![]() | Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn Trilogy) by Peter F Hamilton
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 To me, the definitive science fiction novel. What science fiction has set out to done, Hamilton has captured it all into one novel. Bloody brilliant.
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![]() | The Forever War (S.F. Masterworks) by Joe Haldeman
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.90 Why are the Vietnam war veterans always complaining about lack of recognition? Read this and you will cry and understand. A parable of the war by an actual Vietnam veteran. Thanks for fighting for us.
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![]() | The Coming by Joe Haldeman
Buy new: £4.21 / Used from: £0.01 Another brilliant work by Haldeman, a very entertaining portrayl of first contact. His characters are worth the price of admission alone.
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![]() | Contact by Carl Sagan
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.84 Prophetic account of first contact, this is a beautiful piece of work which you wish to come true. The movie is great as well.
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![]() | The Hyperion Omnibus: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion (Gollancz S.F.) by Dan Simmons
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £4.48 Epic and ambitious, Simmons' understanding of the human spirit makes this essential science fiction.
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![]() | Savage by Richard Laymon
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Laymon's first person perspective wins hands down. And when its blood and gore being seen in the first perspective, it's one hell of a ride.
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![]() | The Ignored by Bentley Little
Buy used from: £0.97 A unique reworking of the Invisible Man. Scary because it could happen in the way society is going. Watch out though, Bentley Little is one angry man.
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![]() | Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Dean Koontz sometimes loses it and gets it back. Here is his ultimate novel, encompassing every theme and idea he has, expanding it all into a wild adventure. And of course there's a dog in it.
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![]() | The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Bk. 1 by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.49 I hate Stephen King. But this ambitious tale of one man's act of redemption (by saving the world) gets you caught up in the journey. Romantic and epical.
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![]() | Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 Ok I still hate him, but I've gotta give it to him - this is genuinely creepy and genre-defining.
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![]() | Lightning by Dean Koontz
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £0.01 Key work in Koontz's collection. A tight thriller and an ending that'll throw you so far off, you'd better make sure you're sitting down properly.
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![]() | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.68 The classic vampire novel. Works in different levels creating different fears.
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![]() | Pastwatch by Card Orson Scott
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.01 Amazing alternate historical tale, this is a tightly written tale of man's attempt at redeeming itself. In lesser hands this would fall to pieces, but Card shows he is a brilliant story-teller.
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![]() | Ender's Game (The Ender saga) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £4.58 / Used from: £1.36 What's more left to say about this series? Ground breaking when it was originally released, and still holds up now.
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![]() | Deep Blue Good-Bye by John D. MacDonald
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £0.01 Ok not horror or science fiction, but do not read this if you don't have the time, or you'll end up reading every single one there is. Travis McGee is the knight in shining armour for us Joe Blows.
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![]() | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite of the series, probably because of the more mature issues it contains. Fun nonetheless.
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![]() | Northern Lights: Adult Edition (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The man has balls to be this ambitious, doing a re-write of the Creation tale in a children's novel. Absolutely amazing for kids and adults.
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![]() | The Poker Club by ed Gorman
Buy used from: £1.51 Only one I read of his, but I love it. It's horror because it could happen to anyone of us.
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![]() | Drive-in by Joe R. Lansdale
Buy used from: £9.99 Lansdale's ability to tell a tale with off-beat characters is pure fun. An ode to the drive-in cinema.
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![]() | Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.88 Absolutely positively screws with your head. Part sci-fi, part fantasy, part horror, this book is all class. Bold and beautiful in a nasty way.
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![]() | Needle in the Groove by Jeff Noon
Buy used from: £9.85 The novel to listen with your all-time favourite British record. This is the closest anyone has come to capturing the beauty of music with words.
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![]() | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 Crap it's Stephen King again. But the book is hard to book down. The movie is also very scary.
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![]() | American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Buy used from: £2.86 A brilliantly ambitious book that journeys to the heart of all myths. This is one road-trip that will take you somewhere you've never been before.
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![]() | The Neutronium Alchemist (Night's Dawn Trilogy) by Peter F. Hamilton
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £1.96 Second in the series continues to up the ante to the nth degree by introducing one of the most memorable villians in sci-fi. Ends with a chase sequence so stupidly ambitious, that it's brilliant.
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![]() | The Naked God (Night's Dawn Trilogy) by Peter F. Hamilton
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.78 Final in the series with all the multiple story lines coming to a meeting point; doing this is asking for trouble but Hamilton is a genius and pulls it off. Time to re-read the first one again...
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![]() | Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.47 Geeky and starting to be a bit dated with the future it presents (or maybe thats because its being copied by other authors so many times?). But at the same time, so utterly cool and enjoyable.
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