The Half-Made World is a 2010 steampunk fantasy novel by British writer Felix Gilman. It is set in an alternate version of the American Wild West in which the Far West reaches of the world are untamed and still being created.
"Rogue Moon" by Algis Budrys: pulp SF that does a better job of explicating the problem that science is faced with--which is that the universe simply does not make sense to our monkey brains, so we have to learn to think in profoundly unnatural ways--better than anything else.
"His Master's Voice" by Stanislaw Lem, which I sometimes describe as "the only science fiction novel", because in it I can recognize myself as a scientist, which is otherwise fantastically rare.
@sunflower@bookstodon "Rat Bohemia" by Sarah Schulman
"Medusa Uploaded" by Emily Devenport
"The History of Luminous Motion" by Scott Bradfield
"The Tooth Fairy" by Graham Joyce
@sunflower@bookstodon The Other Side of the Moon, by Meriol Trevor, is an incredibly beautiful and thoughtful book written in a different time - before we knew what was on the back side of the moon (the same nothing as the front).
Trevor imagined a hidden society, a history, and a first visit from people on Earth, Brits and Americans, and what they learn - and in what they are forced to forget - to go home.
It's a novel intended for older children I still love at 74.
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