 | Ventus by Karl Schroeder
Buy used from: £3.07 An excellent blend of a fantasy quest, hard-edged science fiction and ideas about the intersection of nature and technology. Recommended.
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 | Learning the World: A Novel of First Contact by Ken MacLeod
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Entertaining, well written first contact novel. Not ground-breaking, but a good, solid read.
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 | Exterminate All the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist
Buy used from: £29.98 Fascinating blend of memoir, travel writing and history with some fascinating insights into the history of imperialism.
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 | Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in 19th-century India (International Library of Historical Studies) by Douglas M. Peers
Buy used from: £116.95 An informative look at the structure and nature of the colonial state in India
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 | Black Man (Gollancz S.F.) by Richard Morgan
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £0.01 Quiet simply, wow. Possibly the best science fiction release of the year. Wonderfully well written. Dark and brutal in the usual Morgan style.
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 | Saturn Returns (Astropolis) by Sean Williams
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first book I have read by this author and I will definitely be reading more. The start of an exciting and innovative space opera
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 | As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
Buy used from: £0.12 A beautifully written, bizarre and oddly charming novel about a person in love with a person in love with a black hole.
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 | River of Gods by Ian McDonald
Buy used from: £0.01 Brilliant. Another excellent SF outing.
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 | More Than Human (S.F. Masterworks) by Theodore Sturgeon
Buy new: £4.93 / Used from: £1.68 A classic. Mutants may now seem cliche but the writing here is as fresh as it was fifty years ago.
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 | Birds, Beasts, and Relatives by Gerald Malcolm Durrell
Buy used from: £6.93 Hilarious sequel to My Family and Other Animals.
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 | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Buy used from: £0.01 An eye-opening look at how the post-invasion planning process for reconstruction in Iraq was fatally flawed
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 | Iraq,Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (Open Media) by Pratap Chatterjee
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 And a look at how the companies tasked with carrying our reconstruction took advantage of the flawed planning to mint money while botching the job.
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 | Babel Seventeen (Babel-17) (S.F.Masterworks S.) by Samuel R. Delany
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.93 Another SF classic. Space opera that is exciting AND intelligent
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 | Running Wild (Modern classics) by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £9.46 Short and sharp. Familiar Ballard themes still cutting in their presentation
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 | The Scar by China Mieville
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.90 Lush and vivid imagery and a world chocked full of magic, monsters and fabulous contraptions. Not quiet as gripping a story as Perdido Street Station though.
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