 | The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.78 A brilliant examination of the idea of utopias, and the human struggle to achieve them.
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 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Bradbury's timeless examination of censorship and the human drive to both impose and resist it.
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 | Brightness Falls From The Air by James Tiptree
Buy used from: $0.99 A complex story of widely differing characters brought together to witness the death of a world... and of their own pasts.
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 | The Female Man (Bluestreak) by Joanna Russ
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $2.36 A breakthrough novel that challenged many of the genre's ideas about gender roles.
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 | Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.14 The original Science Fiction story, this novel describes the effect of technology on the both the human body and spirit.
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 | The Narrows by Alexander C. Irvine
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.01 Half Science Fiction, half Fantasy, the tale of an average man caught up in extraordinary events.
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 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Enriched Classics Series) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $2.25 An early time travel story, and a commentary on both the modern age and the past.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.48 An extrapolation not of science but of society, this haunting novel forces us to confront where blind fear and ideology can lead.
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 | Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.00 Another dystopia, where science has been used to not only remake society, but humanity itself, and where pleasure, not pain, proves to be the ultimate danger.
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 | Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact) by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.69 A fascinating extrapolation of both the end of the world and the concept of rebirth.
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 | Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $2.00 A retelling of Indian myth in a technological world where immortality can almost be attained.
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 | The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.04 On a world where gender is fluid, LeGuin explores the meaning of male and female.
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