 | Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.26 History for SF fans! Also the most interesting slant on the enigma story.
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 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: £6.29 Proper use of the genre to make you think about the nature of mind. One of my all time favourites!
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 | The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £1.39 Literary masterpiece. A fascinating study of gender.
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 | Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £0.01 Banks' best! Fantastic plot with an excellent pay-off at the end.
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 | Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford
Buy used from: £0.01 A hard SF classic, avoids the slow pace of other Brin books, better written than other Benford books.
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £1.99 Surreal SF or antiwar masterpiece, both in my opinion, a life changing book.
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 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.47 / Used from: £0.01 Inevitably. One of the finest stories ever told.
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 | The Man in the High Castle (Essential Penguin) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £5.89 / Used from: £3.21 Classic alternate history in Dick's effortlessly surreal style.
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 | A Wizard of Earthsea (Puffin Books) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.01 Better than Harry Potter could ever be, the first volume of the original young persons fantasy series.
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 | Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Page turning SF thriller with a great sense of humour, SF for fun rather than meaning.
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 | Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) by Dan Simmons
Buy used from: £0.01 First in a classic space opera series, but one with genuinely interesting plots, and with a fantastic enemy, The Shrike.
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.73 The first cyberpunk novel, the best cyberpunk novel. Any objections?
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 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (New English Library science fiction) by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy used from: £2.31 One of heinlens best, before he got old and started publishing his fantasies as novels (see Time enough for Love)
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 | Red Mars (Mars trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson
Buy new: £6.17 / Used from: £0.01 First book in the best terraforming series, long though.
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 | Time-gifts (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Zoran Zivkovic
Buy new: £12.15 / Used from: £10.14 Subtle SF from the former Yugoslavia from an author who has published many brilliant stories in Interzone.
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 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Heavy slabs of surreal hmour from your friend and mine, the sadly missed Douglas Adams :-(
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 | The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 Ridiculous but fun, with one of the most over the top SF hero.
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