 | Flowers For Algernon (S.F. Masterworks) by Daniel Keyes
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.00 Everyone should read this, in fact it should be on the GCSE English curriculum.
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 | Replay (Fantasy Masterworks) by Ken Grimwood
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 A "What if?" masterpiece.
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 | Vurt by Jeff Noon
Buy used from: £1.78 The greatest Mancunian cyperpunk novel of all time. How has this been allowed to go out of print???
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 | Hyperion (Gollancz S.F.) by Dan Simmons
Buy used from: £0.57 Stunning. I'm still reading the sequels, but based on what I've read so far, this is a series that can transcend the genre an become an all-time literary classic.
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 | Valis (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £1.31 PKD's extraordinary semi-autobiographical musing.
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 | Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.91 Probably the best fantasy novel of the decade and the first of Mieville's Bas-Lag series.
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 | The Dancers At The End of Time (S.F. Masterworks) by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £6.61 / Used from: £3.00 Moorcock's finest hour. I'm not a big fan of his sword 'n' sorcery stuff, but this trilogy blew me away.
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 | The Anubis Gates (Fantasy Masterworks) by Tim Powers
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £3.94 Time-travel, Egyptology and Samuel Coleridge. Awesome.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £3.97 A unique book. This extended version almost reads like a philosophy lecture at times, but is no less amazing for it and shows what seems now amazing insight for the early 60's.
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 | The Iron Dragon's Daughter (Fantasy Masterworks) by Michael Swanwick
Buy used from: £70.95 Highly unusual dark fantasy
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 | Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Vandermeer's surely destined to be a fantasy legend if he continues like this. Shriek deserves your attention.
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 | Stand On Zanzibar by John Brunner
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £1.20 Brunner was a visionary, this is cyperpunk 20 years before the term was coined
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 | The Player of Games (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £0.43 IMB's finest hour, if you've never read him before this is a good starting point
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 | British Summertime by Paul Cornell
Buy used from: £3.28 Paul Cornell is best known as a TV writer having written episodes for Doctor Who, Primeval and, er, Robin Hood - but don't let that put you off, this is a brilliant, brilliant book.
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 | The Day of the Triffids (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Wyndham
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £2.44 An unforgettable experience. Read this and see it's influence on countless other books and films of the last 50-odd years.
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 | Grass (S.F. Masterworks) by Sheri S. Tepper
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.60 Feminist sci-fi? You'd better believe it.
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 | The Book Of Skulls (S.F. Masterworks) by Robert Silverberg
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.04 This was my first Silverberg, but he's written reams of great stuff.
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