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Best Cyberpunk Books (cover not available)

Best Cyberpunk Books

So here we have a sub-genre of science fiction that has a cool name, because of which its authors dress in leather jackets and wear mirror shades - at least...

Top 25 Military SciFi Books (cover not available)

Top 25 Military SciFi Books

Military Science Fiction is a subgenre that has always been around. Maybe it’s the fact that getting all those rockets, robots, and blasters would obviously require immense amounts of governmental...

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Pasquale's Angel

Pasquale's Angel

The cool thing about McAuley's hard science fiction, spanning biotechnology, alternate history and time travel, is that he's actually a posh botanist with a lovely accent, not a Sheldon Cooper...

Paul Mcauley Buy on Amazon
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (cover not available)

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Ah, steampunk. While it didn't have a name for more than 30 years after 20,000 Leagues was released in 1954, you can trace so much of the steampunk aesthetic to...

Richard Fleischer Buy on Amazon
Steamboy (cover not available)

Steamboy

Ah, Steampunk. The anime Steamboy is one of the finest examples of the genre ever put to film. The second film from the director of the legendary anime Akira, Steamboy...

Katsuhiro Otomo Buy on Amazon
Barnum!: In Secret Service To The Usa

Barnum!: In Secret Service To The Usa

Howard Chaykin is one of the finest comic creators in history. His work on titles like Amerikan Flagg, not to mention dozens of science fiction paperback covers, has made him...

David Tischman Buy on Amazon
The Alchemy Of Stone

The Alchemy Of Stone

Two women in a row on this list! This list could pretty much be recognized as an equal opportunity brand. (For the slower ones in the class, I feel I...

Ekaterina Sedia Buy on Amazon
Treasure Planet (cover not available)

Treasure Planet

Some films are unjustly ignored, and Disney's Treasure Island might be the chief among them. One of the most thrilling animated features Disney has ever produced, it's absolutely beautiful, and...

Ron Clements And John Musker Buy on Amazon
Fullmetal Alchemist (cover not available)

Fullmetal Alchemist

The first few years of the 21st century were full of amazing anime series that made it to the US as a of the Adult Swim cartoon block. One of...

Hiromu Arakawa Buy on Amazon
Perdido Street Station

Perdido Street Station

Isaac Van Der Grimnebulin and his girlfriend, Lin, live in the city of New Crobuzun. It is a grimy, harsh metropolis - but then aren't all cities grimy, and harsh?...

China Miéville Buy on Amazon
The Difference Engine

The Difference Engine

In our top 25 dystopian list, we called him the King of Cyberpunk. In this delicious alternate history, steam punk offering, Gibson teams up with Bruce Sterling to serve up...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
The Inexplicables

The Inexplicables

In this fifth installment in the Clockwork Century steampunk adventure series, Rector "Wreck 'em" Sherman, a drug dealer haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know, sneaks...

Cherie Priest Buy on Amazon
Batman: Gotham By Gaslight

Batman: Gotham By Gaslight

Ah, steampunk. The genre itself was only cooling on the windowsill when Mark Millar and Brian Augustyn basically created the Elseworlds concept, taking Batman to a Victorian-era Gotham where a...

Brian Augustyn Buy on Amazon
The Peshawar Lancers

The Peshawar Lancers

S.M. Sterling’s Steampunk/Alternate History/Post-Apocalyptic novel The Peshawar Lancers has a lot of work to do! It tells a story of an Earth devastated by a massive meteor shower during the...

S. M. Stirling Buy on Amazon
Bioshock (2007) (cover not available)

Bioshock (2007)

Every title in this series has been stunning, but none can beat the first for its originality and polish. Bioshock quickly catapulted into success after its release, presenting a fresh...

2k Boston Buy on Amazon
The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel

The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel

There's an idea you sometimes come across that the dividing line between mainstream "literature" and genre fiction is rigid and unbreakable. That's nonsense. Writers have always crossed backwards and forwards...

Michael Chabon Buy on Amazon
Boneshaker

Boneshaker

Zeke Wilkes is a son out looking to regain his name. his Pa went and lost it when the drilling machine he invented tore up half of Seattle, and released...

Cherie Priest Buy on Amazon
Wonder Woman: Amazonia

Wonder Woman: Amazonia

Victorian Wonder Woman. That should be all it would take to put this title at the top of your to-be-read list. It's an incredibly prescient piece, where an 1888 bombing...

William Messner-loebs Buy on Amazon
The Angel Of The Revolution

The Angel Of The Revolution

With the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Europe faced the prospect of a united Germany and a major shift in the delicate balance of power. As a result stories started to...

George Griffith Buy on Amazon

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