 | Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.75 Spectacularly unusual and absoutely riveting. You would have to be dead not to be amazed by the level of imagination here.
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 | The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.02 And the first people to visit our newly discovered galactic neighbours - the Jesuits! Stunning and the sequel is a must read too.
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.99 Almost too clever (but to my mind, not). As post-modern as a book gets - started out as a sequence on the internet. Makes me wonder if influenced, in conception at least, by Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
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 | Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.40 See my review.
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 | The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.11 By the end you feel like you are in the same dream/nightmare and not sure whether you want to wake - or can.
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 | Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Buy used from: $0.01 And pretty much anything else he's written!
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 | City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1) by Tad Williams
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 First of a series that is well worth making your way through.
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 | The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery by Amitav Ghosh
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $3.95 Mystical nature of disease!!!
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 | Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The master of capturing the zeitgeist of the next generation that the rest of us can only guess at. Sometimes wonder if Gibson has actually discovered time travel.
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