 | The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Buy used from: $4.95 Very different brushstrokes from the UK. Wyndham's cool.
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is the original cover of this masterpiece. Hell, I interviewed him once. Read this now.
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 | Schismatrix Plus (Complete Shapers-Mechanists Universe) by Bruce Sterling
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.96 Sterling is widely considered to be 2nd only to Gibby in the cyberpunk genre. This is his masterpiece.
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 | The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: $49.94 Okay, now a word from our sponser of both the two gentlemen mentioned previously..Ballard. The man.
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 | The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 I first read "Blue Champagne" as a loan from a friend and become a Varley fan for life.
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 | Gravity's Rainbow (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $3.39 I like my old dog eared trade copy of GR better than this one, but you should still read this anyway.
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 | Interzone by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.71 For the druggie portion of the audience..I've yet to see a badly produced version of this.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $11.02 / Used from: $4.49 My parents picked up a copy of this for me for Christmas once and this is probably the best overall SF standard of his work - or at least the most accessible.
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 | Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling
Buy used from: $0.49 File this one under "kickass SF short stories". Read, re-read, and stir unto infinity..
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 | Valis by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.67 Everyone's always talking about Neal Stephenson and Snow Crash. Try reading this before you start filling your lists up with the same 3 guys.
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 | Iris by William Barton
Buy used from: $0.01 Don't read what the wussies say. This is modern hard edge SF that kicks ass. Lots of well placed SF people loved it, and so did I.
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 | Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
Buy used from: $8.74 More like jungle warfare SF, Lucius is the man. To quote my good buddy Mark Ziesing, you NEED this.
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 | Excession by Iain Banks
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.97 I'm embarrassed to say I haven't read this yet. Banks pretty much rules the UK when it comes to SF, and it's easy to see why.
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