 | The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £61.40 / Used from: £65.46 THE great classic.
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 | The Anubis Gates (Fantasy Masterworks) by Tim Powers
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.35 An excellent read and good introduction to Tim Powers' work.
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 | The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde Trilogy) by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Buy new: £1.09 / Used from: £0.01 A refreshing new voice in fantasy fiction.
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 | Magician (Riftwar saga) by Raymond E. Feist
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.52 No-one does politics and intrigue better than Feist.
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 | 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 Another classic.
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 | Imajica by Clive Barker
Buy used from: £1.30 Perhaps better known for his horror, nevertheless a formidable weaver of fantasies.
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 | A Wizard of Earthsea (Puffin Books) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: £1.65 / Used from: £0.01 Really a children's book, but also a great introduction to some of her more mature works.
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 | Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson: Night Land and Other Romances v. 4 (Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson) by William Hope Hodgson
Buy new: £18.74 / Used from: £57.20 19th century British supernatural fantasy at its best.
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 | The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Perhaps not his best known work, but by far the best.
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 | Shadowland by Peter Straub
Buy new: £4.04 / Used from: £0.98 This book stays with me even 20 years after I first read it.
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass": His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £10.99 Simply stunning.
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 | Dark Towers Boxed Set by Stephen King
Buy used from: £12.04 The best thing King has ever written.
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 | Dragonflight (Corgi Science-Fiction) by Anne McCaffrey
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £0.01 The first book in the world-famous Chronicles of Pern.
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 | Old Kingdom Trilogy Box Set by Garth Nix
Brilliant!
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Boxed Set ("The Chronicles of Narnia") by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: £22.78 A much underrated series which gets better with each volume.
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 | Foundation (The Foundation series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £2.43 / Used from: £0.23 The classic work from the master of Science Fantasy.
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 | The Great Dune Trilogy: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune: "Dune", "Dune Messiah", "Children of Dune" (Gollancz S.F.) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £7.69 The broad sweep and breath-taking scale of this series make it unique.
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 | Ringworld (S.F. Masterworks) by Larry Niven
Buy new: £2.39 / Used from: £0.32 Niven's best work by far.
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 | Consider Phlebas (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Modern space opera from a master.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy used from: £2.24 One of the greats.
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 | The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Buy used from: £0.01 Inspiration for many modern invasion stories.
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 | Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner
Perhaps more of an adventure story, but a often overlooked classic nonetheless.
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 | The Martian Chronicles (Flamingo modern classics) by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.24 A undisputed classic from a brilliantly diverse author.
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 | Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy used from: £0.01 Suspenseful and exciting.
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 | Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.75 A classic from this Polish master.
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