 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 This book that has never been bettered; not by film, not even by Frank Herbert and certainly not by his son Brian.
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 | Foundation (The Foundation series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 The Cold War novel that speaks of the importance of nuclear weapons and planning ahead
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 | 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy used from: £0.01 The book makes a lot more sense than the film, and it does make sense, honest.
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 | The Swarm: A Novel of the Deep by Frank Schätzing
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 A SF disaster story that is good to read while waiting for a plane, but not before a swim
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 | Ender's Game (The Ender saga) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.85 Military SF that is the answer to Starship Troopers
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 | Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Buy used from: £0.01 Steampunk SF that may be for young adults, but is a cracking adventure and good read
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 | American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £2.29 Is it science fiction, fantasy or horror? Who can say when it has won awards for all these categories?
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Is the definitive article the book, film, computer game, record, TV program or radio show? Everyone has their favourites, but they are all still very funny.
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 | Revelation Space (Gollancz S.F.) by Alastair Reynolds
Buy used from: £0.01 Sometimes, finding out the truth might not be in your best interest.
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 | Coalescent: Destiny's Children Book One: Homo Superior (Gollancz S.F.) by Stephen Baxter
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Two stories in one, or just the beginning and end told concurrently?
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 | Kethani by Eric Brown
Buy new: £6.54 / Used from: £0.64 Eternal life is a good thing, isnt it? But while you are pondering the answer, drink some more beer.
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £1.48 The most beautiful telling of the most horrid end of the world.
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 | Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Average pre-teen fantasy
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 | The Skylark of Space by E.E., "Doc" Smith
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.67 The wonderfully OTT adventure that created Space Opera
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £3.43 The chilling projection of a soviet totalitarian state in Britain. George Orwells 1948 dystopian classic that gave us Big Brother, Room 101 and a determination that this must never happen here.
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 | The Player of Games (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.02 A gripping story in the Culture series. If you have not read any Iain M Banks (not to be confused with Iain Banks ;-), then this is a good place to start with this leading British author
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 | Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night by David Mack
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.29 If you love Star Trek you will like this
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 | Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A journey into the strange world of the autistic. Not so much science fiction as near-future fiction
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 | Startide Rising (Uplift Trilogy) by David Brin
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 A compelling read and enjoyable space opera, as the plucky Earth folk show the Johnny aliens a thing or two
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 | The Many-coloured Land (The Saga of the Exiles) by Julian May
Buy used from: £0.01 Classic sci-fi fantasy where future humans meet the original faeries 10 million years in the past
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 | Powers (Annals of the Western Shore) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.14 Nebula award winning novel from the grand old lady of crossover fantasy and surreal science fiction
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 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £1.31 Winner of the 2007 Nebula and 2008 Hugo awards for best novel
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 | Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £2.05 2007 Hugo best novel winner
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 | Timescape (S.F. Masterworks) by Greg Benford
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.14 1980 Nebula winner
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