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1886 (The Strange Case of) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
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1959 A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M Miller Jr
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1961 A Fall of Moondust
Arthur C Clarke
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1983 Amtrak Wars
Patrick Tilley
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1967 Behold the Man
Michael Moorcock
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1932 Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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1954 Childhood's End
Arthur C Clarke
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1968 Chocky
John Wyndham
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1956 Cities in Flight
James Blish
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1999 Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
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1951 Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
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1965 Dune
Frank Herbert
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1985 Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
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1953 Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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1818 Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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1964 Greybeard
Brian Aldiss
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1982 Helliconia Trilogy
Brian Aldiss
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1950 I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
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1864 Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
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1930 Last and First Men
Stapledon, Olaf
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1967 Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
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1638 Man in the Moone
Bishop Francis Godwin
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1953 More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeon
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1984 Neuromancer
William Gibson
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1967 Night Walk
Bob Shaw
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1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
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1958 Non-Stop
Brian Aldiss
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2000 Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
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1991 Raft
Stephen Baxter
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1972 Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C Clarke
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1970 Ringworld
Larry Niven
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1937 Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon
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1961 Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein
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1991 The Aleutian Trilogy
Gwyneth Jones
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1994 The Child Garden
Geoff Ryman
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1955 The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
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1938, 1943, 1945 The Cosmic Trilogy
C S Lewis
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1987 The Culture novels
Iain M Banks
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1972 The Dancers At The End Of Time
Michael Moorcock
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1956 The Death of Grass
John Christopher
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1951 The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
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1978 The Dreamsnake
Vonda N McIntyre
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1962 The Drowned World
J G Ballard
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1951 The Foundation saga
Isaac Asimov
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1979 The Fountains Of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke
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1986 The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
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1951 The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
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1897 The Invisible Man
H G Wells
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1953 The Kraken Wakes
John Wyndham
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1971 The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula Le Guinn
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1969 The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula Le Guin
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1909 The Machine Stops
E.M. Forster
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1963 The Man In The High Castle
Philip K Dick
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1992 The Mars Trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson
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1947 The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
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1974 The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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1996 The Night's Dawn trilogy
Peter F Hamilton
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1967 The Pern series
Anne McCaffrey
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1995 The Prestige
Christopher Priest
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1956 The Stars My Destination (aka Tiger, Tiger)
Alfred Bester
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1894 The Time Machine
H G Wells
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1898 The War of the Worlds
H G Wells
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1924 We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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