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10 best books like Other Worlds Than These (John Joseph Adams): Steampunk, The Warlord of the Air, New Amsterdam, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, The Wolf's Call, Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables, Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, Morlock Night, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, Tails of Wonder and Imagination

Steampunk
AuthorJeff VanderMeer
ISBN1892391759
Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories. Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances—synthesizing imaginative...
The Warlord of the Air
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0441870600
Suppose that a few of our present inventions had been made earlier, and others not discovered at all? How would the last century have evolved differently?

This is the story of Oswald Bastable, a Victorian captain who found himself in such alternate worlds. It is based on notes handed down to...
New Amsterdam
AuthorElizabeth Bear
ISBN1596061065
Abigail Irene Garrett drinks too much. She makes scandalous liaisons with inappropriate men, and if in her youth she was a famous beauty, now she is both formidable--and notorious. She is a forensic sorceress, and a dedicated officer of a Crown that does not deserve her loyalty. She has nothing, but...
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
AuthorGenevieve Valentine
ISBN1607012537
Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin...

Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless...
The Wolf's Call
AuthorAnthony Ryan
Anthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song - book one of the Raven's Shadow series - took the fantasy world by storm. The sequels, Tower Lord and Queen of Fire were both New York Times bestsellers. Now, Anthony Ryan returns to the world of this acclaimed fantasy series with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling...
Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables
AuthorStephen L. Antczak
Combining the timeless fairy tales that we all read as children with the out-of-time technological wizardry that is steampunk, this collection of stories blends the old and the new in ways sure to engage every fantasy reader.…

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Red Shoes", New...
Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories
AuthorJoSelle Vanderhooft
ISBN1610401506
The fifteen tantalizing, thrilling, and ingenious tales in Steam-Powered put a new spin on steampunk by putting women where they belong -- in the captain's chair, the laboratory, and one another's arms. Here you'll meet inventors, diamond thieves, lonely pawn brokers, clockwork empresses, brilliant...
Morlock Night
AuthorK.W. Jeter
ISBN0586204385
I read this for a challenge. It was a challenge.

This is Steampunk, as I go with legs  kicking and arms flailing into a genre that two weeks ago I'd never even heard of.  Time machines; the infamous Merlin the Magician; an apocalyptic invasion;  long walks at night, not to mention a submarine...
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
AuthorSean Wallace
ISBN0762444681
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk showcases the very best in the form of stories by Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Cherie Priest, and many more.

An anthology that looks to the future through the lens of the past, these 30 mash-ups of past and future push the boundaries of steampunk.

This is...
Tails of Wonder and Imagination
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN1597801704
What is it about the cat that captivates the creative imagination? No other creature has inspired so many authors to take pen to page. Mystery, horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories have all been written about cats.

From legendary editor Ellen Datlow comes Tails of Wonder and Imagination,...
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN1616960698
Terrifying barbarians, cunning mages, and daring heroes run rampant through these exceptional examples of the exciting sword and sorcery genre. In “Tower of the Elephant,” Conan takes up jewel thievery but proves to be far better with his sword. “The Flame Bringers” finds antihero Elric...
The Stars at War II
AuthorDavid Weber
ISBN0743499123
Super-Size Your Science Fiction Adventure Sales! Two Complete Novels, One a New York Times Best Seller, in One Huge Volume, Co-Authored by the Creator of Honor Harrington. Contains Insurrection and The Shiva Option.

The war wasn't going well. The alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like...
Other Earths
AuthorNick Gevers
ISBN0756405467
Eleven original stories about the different paths our world might've taken...

Alternate history explores the many possible directions our world could follow if certain key events didn't occur at all or were changed in some crucial way. Is our Earth the only Earth, our reality the only one...
Extremis
AuthorSteve White
ISBN1439134332
The New Sequel to Exodus and the New York Times Best Seller, The Shiva Option.

Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxy—humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gorm—had united to defeat alien invaders. Decades later, the member planets of the alliance had grown complacent—until...
Miss Bramble and the Leviathan
AuthorKristen Painter
The last thing she planned to steal was his heart.

The Company. Military institution, protector of Praeton and the nation of Grand Isle. Dirty rotten thief.

When Pandora Bramble steps aboard the Company s premiere airship Daedalus it s not for the exclusive VIP tour. It s to secure...
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