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Soulless - Gail Carriger
Affinity Bridge - George Mann
Clockwork Heart - Dru Pagliassotti
Whitechapel Gods - S.M. Peters
Extraordinary Engines - Nick Gevers, Ed.
Court of the Air, Kingdom Beyond the Waves, Rise of the Iron Moon - Stephen Hunt
Swiftly - Adam Roberts
Mainspring, Escapement - Jay Lake
Boneshaker - Cherie Priest
Difference Engine - William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
Steampunk - Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, Ed.
Homunculus - James Blaylock
Light Ages - Ian MacLeod
Teen:
Mortal Engines, Infernal Devices, Predator's Gold - Philip Reeve
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
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I appreciate your list, but I'd add Infernal Devices by K. W. Jeter, Lord Kelvin's Machine by James P. Blaylock plus The List of Seven and Six Messiahs by Mark Frost. And maybe also my personal favorite - The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. Best wishes, t.
Good list. I would add an "archaeological" work: Michael Moorcock "A Nomad of the Time Streams" trilogy (Cpt. Oswald Bastable).
I'd also be tempted to add the Dungeon series by Philip Jose Farmer, as well as China Mieville's Perdido Street Station and related books.
Olaf Meys
I wouldn't count "SnowCrash". Its more cyberpunk.
"Airborne" and "Skybreaker" by Kenneth Oppel are cool for the Zepplins.
Thanks for the added titles. I'd forgotten about Infernal Devices and Perdido Street Station. Some of the others I've never heard of, so that's great. Steampunk's an interesting subgenre. I've only read a few so far, but I've liked them all.
And thanks Jeff. When we put this display up in the store we didn't have enough steampunk so we used a few cyberpunk novels to flesh it out. I guess I forgot that Snowcrash was one of the cyberpunk titles. I've removed it from the list.
Good list. Beside the books mentioned in the other comments I would add following books:
The Osiris Ritual by George Mann
The PAX BRITANNIA series
Unnatural History by Jonathan Green
El Sombra by Al Ewing
Leviathan Rising by Jonathan Green
Human Nature by Jonathan Green
Evolution Expects by Jonathan Green
The House of Storms by Ian MacLeod
The Alchemy Stone by Ekaterian Sedia
Thunderer by Felix Gilman
Gears of the City by Felix Gilman
Flaming London by Joe R. Lansdale
Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon W Dahlquist
The Dark Volumeby Gordon W Dahlquist
Teen/young List:
His Dark Materials series by Pullman. Good divergent timeline w/ zeppelin
Diamond Age isn't Steampunk either. It's set in the same world as Snow Crash roughly 100 years in its future, making it literally post-cyberpunk.
Interesting list. Would you have any recommendations for a short list for a middle-grade or YA reader just getting into Steampunk? Thanks, E
Sorry, E,
I don't know many middle-grade books. For YA, Leviathan's a great book without the controversy of the Pullman books. I haven't been watching teen closely to see what other steampunk novels have come out (too busy reading the dystopian novels).
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