 | Gateway (S.F. Masterworks) by Frederik Pohl
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.49 In converging story lines Fred Pohl writes a book that is, in it's last half, un-putdownable.
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 | Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga) by Frederik Pohl
Buy new: £10.25 / Used from: £4.67 Takes the Gateway millieu and pushes it. You think 'Gateway' is good?
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 | PROTECTOR by Larry Niven
Buy used from: £12.14 A book that brought home to me how big the universe is
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 | Lord Of Light (S.F. Masterworks) by Roger Zelazny
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.31 One for anyone that thinks SF is just starships and aliens
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 | In the Hall of the Martian Kings by John Varley
Buy used from: £0.25 Two of these shorts have been turned into films. Read and find out why John Varley is such a good writer
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 | Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Buy used from: £3.40 Two books in one about a future that a lot of us will live through.
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| The Era of Rapprochement: 40,000 in Gehenna (Daw Science Fiction) by C.J. Cherryh
Buy used from: £3.75 A classic on human-alien interaction. Slow and intricate, I can read it again and again
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 | Startide Rising (Uplift) by David Brin
Buy used from: £0.17 A great book, relentlessly optimistic and hugely enjoyable thereby.
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| Black Easter by James Blish
Buy used from: £3.56 Not strictly SF but deeply wonderful nonetheless. The best novel he wrote.
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 | Blood Music (S.F. Masterworks) by Greg Bear
Buy new: £5.13 / Used from: £0.12 One to scare the pants off you if you understand what's going on.
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 | In the Ocean of Night (Galactic Center) by Gregory Benford
Buy used from: £0.01 Benford went on to write 5 sequels to this book but this is the best. Tackles 'alien-ness' in a way no-one else does.
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 | The Dispossessed (Perennial Classics) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: £8.51 / Used from: £5.07 I don't know why I like this book so much. There aren't any aliens and there's no big science. Must be because it's such a good read!
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