Find your next SF/F read by mood

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Mortal Engines →

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

Saint LeibowitzSeries

series6 books1955

completed

About faith and religion.

“Together the two novels form a sparse, decades-spanning series about memory, faith, and the cycles of civilization.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Canticle for Leibowitz →

The Amtrak Wars / The Talisman PropheciesSeries

series6 books1983

completed

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, set in far future.

“The conflict plays out across six novels published between 1983 and 1990, plus a companion guidebook; a planned continuation never appeared.”
from the catalogue

Start with Cloud Warrior →

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Hunger Games →

includes The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games prequels

Hello AmericaNovel

J. G. Ballardstandalone novel1981

About ecological collapse and expeditions, set in desert.

“The plot follows an expedition to a North America rendered uninhabitable by an ecological disaster following an energy crisis.”
from the catalogue

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dune →

includes Dune, Dune Sequels, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

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