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Gollancz's Science Fiction Masterworks series - new design (2010 onwards)
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The Stars My Destination
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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The Forever War
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Gateway
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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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The City and the Stars
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A Scanner Darkly
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Frankenstein
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The Word for World Is Forest (Hainish Cycle, #5)
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)
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Childhood's End
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The Sirens of Titan
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Inverted World
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The Lathe of Heaven
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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Ubik
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The Gods Themselves
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Lord of Light
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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)
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The Female Man
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Non-Stop
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Starship Troopers
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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Neuromancer
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
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Hard to Be a God
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
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Tau Zero
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Grass (Arbai #1)
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
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The Demolished Man
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The Day of the Triffids
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The Invisible Man
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I Am Legend
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Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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The War of the Worlds
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The Affirmation
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The Doomed City
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Cat's Cradle
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The Fountains of Paradise
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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Last and First Men
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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The Penultimate Truth
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A Fall of Moondust
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The Rediscovery of Man
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus
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Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun, #1-2)
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Always Coming Home
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The Space Merchants (The Space Merchants, #1)
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The Body Snatchers
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The Embedding
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Babel-17
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Blood Music
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The First Men in the Moon
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Dangerous Visions
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Harlan Ellison (Editor, Contributor)
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The Chrysalids
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Eon (The Way, #1)
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Monday Starts on Saturday
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Star Maker
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Rogue Moon
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This Is the Way the World Ends
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Earth Abides
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The Prestige
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Sword & Citadel (The Book of the New Sun, #3-4)
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Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)
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China Mountain Zhang
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1)
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The Door Into Summer
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Man Plus (Man Plus, #1)
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Greybeard
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Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis
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Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
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Slow River
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More Than Human
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Dying of the Light
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Mockingbird
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Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1)
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Norstrilia
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Bring the Jubilee
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R.U.R. / War with the Newts
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The Caltraps of Time
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Synners
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City
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Feersum Endjinn
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The Wind's Twelve Quarters / The Compass Rose
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The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
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Random Acts of Senseless Violence
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Raising the Stones (Arbai, #2)
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184 books ·
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list created November 4th, 2017
by Lior Kogan (votes) .
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gollancz, science-fiction
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Dec 04, 2017 02:53AM
I love the series but while some of the cover designs are really good, some are... questionable.
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"In the Days of Humans: Third Exodus" by Terry R. Hill should be removed.I'm a bit unsure whether JG Ballard's The Drowned World should also be removed - AFAIK it was only published in the "old design" SF Masterworks series?
White Powder of Gold by Sarah Brewer shouldn't be on this list. (I really appreciate sticking with the cover designs!)
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