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Slaves of New York by Tama Janowicz. The stories were clever; the movie was meh!

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (1986, but believe it or not this was the novel from which the anime was made)

That is a long time between drinks. Same year: Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree, Jr., which was the pseudonym of Alice Sheldon. Very unusual person. Spent time working for the CIA, as a photo analyst/retoucher, as well as writing science fiction.

Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home by the same

Jules Verne immediately leaps to mind. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Perhaps it's time to call a halt, seeing that your tolchocking skillz may be called upon elsewhere.

(Hope I don't get in trouble with the mods for the big spike in my post count.... )

Red October (connection should be obvious).

Go the Bene Gesserit!

Because there is a desert world in it as well, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. A utopian novel exploring themes of anarcho-syndicalism, the renunciation of ownership, and the way in which language shapes culture.

I don't think I have included it yet, so
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, because one of the central themes is language, and how it affects thought.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Set in 26th-century London, it features a society in which everyone is happy, peaceful and contented. However, this has been achieved by universal administration of mind-altering drugs, and by eradicating scientific inquiry, individual thought, familial alliances, and much else that is valuable in human culture. An "ironic utopia."

Tarzan Triumphant by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1932)

Burroughs wrote a lot of SF, much of it for magazine publication. Probably his best-known work in this genre is John Carter of Mars.

Doctor Who: GodEngine by Craig Hinton (about Mars)

Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Green Mars, Red Mars, etc. wrote Antarctica. In the not-too-distant future, various interest groups (scientists, ordinary workers, politicians, tourists, and eco-saboteurs (!) contend for dominance in Antarctica. (And struggle to avoid hypothermia....)