 | Last And First Men (S.F. Masterworks) by Olaf Stapledon
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.58 ethics explored through future history
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 | Timescape (S.F. Masterworks) by Greg Benford
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.14 about time-travel, research environments, and global disaster
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 | Black Easter, or Faust Aleph-Null (Penguin science fiction) by James Blish
Buy used from: £13.51 allegory on the perils of forbidden knowledge
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 | Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Buy used from: £0.01 identity explored; both funny and moving
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 | Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh
Buy used from: £0.45 cloning, psychological manipulation and political wickedness in Cherryh's Merchanter Universe
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 | The Man In The High Castle (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy used from: £13.67 alternate history, and moral courage
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| Shikasta: Re-colonised Planet 5 (Canopus in Argos) by Doris May Lessing
Buy used from: £1.46 pastiche sf: the Bible (and other things) as space opera
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 | That Hideous Strength (Voyager Classics) by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: £0.97 fictional reworking of Lewis's Abolition of Man; often prescient
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| Voyage to Arcturus (Fantastic fiction library) by David Lindsay
Buy used from: £1.03 Manichaeanism seen through imaginary biologies
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| The Humanoids (Sphere science fiction) by Jack Williamson
Buy used from: £0.01 marvellously ambiguous study of an ideal society
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 | The Final Encyclopaedia (Sphere science fiction) by Gordon R. Dickson
Buy used from: £0.01 flawed but moving study of human possibilities and the need for everyone to be a god
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 | Little, Big (Fantasy Masterworks) by John Crowley
Buy used from: £15.95 rich exploration of obsession, fairyland and time
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 | Pastwatch by Card Orson Scott
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.01 how history should have been,and perhaps will (?) be
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 | Past Master by R.A. Lafferty
Buy used from: £5.70 challenging Utopia
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 | Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.95 truth, dreams and the nature of human law; see http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/introduces/mirrlees.htm
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 | The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven
Buy used from: £8.11 ignore the misogyny and enjoy a complex first contact novel
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 | Quarantine by Greg Egan
Buy used from: £1.20 ideas more than character, as in every Egan
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 | Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn Trilogy) by Peter F Hamilton
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.01 the first part of a massive space opera, naturalizing folk-religion
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 | Aegypt by John Crowley
Buy used from: £8.56 first of a foursome, dealing with history, Bruno, John Dee, angels....
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 | Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Buy used from: £3.40 introducing the Singularity: the moment beyond which we cannot extrapolate our future!
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 | The Golden Age by John C. Wright
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.34 the first part of a highly intelligent and philosophically interesting space opera
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 | The Probability Broach by L.Neil Smith
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £7.15 the first and best of his Libertarian alternate histories
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