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After London Or Wild England

After London Or Wild England

One of Mary Shelley's late novels, The Last Man, envisaged a world ravaged by plague in which humanity is wiped out. Although not well received at the time, the romantic...

Richard Jefferies Buy on Amazon
Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon

The concept for the book is rather involved. Peopleâs souls and memories can now be digitized and stored. Once stored, if something happens to you, the soul and memories can...

Richard K. Morgan Buy on Amazon
Broken Angels

Broken Angels

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the...

Richard K. Morgan Buy on Amazon
Takeshi Kovacs Novels

Takeshi Kovacs Novels

Do you like your science fiction with overtones of Humphrey Bogart? That's noir, baby. No-one does it better than Morgan. He writes noir-style cyberpunk with the terse clarity edged in...

Richard K. Morgan Buy on Amazon
The Running Man

The Running Man

Believe it or not, Stephen King didn't only write hokey horror novels that weren't particularly scary, with completely convoluted "why the fuck did the clown turn into an alien-spider" plots....

Richard Bachman/stephen King Buy on Amazon
I Am Legend

I Am Legend

There have been a host of novels about the last man on Earth, but usually they are isolated, exploring a world denuded of people. But what if the last man...

Richard Matheson Buy on Amazon
Bid Time Return

Bid Time Return

30-something screenwriter (sic!) is dying of a brain tumour and lives out his final days in a hotel, where he sees the photo of Elise, a famous actress from the...

Richard Matheson Buy on Amazon
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (cover not available)

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Ah, steampunk. While it didn't have a name for more than 30 years after 20,000 Leagues was released in 1954, you can trace so much of the steampunk aesthetic to...

Richard Fleischer Buy on Amazon
Superman The Movie (cover not available)

Superman The Movie

Not the first superhero film, but really the first superhero blockbuster. Richard Donner took Superman and turned him into a real-life human being in a way that even the comics...

Richard Donner Buy on Amazon
A Scanner Darkly (cover not available)

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick. He's a trip, man. He's probably most heady of all the science fiction authors of the 1960s, and adaptations of his work tend to give a thoughtful...

Richard Linklater Buy on Amazon
The Coming Of The Quantum Cats

The Coming Of The Quantum Cats

Imagine Stargate if it was set in the 80s sans MacGyver Richard Dean Anderson, and you've got The Coming of the Quantum Cats. Originally an Analog Sccience Fiction magazine series,...

Frederik Pohl Buy on Amazon
Deluge

Deluge

The idea of a drowned England had been a commonplace in British scientific romances since at least After London by Richard Jeffries, but it received its finest expression in Fowler...

S. Fowler Wright Buy on Amazon
Sent

Sent

Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury,...

Margaret Peterson Haddix Buy on Amazon
Aliens For Breakfast

Aliens For Breakfast

Adapted into a TV movie, Aliens for Breakfast is a whimsical sci-fi introduction for beginning readers, and it's exactly as silly as the title implies. It all starts when Richard's...

Stephanie Spinner And Jonathan Etra Buy on Amazon
The Fabulous Riverboat

The Fabulous Riverboat

In 1952, a young Philip José Farmer wrote a novel for a contest, and won. Unfortunately, the prize money was misappropriated, the novel was never published, and Farmer nearly gave...

Philip Jose Farmer Buy on Amazon
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (cover not available)

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

There are few films that impart a sense of spirituality like Close Encounters does. The story of humanity's first contact with aliens, and the individuals who become obsessed with the...

Steven Spielberg Buy on Amazon
Dark City (cover not available)

Dark City

The late 1990s produced some of the most thoughtful science fiction. Dark City begins as an amnesia story, but as it unfolds, we discover that the world itself is stranger...

Alex Proyas Buy on Amazon
Battlestar Galactica (cover not available)

Battlestar Galactica

The biggest trend of the 2000s was the re-imagining. Dozens of films, from Planet of the Apes to Freaky Friday, all got re-upped, turning into something much more palatteable to...

Glen A. Larson Buy on Amazon
The Outer Limits (cover not available)

The Outer Limits

The Twilight Zone's little brother, The Outer Limits, takes everything that made the former great, and then adds in a touch more science fiction to the mix. Like The Twilight...

Leslie Stevens Buy on Amazon
Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

Personally, I think Ayn Rand's novels always deserve a top 25 listing because of their progressive thinking and liberally sexual attitudes. Don't agree with me? Have fun with your Sunday...

Ayn Rand Buy on Amazon

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