Mainstream SF for the cautious

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Report on Probability A
1.  Report on Probability A by Brian W. Aldiss
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  "An 'experimental' novel: if you like Borges, Robbe-Grillet or Joyce"
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The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
2.  The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard
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  "Metaphor and concepts in stories that can expand your mind: like those of William Burroughs"
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The Stars My Destination (S.F. Masterworks)
3.  The Stars My Destination (S.F. Masterworks) by Alfred Bester
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  "An unputdownable metaphysical space opera whodunit, if you like Alexandre Dumas the father or Eric Ambler"
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The Demolished Man (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
4.  The Demolished Man (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by Alfred Bester
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  "On the top of most lists for 50 years, it's Tourneur or Kidd meets Haruki Murakami"
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Golden Apples of the Sun (New Windmills)
5.  Golden Apples of the Sun (New Windmills) by Ray Bradbury
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  "A celebrant of small town America where something wicked this way comes: if you liked the films The Illustrated Man or Fahrenheit 451"
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The Terminal Man
6.  The Terminal Man by Crichton
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  "A well researched 'faction' on the impact of computers on human behaviour: if you're interested in the morals of scientific research"
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
7.  Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick by Philip K Dick
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  "Read his complete works, he's SF's greatest mind, but you've got to start somewhere: if you like Orwell or Kafka"
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Brave New World
8.  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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  "Not a good book, but the most quoted of the utopia/dystopia genre. Everybody knows it, nobody does anything about what it tells us"
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Flowers For Algernon (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
9.  Flowers For Algernon (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by Daniel Keyes
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  "Both a poignant tale of our inevitable decline and death and a critique of scientific irresponsibility: if you liked the film Charly"
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The Dispossessed
10.  The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
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  "Read the complete works, she's SF's greatest writer, this one looks at human nature, its politics and limited vision from the viewpoint of Lao Tse and Jung"
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The Eye of the Queen (Gollancz S.F.)
11.  The Eye of the Queen (Gollancz S.F.) by Phillip Mann
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  "The most plausible aliens you'll ever encounter, from H G Wells to James Cameron"
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A Canticle For Leibowitz: Book One: The Saint Leibowtiz Series
12.  A Canticle For Leibowitz: Book One: The Saint Leibowtiz Series by Walter M. Miller
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  "If only the Cold War powers had read this instead of stockpiling nuclear weapons: for those who wonder what the difference is between science and religion in building/petrifying a world"
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
13.  1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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  "Orwell was that rare being, an honest thinker, whose essays shed light on every subject he touched. He worried, when 1984 came, if anyone would notice. Have you? (if it's all right with Big Brother)"
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Pavane (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
14.  Pavane (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by Keith Roberts
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  "Often compared to The Man in the High Castle. These books remind us how unlikely the defeats of the Spanish Armada and of Hitler really were. Heisenberg, anyone?"
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Mindswap: A novel
15.  Mindswap: A novel by Robert Sheckley
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  "One of the most original minds in SF, Sheckley is also a wit, parodist and satirist writing in the tradition of Voltaire's Candide"
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Options
16.  Options by Robert Sheckley
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  "Satiric stories that take you over the (un)known universe and make you examine the catch-phrases, institutions and conventions you know as if for the first time"
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Time and Again
17.  Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak
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  "A mezmerisingly plotted time travel paradox tale, but with all the values associated with The Grapes of Wrath"
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Star Maker (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
18.  Star Maker (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by Olaf Stapledon
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  "Is this SF? Is the Divine Comedy SF?  Is the Odyssey SF? I've reviewed this book here"
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Roadside Picnic (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
19.  Roadside Picnic (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by Boris Strugatsky
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  "Working in the tradition of Swift and Gogol, the Strugatskys have taken ideas of interdependance of species found in Darwin and moved them to a galactic setting"
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
20.  Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree
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  "This psychologist turned writer produces some of the most intensely referenced, beautiful and moving work in SF: if you like Umberto Eco"
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The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells
21.  The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells by H.G. Wells
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  "Read all the scientific romances and all the short stories. Wells stretches the definition of SF, a genre he helped to form (and which he didn't recognise). More TV Star Trek than Star Wars"
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