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The Leviathan TrilogySeries
series3 books2009
About genetic engineering, set in europe.
“Set in an alternate First World War, Leviathan splits the belligerents into Clankers, who fight with mechanical walkers, and Darwinists, who fight with fabricated living creatures built from spliced DNA.”
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Start with Leviathan →
Eden (Harry Harrison)Series
series5 books1984
completed
About survival and aliens, set in prehistoric.
“Harry Harrison's Eden trilogy imagines an Earth where the dinosaurs never died out, evolving instead into the Yilane, a technologically advanced reptilian civilization that shares the planet uneasily with early humans.”
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Start with West of Eden →
Clash of Eagles / The Hesperian TrilogySeries
series4 books2010
Tense in tone, set in north america.
Start with Clash of Eagles →
DarwiniaNovel
Robert Charles Wilsonstandalone novel1998
About expeditions and faith and religion, set in jungle.
“From the front flap of the Tor first edition: In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters.”
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Destroyermen UniverseSeries
series20 books2008
Military science fiction, tense in tone.
Start with Into the Storm →
The Wild Blue and the GrayNovel
William Sandersstandalone novel1991
War & military, about race and racism, set in europe.
“Fifty years after the South won the Civil War, a representative of the Cherokee Nation is attached to a Confederate air squadron fighting in France.”
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