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1.		The Island of Doctor Moreau (Everyman Paperback Classics) from Orion Publishing Group, Ltd. Price: $53.46 Customer Review: H. G. Wells predates Sci-fiction. Most of his books in the field were written before the term was coined in the 1930s. Along with Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, and Robert Louis Stevenson, his work laid the foundation for almost every major form of Science Fiction. Just as many other books written since... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The War of the Worlds (Oxford World's Classics) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $22.64 Customer Review: Sadly, I just couldn't get into The War of the Worlds. It dragged from word one. It was short and didn't take a long time to read, but it seemed like forever. I've been recently coming to appreciate some alien stories, but this one fell flat. The ending struck me as an easy way to end the novel and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $4.99 Customer Review: I had always heard this was a good book and it did not disappoint. I have not seen the movie so the book was not ruined for me, except picturing Jackie Chan Passepartout. Great adventure, now to see the movie.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $3.00 Customer Review: I recently reread Wells's THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU and was struck by how dated and stilted it was. I had the opposite reaction rereading THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. It evokes a different time and place, but it nonetheless remains a riveting adventure story. It evokes the late Victorian Age (though it may... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture from University of Pennsylvania Press Price: $15.75 Customer Review: I loved this book, so much in fact that it spoilt me for all the other texts in this field. Perhaps its the mix of authors and scholars that makes this so readable and enjoyable. Most of the articles are inspired, interesting and accessible to both scholars of the vampire and fans. Overall it made... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Hothouse: The Long Afternoon Of Earth (Ne Classics of the Fantastic) from IDW Publishing Price: $8.69 Customer Review: Hothouse is a 'fixup' novel originally published in 1962, comprising five novelettes originally published in 1961 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The combined novelettes were jointly awarded the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction (and not Best Novel as sometimes claimed: that... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Soft as Steel: The Art of Julie Bell from Running Press Price: $3.43 Customer Review: SPECIFICS: Page Count: 128 Number of images: 84 Small images: 24 Half page images: 11 Full page images: 41 2-page spreads: 8 BW images: 7 TEXT: 2 page introduction 2 page foreword Scattered text about the chapter's topic and the artist... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		The Coming Race from Broadview Press Price: $14.21 Customer Review: I'm something of a Bulwer Lytton fan, so I looked forward to this, one of his rare works in the field of speculative fiction. Oddly, though, here Bulwer tends to disregard even the science of the early 1870s in which it was written. It's the tale of a Gilded Age American mining engineer's encounter... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Non-Stop from Overlook TP Price: $2.44 Customer Review: Among my favorite science fiction books are two books published this decade- The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks and The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds. Also in my shortlist are paperback novels from years when even my dad was in his youth, such as Voyage of the Space Beagle by A.E. van Vogt and Tau Zero... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Helliconia Summer (Helliconia Trilogy) from I Books Price: $30.75 Customer Review: This is by far the best book in the series - not quite great, but an interesting book to read. The characters are vibrant, their motivations understandable, the plot at least somewhat plausible. As with all the Helliconia books, there are many loose ends and the author never quite made me care about... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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