Favorite Steampunk Settings
Discover the best steampunk settings in literature! Explore iconic worlds from Scott Westerfeld's *Leviathan*, Ian McDonald's *Desolation Road*, and more in this curated book list of favorite fictional realms.
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Sun of Suns
by Karl Schroeder
It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances.
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Gears of the City
by Felix Gilman
"As he struggles to recover the lost girl and piece the fragments of his life back together, Arjun knows he must finally return to the beast to hear the rest of its prophecy. But each step is more treacherous than the last . . . and the beast who knows his fate may pose the most deadly trial yet."--BOOK JACKET.
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Desolation Road
by Ian McDonald
Relates the history of a bizarre little town on the edge of the Martian desert over the course of its thirty-year existence.
