 | The Foundation Trilogy by ISAAC ASIMOV
Buy used from: $19.20 Asimov made science fiction what it is today - not just through his prolific writing but also in the credibility he lent the genre and the support he gave other by putting his name behind their short stories. Many consider the Foundation Series to be his masterpiece. The work does span generations and universes - it's what got me hooked on sci-fi at 17 years old.
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 | Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.91 The government recruits prodigal children for an intergalactic war. A true model of great sci-fi.
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 | Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 If you like Ender you won't be able to help yourself - read this one too.
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 | Xenocide (Ender, Book 3) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Book three ... Ender and his family are on a different planet but are still grappeling with the issues of inter-species relations.
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 | Children of the Mind (Ender, Book 4) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Forth book of the Ender's series ... everything after this was written later and has little to do with Ender's perspective. I found myself losing interest ...
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 | Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A dense world of plot, intrigue, battles and characters in a future fully realized in this amazing story. Read at least the first three. So much better then the movie - though I recommend that as well.
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 | Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, Book 2) by Frank Herbert
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 | Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 3) by Frank Herbert
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 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: $26.75 Sarcastic, Ironic, Hilarious - especially if you like British humor. Just get them all in one - believe me, after you've read Hitchhiker's Guide you'll be buying them anyway.
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 | The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.39 Russell has written one of the most realistic, touching, strange alien encounter books I've ever read. What if the Catholic church funded the first mission to an alien planet? An amazingly overlooked book.
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 | Children of God (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Mary Doria Russell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.77 The Sparrow's very interesting sequel.
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 | The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Buy used from: $0.94 A not too subtle look at the mentality of war - but in space. Soldiers train for other planetary atmospheres, come back decades after they left (due to travel time), and few have any real idea what the whole thing is about. A sobering work - especially these days.
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 | Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
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 | Robot Trilogy: The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Buy used from: $18.88 Classic Asimov - and really, you can never have enough of him. He can write robots like noone else who ever lived.
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 | Gateway (Heechee Saga) by Frederik Pohl
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.00 An incredible look at what humans would do to obtain the relics of an alien species - when they are worth billions a piece and can only be gotten through dangerous, random space jumps in the alien's old ships - which noone really knows how to use.
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 | Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2) by Frederik Pohl
Buy new: $17.10 / Used from: $8.05 2nd Heechee Book - if you like the first you'll be compelled to continue.
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 | Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl
Buy used from: $0.53 Here's the third, just to round out the trilogy, though it's nowhere near as good as the first.
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 | Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler
Buy new: $12.91 / Used from: $3.99 On a post-apocalyptical Earth aliens come to harvest what's left of our genes - by forcing us into their inter-species breeding program. Lots of imagination here. I hope to add more sagas by women as I find them.
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