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Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
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Start with The Man in the High Castle →

The Difference EngineNovel

William Gibson & Bruce Sterlingstandalone novel1990

Steampunk, about political intrigue, set in british isles and 19th century.

“The computer age arrives a century early with Babbage's perfection of his 'analytical engine'.”
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Eden (Harry Harrison)Series

series5 books1984

completed

About survival and war, 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 →

Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
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Start with Elric of Melniboné →

includes Oswald Bastable, Warrior of Mars, Eternal Champion, The Elric Saga

The Leviathan TrilogySeries

series3 books2009

Steampunk, adventurous in tone, set in early 20th century.

“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 →

The Iron DreamNovel

Norman Spinradstandalone novel1972

Satire, about war, set in mid 20th century.

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