Steampunk Science Fiction

Try these books if you are looking for:

• Steampunk (a sub-genre of Sci-Fi)
  
• Sci-Fi
• Historical fiction with some Sci-Fi/Fantasy
• Adventure

Leviathan
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F WESTERFE
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

Boneshaker
By Cherie Priest
SCI-FI PRIEST
Commissioned to build a machine that will promote gold-rush land-breaking efforts between Civil War-era Seattle and Alaska, inventor Leviticus Blue inadvertently triggers the release of a deadly gas that transforms people into the living dead, a situation that prompts his teenage son to restore the family reputation years later.

The Hunchback Assignments
By Arthur Slade
YA F SLADE
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.

Steampunk: Stories
Edited by Ann VanderMeer
SCI-FI STORIES STEAMPUN
Presents stories about mechanistic golems, infernal machines, airships, alternative histories, other planets, and how the genre has influenced movies, television, comics, and the Internet.

Perdido Street Station
By China Mieville
SCI-FI MIEVILLE
In squalid and brutal New Crobuzon, a Garuda requests eccentric crisis theorist Isaac to work with lab specimens, particularly a caterpillar that feeds on a hallucinatory drug until its evolution, when it will invoke malignant terror.

The Difference Engine
By William Gibson
SCI-FI GIBSON
In London of 1855, celebrated paleontologist Edward Mallory gets mixed up with Charles Babbage, the inventor of an advanced calculating machine run by his elite group of clackers.

Airborn
By Kenneth Oppel
YA F OPPEL
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.