 | Queen Of Angels by Greg Bear
Buy used from: £0.01 Greg Bear's best book. What could be more fascinating than the Landscape of the Mind?
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 | Slant by Greg Bear
Buy used from: £0.01 Worth reading for the idea of a 'therapied' population alone
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 | Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Simply clever. Clever idea, very believable public reaction. Darwin's Children is a worthy sequel, too.
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 | Eon (S.F. Masterworks) by Greg Bear
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.52 Eon and Eternity are simply breathtaking. But enough of Greg Bear...
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 | Excession by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 The best book by Ian M. Banks. Humanity as passengers of The Culture is a great concept.
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 | Inversions by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 What would happen if we started to interfere in another culture?
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 | A Fire Upon The Deep (Gollancz S.F.) by Vernor Vinge
Buy used from: £1.93 Life in the Transcend instead of being stuck in the Slow Zone. If only we could move Earth...
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 | A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Buy used from: £2.75 Another great book from Vernor Vinge. Grand ideas to start with and great narrative.
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 | Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness by Stephen R. Donaldson
Buy used from: £1.51 The Gap Series is some of the most compelling Sci-Fi ever written. Great characters and an absolutely frantic pace.
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 | Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn Trilogy) by Peter F Hamilton
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 The Nights Dawn trilogy asks some truly profound questions about 'the soul'. Could have done with a few less than the 3,500 pages, though.
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 | Pandora's Star: Part One of the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 Now there is a REALLY scary alien. One of the most non-human aliens ever created and great storytelling, too.
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 | Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.49 Welcome to the virtual world. Every hacker's dream novel, I suppose.
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 | The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.34 Talk about subversive technology... and some very interesting form of death sentence!
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 | Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) by Dan Simmons
Buy used from: £0.01 Scary and compelling, it will make you read all 4 books in the series!
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 | Solaris (Faber Fiction Classics) by Stanislaw Lem
Buy used from: £5.00 Lem has written some great Sci-Fi, but few of his books have been translated.
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 | Roadside Picnic (Gollancz Collectors' Editions) by Boris Strugatsky
Buy used from: £49.98 The best Russian Sci-Fi comes from the Strugatsky brothers. Great ideas and great writing.
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 | Ender's Game (The Ender saga) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £4.58 / Used from: £1.35 The Ender Saga is another true Sci-Fi masterpiece. Great pace, great action and plenty to think about.
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 | The Many-coloured Land (The Saga of the Exiles) by Julian May
Buy used from: £0.01 The Saga of the Exiles is a brilliant combination of Sci-Fi with psychology.
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 | Intervention by Julian May
Buy used from: £0.01 Julian May excels again in Intervention and the Galatic Milieu Trilogy.
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 | Revelation Space (Gollancz S.F.) by Alastair Reynolds
Buy used from: £0.01 Pretty dense narrative but with some very neat ideas and some scary characters.
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