 | The Forever War (S.F. Masterworks) by Joe Haldeman
Buy new: £2.14 / Used from: £1.45 Breathtakingly ambitious. A must-read.
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 | Hyperion (Gollancz S.F.) by Dan Simmons
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.50 Dense, complex, challenging, but brilliant
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 | The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.92 So powerful. Spiritually and emotionally devastating
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 | Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.90 If you only read one cyberpunk novel....
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 | The Stand by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.28 One of these "can't put it down" books
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 | The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn Trilogy) by Peter F. Hamilton
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.14 The rest of the trilogy isn't so hot, but this is superb action-packed stuff
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 | Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
Buy used from: £0.33 Slightly crazy but really inventive and compelling
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 | Second Foundation (The Foundation Series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £2.34 / Used from: £0.18 The original trilogy is essential reading. This is the best
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 | Voyage by Stephen Baxter
Buy used from: £0.01 It really could've happened like this
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 | The High King (Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.41 Children's book? Yeah, but this is the best fantasy series ever, and walks all over H**ry P**ter
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 | Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Gollancz S.F.) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £2.88 / Used from: £2.50 Possibly the best SF novel ever
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 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £3.02 / Used from: £0.01 I'm not too keen on the rest of the series but this is good
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 | Ubik (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £2.30 / Used from: £1.99 A second Philip K Dick book in the list, but everything he's done is worth reading
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 | The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 OK, the series drags a wee bit, but the first few novels are unbeatable
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 | The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.05 Another kids' series, but this is one of my favourite books. Avoid the film
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 | Chronicles of Amber: "Nine Princes in Amber", "The Guns of Avalon", "Sign of the Unicorn", "The Hand of Oberon", "The Courts of Chaos" (Fantasy Masterworks) by Roger Zelazny
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.95 A bit dated but fantastically imaginative
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 | Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.50 A relentless page-turner, to use a cliche
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 | Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.35 A real eye-opener. Intelligent, mature, massively complex. Brilliant stuff
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