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universe14 books2001

Steampunk.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
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Start with Mortal Engines →

includes Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines, Mortal Engines Prequels, Anna Fang

City at World's EndNovel

Edmond Hamiltonstandalone novel1951

Tense in tone, set in small town.

“Cut off from everything and everyone they knew, the townspeople have to find a way to survive in a world that has nothing left to spare for latecomers.”
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The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution.

“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
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Start with The Hunger Games →

includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels

I Am LegendNovel

Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954

Horror, about vampires and last of their kind, set in mid 20th century.

“The last human survivor of the vampire epidemic has to maintain his defences against their onslaught, while attempting to research the cause and possibly solution to the plague.”
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Riddley WalkerNovel

Russell Hobanstandalone novel1980

Challenging in tone, about coming of age, set in british isles.

“WorldCat: Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road.”
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Down to a Sunless SeaNovel

David Grahamstandalone novel1979

Tense in tone, set in near future.

“The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.”
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