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10 best books like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Kevin J. Anderson): Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology, Superman, Last Son of Krypton, Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device, Superman: Infinite Crisis, The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum, The Hermetica of Elysium, Shades of Simon Gray, King Arthur, The Holmes-Dracula File, Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays

Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology
AuthorNick Gevers
ISBN1844166007
For those new to this sub-genre of speculative fiction, Steampunk basically refers to stories generally set during Victorian-era England that focus on steampowered devices that may or may not be examples of modern technology (steampowered cars, robots, ships, etc.) It's a bugeoning sub-genre...
Superman, Last Son of Krypton
AuthorElliot S. Maggin
ISBN0446823198
As the dying planet of Krypton tears itself apart, Jor-El, Krypton's greatest scientist, launches a tiny interstellar ship into the frigid void of space bearing its hold his only child - the infant who will become Earth's Superman. From his childhood in Smallville, to his emergence as Metropolis newsman...
Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device
AuthorTee Morris
From the imagination behind the award-winning Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series comes a steampunk novella to a legend from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

Aladdin is a street-wise thief that finds himself under the tutelage of a world-renown illusionist. He is escorted deep into...
Superman: Infinite Crisis
AuthorMarv Wolfman
Alternate worlds were once a hallmark of the DC Universe. Various Earths existed that were strikingly alike yet distinctly unique. The modern heroes of the Justice League of America existed on Earth-One while the Justice Society of America, their Golden Age predecessors, lived on Earth-Two. Infinite...
The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum
AuthorD.L. Mackenzie
The Apocryphal Memoirs Of An Eccentric Genius:

Nineteenth Century inventor Phineas Magnetron is a man on a mission in this first volume of The Magnetron Chronicles series, a faithfully executed parody of Victorian Era science fiction adventure tales, blending historical fact with improbable...
The Hermetica of Elysium
AuthorAnnmarie Banks
ISBN1908483067
1494 Barcelona. Thousands of books and manuscripts are lost to the flames as the Black Friars attempt to purge Europe of the ancient secrets of the gods and the bold new ideas that are ushering in the Renaissance. Words are Nadira’s life. She is pursued as passionately for her rare skill as a reader of...
Shades of Simon Gray
AuthorJoyce McDonald
ISBN0440228042
Simon Gray is the ideal teenager — smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon crashes his car into The Liberty Tree, another portrait starts to emerge. Soon an investigation has begun into computer hacking at Simon’s high school, for it seems tests are being printed out before...
King Arthur
AuthorFrank T. Thompson
ISBN0786890835
I'll admit, at first I was confused. When I think of King Arthur, I imagine a young, handsome boy pulling a sword from a stone. I imagine battles with dragons and mythical creatures. I imagine a hundred brave knights at a round table, dutifully serving Arthur, their righteous king.

Yet in the...
The Holmes-Dracula File
AuthorFred Saberhagen
ISBN0441342450
1887 London, Queen Victoria's Jubilee approaches, a mad man of science prepares to unleash thousands of plague infected rats, a bizarre killer is leaving a trail of bloodless corpses. The Count joins the World's Greatest Detective in an effort to avert public disaster and avenge an enemy. The events...
Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays
AuthorBrendan Burford
ISBN0345505298
The stories in Syncopated challenge convention, provide perspective, and search out secret truths–all in the inviting, accessible form of comics.

Syncopated will give you a daringly different view of the past–from the history of vintage postcards to the glory days of old Coney Island....
Grass for His Pillow, Episode 1: Lord Fujiwara's Treasures
AuthorLian Hearn
ISBN0142404233
Lord Fujiwara's Treasures begins the second book in the Tales of the Otori, serving as the first act of Grass for His Pillow. If this is confusing, welcome to the club. Grass for His Pillow is the second book, but it's published in two parts, this one being the first. It's not even a complete story, since...
Sang Spell
AuthorPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN0689820062
Josh is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn't ask for and doesn't want, when he is beaten, robbed, and abandoned beside a remote mountain road. He awakes in a strange, primitive village called Canara, seemingly hidden from the modern world, with no cars or telephones...
The Best Poems Ever: A Collection of Poetry's Greatest Voices
AuthorEdric S. Mesmer
ISBN0439296749
Just in time for National Poetry Month, a fantastic collection of some of the best poems ever.

These are some of the most amazing poems ever written, touching the heart, challenging the mind, and conjuring worlds of experience and imagination.

Included are poems by:
Emily Dickinson
Edgar...
The High King's Daughter
AuthorDebra Doyle
ISBN0816769974
Wrapping up Randal's story. This and The Wizard's Castle, like the first two, are tied strongly to the earlier ones, and each other.

Randal, Walter, and Lys are escorted to Elfland by Madoc -- who can't come with them. They must go alone to bring back the High King's daughter and rightful heir....
Steampunk'd
AuthorJean Rabe
ISBN0756406439
Steampunk can be defined as a subgenre of science fiction that is typically set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian setting, where steam power is prevalent. Consider the slogan: "What the past would look like if the future had come along earlier." The stories in this all-original anthology...
Flaming London
AuthorJoe R. Lansdale
ISBN1596060255
Ned Lives!

That's right. Ned the Seal of Zeppelins West survived the shark attack from his last adventure, and he's back in a new escapade starring Jules Verne, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells and his Martian invaders, as well as a number of surprise guests you may or may not recognize.

Yes, my...
R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth
AuthorJohn Kendrick Bangs
ISBN1883402638
Contents: I. Introducing Mr. Raffles Holmes
II. The Adventure Of The Dorrington Ruby Seal
III. The Adventure Of Mrs. Burlingame's Diamond Stomacher
IV The Adventure Of The Missing Pendants
V. The Adventure Of The Brass Check
VI. The Adventure Of The Hired Burglar
VII. The...
The Dark Knight
AuthorDennis O'Neil
ISBN0425222861
Based on the blockbuster Warner Bros. Pictures film starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger.

Allied with both the police department and the district attorney's office, the vigilante known as Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City.

But one man dares to mock Batman's...
Wonder Woman: Mythos
AuthorCarol Lay
ISBN0743417119
I was with this book for the first few chapters. The setup of the story is well developed, the author does not fall into the trap that overcomes most super hero novels by wasting pages on the background of the characters, and so she shows good focus. Unfortunately, the good dissipated into the turgid as...
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0812524683
About a hundred years ago, a group of mutant supermen began playing a major role in our affairs. It is no accident that Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Doc Savage were (are?) contemporaries. Nor was it accidental that their biographers titillated their public with hints of their true natures...
Verity Hart vs. the Vampyres Omnibus
AuthorJennifer Harlow
KEEP CALM AND STEAMPUNK ON

The whole of Victorian London knows there is something not quite right about the Lady Verity Hart. She may be the daughter of an MP and the sister of famed inventor Lord David Hart, but she is a spinster whose own father threatens to send her to the madhouse every fortnight....
Final Crisis
AuthorGreg Cox
ISBN0441018572
The novelization of the superhero event starring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the heroes and villains of the DC Comics Universe

Victorious at long last against his enemies on the world of New Genesis, Darkseid has unleashed the forces of Apokolips on Earth. With the secret of the Anti-...
Batman: The Stone King
AuthorAlan Grant
ISBN0743417100
Superman. Batman. Wonder Woman.The Flash. Green Lantern.

They are the world's greatest super heroes, fighting endlessly against corruption and injustice. Each of them alone is a formidable opponent of evil, but banded together their powers are unmatched. Ever ready, they stand united...
Batman Forever
AuthorPeter David
ISBN0751514209
Of the three film novelizations I have read so far, this one was the best. Although I started it over a year ago and wasn't impressed with the beginning of the book, I think I may just have been burned out a little from reading superhero novels at the time, having read the first two Batman movie novelizations...
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