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The Guardian's 1000 novels everyone must read: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Broken into seven categories: love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel. This is the list of the books placed in "science fiction and fantasy."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction

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1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
2. Non-Stop
by Brian Aldiss
  
3. Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback))
by Isaac Asimov
  
4. The Blind Assassin: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
5. The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
by Margaret Atwood
  
6. In the Country of Last Things
by Paul Auster
  
7. The Drowned World
by J.G. Ballard
  
8. Crash: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
  
9. Millennium People
by J.G. Ballard
  
10. The Wasp Factory: A Novel
by Iain Banks
  
11. Consider Phlebas
by Iain M. Banks
  
12. Weaveworld
by Clive Barker
  
13.
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 Darkmans
by Nicola Barker
  
14. The Time Ships
by Stephen Baxter
  
15. Darwin's Radio
by Greg Bear
  
16.
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 Vathek. William Beckford (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Beckford
  
17. The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
  
18. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
19. Lost Souls
by Poppy Z. Brite
  
20. Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale
by Charles Brockden Brown
  
21. Rogue Moon (Gold Medal SF, L1474)
by Algis Budrys
  
22. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
23. The Coming Race - Lytton
by Edward Bulwer Lytton
  
24. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
25. The End of the World News: An Entertainment
by Anthony Burgess
  
26. A Princess of Mars (Penguin Classics)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  
27. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
by William S. Burroughs
  
28.
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 Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
  
29. Erewhon
by Samuel Butler
  
30. The Baron in the Trees
by Italo Calvino
  
31.
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 Influence
by Ramsey Campbell
  
32. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
  
33. Through the Looking - Glass and What Alice Found There: With Fifty Illustrations
by Lewis Carroll
  
34. Nights at the Circus (Oberon Modern Plays)
by Angela Carter
  
35. The Passion of New Eve
by Angela Carter
  
36. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
  
37. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics)
by G.K. Chesterton
  
38. Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact)
by Arthur C. Clarke
  
39. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
  
40.
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 HELLO SUMMER, GOODBYE.
by Michael. Coney
  
41. Girlfriend in a Coma
by Douglas Coupland
  
42. House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
by Mark Z. Danielewski
  
43. Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation (New Press International Fiction)
by Marie Darrieussecq
  
44.
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 The Einstein Intersection
by Samuel R. Delany
  
45. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Oxford Bookworms Library)  
46. The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
  
47. Camp Concentration: A Novel
by Thomas M. Disch
  
48. Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
  
49. Under the Skin: A Novel
by Michel Faber
  
50. The Magus
by John Fowles
  
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