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A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Is goodness still "good" if it's not a choice? Given that we're all exposed to persuasive powers on a daily basis, do any of us really still have "choices"? Is violence still violence when it is...
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published in 1886 (and, yes, the original publication intentionally and infuriatingly left out the definite article that would have made the title...
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Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Huxley always maintained that Brave New World was actually inspired by the utopian novels of H.G. Wells. He originally intended the book to be a satire, a "negative utopia" sending up all the novels...
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The Martian – Andy Weir
The blurb on the front cover of The Martian says the Financial Times called it "Gravity meets Robinson Crusoe". Indeed, like Gravity, the most compelling thing about The Martian is its premise: an...
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy actually began as a radio series, first broadcast on 8 March 1978. Adams didn't adapt it to book form until the following year, but it's a good thing he did because...
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Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is widely regarded as the best of Ray Bradbury's works. It's set in an unspecified city (probably somewhere in the American mid-West) at an unspecified time in the future (probably...
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Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The original full title was "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", though most modern editions (including mine, see above) exclude that subtitle, which is a shame because it tells us a lot about...
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Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is widely regarded as the best of Ray Bradbury's works. It's set in an unspecified city (probably somewhere in the American mid-West) at an unspecified time in the future (probably...
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Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The original full title was "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", though most modern editions (including mine, see above) exclude that subtitle, which is a shame because it tells us a lot about...
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Her Body And Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body And Other Parties is a collection of eight short stories, all wildly different. Machado ricochets from magical realism to horror to science fiction to comedy to fantasy to epistolary, so fast...
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Frankissstein – Jeanette Winterson
We're never too old to try something new. Jeanette Winterson, of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit fame, decided to have a crack at writing the trans experience last year with Frankissstein. In that...
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Under The Dome – Stephen King
Under The Dome starts on 21 October, when a small (fictional) town in Maine is completely cut off from the rest of the world by a large invisible dome that appears seemingly out of nowhere...The post...
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