 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £1.99 Incredibly well-written classic SF, darker than you imagine
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 | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £4.70 / Used from: £2.50 The start of an exciting fantasy saga
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 | The Stars My Destination (Gollancz S.F.) by Alfred Bester
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 Funny, vicious, cool
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 | The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Buy used from: £1.85 Moving, scary, intense
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 | The Invisible Man (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells
Buy new: £0.56 / Used from: £0.30
and his other early masterpieces, the indisputable father of SF and, unlike Verne, still very much enjoyable today
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 | Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
Buy used from: £6.69 A consistent and effective writer, unafraid of classicism a plus!
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 | Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.50 A little, clever, quite subversive novel
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 | American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.34 Fascinating, astute and quite subversive too
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 | The Stand by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.46 Difficult to pick only one of his books, but this might be the one to bring to a desert island
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 | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.52 / Used from: £14.88 An obvious, I mean indisputable, choice
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