 | Star Maker (S.F. Masterworks) by Olaf Stapledon
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.25 One of the greatest and most profound works of imaginative, philosophical fiction to ever have been produced. Learn more about humanity whilst travelling the vastness of the Stapledon's universe
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 | Brave New World (Voyager Classics) by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £4.74 The genius that was Aldous Huxley in arguably his finest work. To fully grasp the perspective the authour wrote this from i'd suggest reading his later work ' Ape and Essence' also.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £12.15 / Used from: £3.00 The classic dystopian future. Opens up the deeper aspects of how society functions, as relevant today as the day it was published...
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 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: £4.80 Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is the funniest sci fi ever written and it's deeper significance becomes relevant only with reading of all 5 books in the series. Read and fall in love with Adams
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 | Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.18 Much more contemporary than the other books in this list, and by no means less imaginative. An author to watch out for in the future
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 | Naked Lunch (Harperperennial Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Buy used from: £2.75 Mess around in Burroughs' mind. This book screws with you for long after the pages have been closed.
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 | Behold The Man (S.F. Masterworks) by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.19 Religion and science fiction fused into one all encompassing social commentary. Laugh, reel in horror and be surprised at this ones breadth
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 | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift) by Edwin Abbott
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Before Einstein, before Quantum Physics there was flatland. Beautiful tale which will open your mind onto a higher dimensional plane
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 | Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The novel which became 'Blade Runner' (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £2.20 One of the most under rated, insanely wonderful genius' that was Phillip K Dick. Read as many books of his as you can get hold of (and there are hundreds) but best off starting here...
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 | Slaughterhouse 5 (Vintage Crucial Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: £9.56 Vonnegut at his best. Witty, charming, with a tendancy to make you laugh, cry and wonder all at once.
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 | Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku
Buy used from: £3.68 Not sci fi, but sci fact. Journey into unknown regions of reality and never look at the Universe in the same way again. Beautifully written, wonderfully imaginative delivery. Read this...
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 | Utopianism (Concepts in the Social Sciences) by Krishan Kumar
Buy used from: £18.45 to acheive Utopia is surely mankind's greates wish. What is it and how come humans get so wound up in pursueing it? This explores some of those themes beautifully.
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 | The Faber Book of Utopias
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £6.96 More Utopias, this time extracts + delvings amongst them. From ancient Egyptian Poetry depicting perfect worlds, to post apocalyptic visions of perfection after the fall. There is a lot to dwell on.
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 | Go: a Complete Introduction to the Game (Beginner and Elementary Go Books) by Cho Chikun
Buy used from: £19.08 Get this and play the most ancient, most complicated yet simplistically beautiful board game on the planet. Fundamental laws of reality apply only
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £11.99 Thought i'd put this in seen as i'm about to read it. Scarily epic beginning just by glancing at the pages. LOTS to get through here. Apparently a fictional work of a new kind
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