 | Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy (Book Two)) by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite book of all time. Superb characters, plot and writing style. Dark gothic fantasy.
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 | Flowers For Algernon (Gollancz S.F.) by Daniel Keyes
Buy used from: £11.93 A wonderful, soulful story of a man's endeavor to become smarter.
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 | The Stars My Destination (S.F. Masterworks) by Alfred Bester
Buy new: £4.92 / Used from: £1.59 Tiger! Tiger! High octane rip-snorting ride fueled by Gully's Foyle's lust for revenge.
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 | Ubik (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £1.79 I had a bit of a PKD marathon recently, Ubik stood out the most. Clever, innovative and keeps you guessing.
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 | A Scanner Darkly (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.60 This is a very slow, dark, paranoid little tale, but is somehow compelling. Can't wait to see the film.
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 | The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.95 I think this is the most accomplished novel of Dick's. A fantastic concept; Nazis won WWII, and very believable.
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 | The Forever War (S.F. Masterworks) by Joe Haldeman
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.92 Haldeman's allegorical story about the Vietman War. Very touching in the end and the protagonist is immediately likeable.
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 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.88 An awesome story. It's short, quite fast paced and excellently written. Fantastic ending too. In fact, one of my very faves.
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 | Lord Of Light (S.F. Masterworks) by Roger Zelazny
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 A deep, interesting, mythical novel. Very odd and slow at first but definitely worth percevering with
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 | Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £2.85 Not as good as the legends would suggest but 10 times better than the film.
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 | Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01 I'm an Iain M. Banks fanatic and I re-read this recently. It's dark, well written but far too long! Go for Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons or Player of Games first.
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 | The Sirens Of Titan (Gollancz S.F.) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.79 Supposed to be humorous but wasn't really. Some fantastic ideas and it and it stays with you long afterwards. Worth reading for the ending.
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 | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 A classic. Not as good as 'Adventures....' but still brilliant.
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 | Nightfall One by Isaac Asimov
Buy used from: £0.01 5 shorts from the master. I preferred the expanded verson of Nightfall with Silverberg, but still a great story. The other 4 stories are great too.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Just finished this & I'm not taken with it at all. Made me chuckle a few times but the story is pretty weak. Enjoyed the film a lot more.
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 | Star Maker (S.F. Masterworks) by Olaf Stapledon
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.45 On this at the mo. An unbelievable example of the imagination run wild, especially as it was written in 1930s.
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 | The Glamour (Gollancz S.F.) by Christopher Priest
Buy used from: £2.70 About to sart this one. Sounds good.....
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