 | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever: "Lord Foul's Bane", "Illearth War" and "Power That Preserves" (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) by Stephen Donaldson
Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £4.99 Awesome fantasy, very hard going to begin with, but deeply satisfying with some general nastiness thrown in, not very tolkienesque.
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 | The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: "Wounded Land", "One Tree" and "White Gold Wielder" by Stephen Donaldson
Buy new: £11.19 / Used from: £4.49 more of the same from the master himself, not as good as the unbeliever trilogy, but damn good reading all the same
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 | The Farseer 1.Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy) by Robin Hobb
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £1.20 Simply amazing. I was blown away by this book, which makes it all the harder to beleive what happens later on in the series.
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 | The Farseer II: Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy) by Robin Hobb
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £1.95 Again it is brilliant, but do not read any more books by this writer, she goes downhill after this. Its obvious you are not going to listen, so i'm just going to say i told you so - in advance.
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 | The Real Story (Gap) by Stephen Donaldson
Buy used from: £0.01 This is going to be painful and you may cry, but out of the crucible that is the real story, you will be tough enough to soldier on to the finest S.F. series ever. This is Donaldsons' finest hour.
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 | Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.56 The start of the best Fantasy series ever! Its a very tough first book, but deeply satisfying and by the end you will howl for more. After deadhouse gates, the second book, you will...
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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: £1.94 Amazing, original, deep, but the writer seems to be callously killing off people i have grown to love, great series, but feast for crows was a let down.
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 | Foundation (The Foundation series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £2.43 / Used from: £0.24 This is where it all began for me. asimov dreams galaxies, It make me wonder how good he'd be today, if only we had those futurama style heads... he could dictate!
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 | The Earthsea Quartet: "A Wizard Of Earthsea"; "The Tombs of Atuan"; "The Farthest Shore"; "Tehanu" (Puffin Books) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £4.38 If you are older than 14, then it is probably too late to really appreciate this set. Frightened the bejeesus out of me when i was a kid
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 | Magician (Riftwar saga) by Raymond E. Feist
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.56 This is a great book, what follows is a steady decline of quality reading with the serpent war saga regaining some brilliance, but again followed by dross. shame really
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 | Sword in the Storm (The Rigante series) by David Gemmell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.82 I could really have picked any one of his novels, they are all pretty much the same. It is really light, interesting, page turning and fun, he is the macdonalds of fantasy literature.
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 | Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad) by David Eddings
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £1.93 a classic if you are still in high school.
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 | Galactic Warlord (Piccolo Books) by Douglas Hill
Buy used from: £0.01 another classic from my youth. read all four in this set, then the huntsman series, then the colsec series, then young legionaire.
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 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 This is space opera at its finest. if george lucas read this before making star wars 1 2 3, then things might have been different (Star wars, empire and jedi are fine, in case anyones confused)
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 | Ender's Game (The Ender saga) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.50 An excellent book, very clever and a great twist at the end, the other books in the series come nowhere near to the quality here.
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 | Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.99 quality science fiction, stranger in a strange land is probably better, but i like this more!
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 | Hyperion (Gollancz S.F.) by Dan Simmons
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.28 In a word...Wow! I recently found out that the shrike and tree of thorns idea is based on the Great Shrike (A bird) which impales its food on thorns to keep for later...yum.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £2.47 / Used from: £0.01 Funny, in a semi-maniacal way. pokes a big finger into the eye of serious S.F. and runs away like a loon.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: £25.00 This is what fantasy should aspire to be like. Its childrens tolkien.
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 | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.50 / Used from: £10.00 Yup can't have a list of fantasy books without the grizzled veteran that is tolkien
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 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 definitely deserves a place in this list. i liked the first four, but not the rest, and the finale was a little too trite. but thats just me, i suppose.
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 | Men at Arms (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.34 everybody likes corporal carrot, nuff said. terry pratchett has done equal parts good and bad for the genre and for writing in general. looks like a complete dufus though. might as well read them all
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 | Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Buy new: £3.05 / Used from: £3.40 Its actually a really good read, very heavy though, if someone tried to burglarise your home - wave this book at em and watch them run. do not become a scientologist! kidding!
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 | Rendezvous With Rama (S.F. Masterworks S.) by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: £2.28 / Used from: £1.23 good solid science fiction, 2001 is probably better and more famous, but i like the concept of the rama vehicle.
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 | Contact by Carl Sagan
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 he's done a lot for the whole space thingy, we could do with some more mini sagans right now to push further into space. books good too
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