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The 'Best of the Masterworks collection' editions of great and notable sci-fi stories, (re)published by Orion Publishing Group and Hachette UK. Paperback and hardcover.
This list recreates, in order, the list from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SF_Masterworks#The_Best_of_the_Masterworks_collection
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
4 stars
World War Terminus devastated the Earth. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard searches for the renegade replicants he is …
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
5 stars
Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone’s jokes – until an experiment in …
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
4 stars
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth … but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and …
Joanna. Jeannine. Janet. Jael.
Four women, four worlds, four vastly different societies.
When these women are suddenly able to communicate …
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
4 stars
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy.
But his …
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
4 stars
When a world of peaceful aliens is conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the …
4 stars
Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar …
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
4 stars
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin.
For the humans now settling the Amarantin homeworld, it’s of …
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, …
4 stars
What could be more innocuous than grass? Or more idyllic than a world covered with a wind-whipped ocean of verdant …
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
Black-cloaked Sarah Canary is the ugliest woman Chin Ah Kin could ever imagine. But after she wanders into a railway …
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
4 stars
Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, …
Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Борис Натанович Стругацкий
4 stars
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally …
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
4 stars
When Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a tropical island, he is surprised to find he has company in the form …
The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
4 stars
Mill Valley, Marin County, California.
Dr Miles Bennell has lived there all his life. But one day Miles sees a …
