 | Planet Called Treason by Orson Scott Card
Buy used from: $3.88 Thought provoking, interesting characters, one man's odyssey across a planet of prisoners, each with their own amazing talents.
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 | Treason by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.89 A little different from the original. This update is just as good.
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 | Threshold by David R. Palmer
Buy used from: $2.06 Difficult to find a copy, and a little cheesy at times, this is a story which I've read at least 10 times.
If you're a self-made millionaire, and a beautiful alien comes to ask your help in saving her world, what could you do excpet say 'YES'!
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 | Hour of the Horde by Gordon R. Dickson
Buy used from: $0.01 An oldy but a goody. This is classic Gordon R. Dickson! The protagonist is a physical and emotional cripple at the beginning of the story, but ultimately finds out how to save the world.
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 | The Universe Between, 1967, (paperback) by Alan E. Nourse
Buy used from: $1.95 It's difficult to find this book, but if you can...GET IT!
If you are thrust in between the universe you live in, and the next universe over, you may come out insane...or see the world in a new way.
It's another tale of self discovery, well written by a writer of classic science fiction.
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 | Armageddon 2419 A.D.: The Seminal "Buck Rogers" Novel by Philip Francis Nowlan
Buy used from: $0.88 The story that started the Buck Rogers mythology. It was written long ago, but the characters and concepts are still fresh and exciting nearly 100 years later.
I'm so glad this is now available on the Kindle, for new generations to read.
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 | Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.99 If you've not read this, then you don't read science fiction.
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 | The True Game by Sheri S. Tepper
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.99 In the land of the true game, you may discover that you're powerful enough...to be used as a piece in someone else's war.
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 | The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber) by Roger Zelazny
Buy new: $17.27 / Used from: $7.74 If you've never read any of the Amber series, you're in for a treat. Buy all ten of these in one package, and then get ready for a week where you're completely unproductive.
Oh, and there's an authorized prequel trilogy by John Betancourt...not bad either.
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 | Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.98 The best of his books! Read this one and then read everything else he has written.
If you liked Ender's Game, you'll like this.
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 | The Man Who Never Missed by Steve Perry
Buy used from: $2.98 It's got combat, martial arts, morality, something called a Spetzdod...? Trust me, you'll like it.
Plus, there's a ton of books in the series you'll like too.
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 | Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1) by Jim Butcher
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.64 A Wizard private investigator.
There are 11 of these in the series so far, and I think they've gotten better with each book.
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 | Jumper: A Novel by Steven Gould
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The original, much better than the movie.
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 | Wildside by Steven Gould
Buy used from: $3.99 You find a portal to another Earth, one in which Humans never evolved.
What would YOU do...
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 | Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.13 If you're basing your purchase on the movie...DON'T.
This is classic Heinlein, and a sci-fi MUST READ!
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 | The Magic of Recluce (Recluce series, Book 1) by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The first book of his best series. A new take on "good vs evil" in a world where magic follows some very specific rules.
The only trick is that the books are written in non-chronologic order. Try this one first, and then read them all.
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 | Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy
Buy used from: $0.01 Once you have mastered Thaumaturgy, you must then master the four remaining classes of magic...or die! One man's journey across a magic realm, from apprentice to master.
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