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- His Dark Materials
series8 books1995
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His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll.
- The Anubis Gates
series3 books1983
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The Anubis Gates is a single time-travel fantasy novel by Tim Powers, following a present-day academic who takes part in a time-travel experiment and ends up stranded in early nineteenth-century London. It won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1983 and the Science Fiction Chronicle Award the following year.
- New Crobuzon
series4 books2000
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The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist. Perdido Street Station follows a renegade scientist and his lover after an experiment unleashes something monstrous on the city, while The Scar and Iron Council return to the same setting with different casts and only loose continuity between books.
- The Prestige
Christopher Prieststandalone novel1995
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A magician called Borden (at least in private) writes his own version of his life as a magician. There's a lot of focus on a trick, where he seems to move across any width of stage in an instant, and on a feud with another magician, Angier. The account includes passages, where he can't decide what exactly to write, arguing with himself. 3 generations later a Borden (at least biologically) learns about his ancestor. He's also convinced, he somehow has a twin brother, who's happy about this development.
- The Iron Dragon's Daughter
series3 books1993
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The Iron Dragon's Daughter follows Jane, a human changeling enslaved in a factory that builds part-mechanical, part-magical dragons used as war machines, in a Faerie that runs on industrial-age technology as much as spellcraft. Michael Swanwick wrote it as a deliberately recursive, spiral narrative rather than a straight line, and returned to the same colliding fantasy-industrial world, though not the same plot, in The Dragons of Babel and The Iron Dragon's Mother. The three books share a setting and sensibility more than a continuing story.
- Railsea
China Miévillestandalone novel2012
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Railsea is a young adult novel written and illustrated by English writer China Miéville, and published in May 2012. Miéville described the novel as "weird fiction", io9 labelled its mix of fantasy and steampunk elements as "salvagepunk" and the story has been seen as an "affectionate parody" of Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel Moby-Dick, also drawing on Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novels Treasure Island and Kidnapped.
- The Cinder Spires
series3 books2015
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Jim Butcher's Cinder Spires series opens with The Aeronaut's Windlass (2015), a steampunk fantasy set among tower-dwelling city-states where airships duel with etheric weapons and intelligent cats share the world with humans. Continuing with Warriorborn and The Olympian Affair, it marks a departure in setting from Butcher's contemporary-fantasy Dresden Files while keeping his fast-paced adventure style.
- The Lotus War
series4 books2012
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The Lotus War is Jay Kristoff's steampunk fantasy trilogy set in a pollution-choked, Japanese-inspired empire: Stormdancer (2012), Kinslayer and Endsinger, with the novella The Last Stormdancer as a coda. It follows a young woman who tames a griffin-like beast thought extinct, drawing her into a rebellion against the empire's oppressive Shogunate. It is a complete trilogy plus novella.
- Matt Cruse
series3 books2004
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Airborn opens Kenneth Oppel's trilogy with Matt Cruse, a cabin boy aboard a transoceanic passenger airship, who joins a search for a legendary flying creature whose existence no one can prove. Set in an alternate world built around long-distance airship travel, the series continues through Skybreaker and Starclimber as Matt's ambitions and the ships he crews grow more dangerous. The first book won Canada's Governor General's Award for children's literature in 2004.
- His Dark Materials Universe
universe13 books1995
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In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends. This is the country of His Dark Materials: a company of parallel worlds across which an invisible dust of consciousness drifts down upon the waking mind; where a Church that calls itself the Magisterium would sooner sever a child's soul than let that Dust be understood; and where a golden instrument, the alethiometer, answers true questions for anyone with the patience to read it. Philip Pullman's design stands in two trilogies and a scatter of shorter tales. His Dark Materials — Northern Lights (published in America as The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass — carries Lyra Belacqua from the rooftops of a shadow Oxford across the borders between worlds. The Book of Dust returns to that same territory: La Belle Sauvage looks back to Lyra as an infant carried through a great flood, while The Secret Commonwealth follows her grown and less certain into adulthood, with a concluding volume closing the arc. Around them sit slim companion books — Lyra's Oxford, Once Upon a Time in the North, Serpentine — and Nicholas Wright's stage adaptation, made with Pullman's blessing. The register is grave and luminous at once, its title lifted from Milton and its quarrel drawn from Blake: a story that takes the side of curiosity, love, and the physical world against any authority that would forbid them. It reads as adventure — armoured bears, aeronauts, knife-cut windows between skies — yet reasons like philosophy. Begin with Northern Lights / The Golden Compass and read the first trilogy through before turning to The Book of Dust, which deepens everything the first has already made you feel.
- Clockwork Angels
series5 books2012
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Clockwork Angels began as the concept behind Rush's 2012 album of the same name, which drummer and lyricist Neil Peart expanded into a full steampunk fantasy novel together with author Kevin J. Anderson. The pair continued the story across a graphic-novel adaptation, Clockwork Lives, and Clockwork Destiny.
- The Manual of Detection
Jedediah Berrystandalone novel2009
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The Manual of Detection is a 2009 novel by American writer Jedediah Berry. Berry's debut novel, it is set in an unnamed city and blends elements of pulp detective fiction, fantasy, steampunk, and surrealism. The narrative follows Charles Unwin, a clerk at a powerful detective agency who is unexpectedly promoted to detective after the disappearance of a celebrated investigator.
- Joe Golem and the Drowning City
Christopher Golden & Mike Mignolastandalone novel2012
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"An illustrated novel from the acclaimed creator of Hellboy--with over 100 illustrations. In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water, so that its residents began to call it The Drowning City. Those unwilling to abandon their homes created a new life on streets turned to canals and in buildings whose first three stories are underwater. Fifty years have passed since then, and The Drowning City is full of scavengers and water rats, poor people trying to eke out an existence, and those too proud or stubborn to be defeated by circumstance. Among them are fourteen year old Molly McHugh and her friend and employer, Felix Orlov. Once upon a time Orlov the Conjuror was a celebrated stage magician, but now he is an old man, a psychic medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left behind. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix Orlov is abducted by strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits. Molly finds herself on the run. Her flight leads her into the company of Simon Hodge, a Victorian detective who's kept himself alive with magic and steampunk mechanics, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past and true identity is a mystery to him, but who walks his own dreams as a man of stone and clay, brought to life for the sole purpose of hunting witches"--Provided by publisher. "In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water, so that its residents began to call it The Drowning City. Those unwilling to abandon their homes created a new life on streets turned to canals and in buildings whose first three stories are underwater. Fifty years have passed since then, and The Drowning City is full of scavengers and water rats, poor people trying to eke out an existence, and those too proud or stubborn to be defeated by circumstance. Among them are fourteen year old Molly McHugh and her friend and employer, Felix Orlov. Once upon a time Orlov the Conjuror was a celebrated stage magician, but now he is an old man, a psychic medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left behind. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix Orlov is abducted by strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits. Molly finds herself on the run. Her flight leads her into the company of Simon Hodge, a Victorian detective who's kept himself alive with magic and steampunk mechanics, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past and true identity is a mystery to him, but who walks his own dreams as a man of stone and clay, brought to life for the sole purpose of hunting witches"--Provided by publisher.
