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3, Part 2): Blood and Gold by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.15 And no decline in quality at all as the series goes on. This is right up there with the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Maybe just a rung below....
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![]() | Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Buy used from: £3.75 Compelling! And no one writes fantastical tragedy like Kay.
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![]() | The Farseer II: Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy) by Robin Hobb
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £2.15 All in all, the Farseer Trilogy was a fairly decent series in which this book stood out due to the rather shocking (and compelling) turn things took towards the end. The 3rd book was disappointing.
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![]() | The Iron Dragon's Daughter (Fantasy Masterworks) by Michael Swanwick
Buy used from: £5.49 I read this and Tad Williams' War of the Flowers (which had a similar theme) close to each other and this was just so much better. A real literary fantasy classic!
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![]() | The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
Buy used from: £2.80 A year in which I get to read lots of GRR Martin AND Steven Erikson is a GOOD year!
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![]() | A Feast for Crows (Song of Ice and Fire) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £4.29 ditto!
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![]() | Eon (S.F. Masterworks) by Greg Bear
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.21 Greg Bear was one of the best SF authors writing in the 80s and its with books like this that he established his name in the genre. SF on a very broad canvas!
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![]() | Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 This book introduced me to Bainbridge's historical novels and its certainly a compelling work. The descriptions of both the streets of 1850s London and the confusion and mess in the Crimea are superb.
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![]() | Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantium Mosaic) by Guy Gavriel Kay
Buy used from: £5.25 Wonderful 'historical' fantasy.
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![]() | Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine mosaic) by Guy Gavriel Kay
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.30 An excellent sequel. Once again Kay proves he's a fantasy master.
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