Suggested Reading.

[Cheska]

A few months ago, Luna got me reading the Simon R. Green Nightside series. [Thank you Luna ]

So, I wanted to play it forward and toss out some books I think others would enjoy.

Taking Girl Genius and putting it into pure text, we have "Agatha H. and the Airship City."
While I have followed the Girl Genius series from start to present, I think this book adds to the series in allowing more insight into the characters.

"That Darn Squid God." by Nick Pollotta and James Clay, a spoof on the Lovecraft theme of Victorian horror and beast from beyond the stars.

"Shadows over Baker Street." Again, playing on the Lovecraft mythos but with a twist of Holmes and Watson chasing down the mystery. Edited by Michael Reaves and John Pelan. a series of short storys by some really great writers.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

'Skin' and 'Kink' by Kathe Koja. She has been a massive influence on my writing style.

The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gillman. If you haven't read this, you don't understand the last century of literature. IMHO. OK, IMNSHO.

Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite - gruesome, horrifying, cannibals. Two forces of evil on a collision trajectory.

The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Part of a new trend in non-euro-centric science fiction. Post enviro-apocalypse. Brilliant.

The Quantum Theif by Hannu Rajaniemi - science fiction with ideas that go further than most, and language that sings.

Threshold by Caitlin Keirnan - Ms. Keirnan is a moden lovecraft, and it shows in this.

River Of Gods by Ian McDonald - another post-env-apocalypse, again, not eurocentric. The spiritual sucessor, in many ways, to Neuromancer.

 

[fr33ks33k]

If you like the Nightside, check out the Secret History series. It's Bond-parody sci-fi fantasy goodness.

I was actually very pleased with Niel Gaiman's American Gods.

Also, if you did cyberpunk stuff with a side of political intrigue try Peter F. Hamilton's Greg Mandel trilogy. Starts with Mindstar Rising, then goes to A Quantum Murder, and finishes with The Nano Flower.

Speaking of nano...there's a great book called Nano by John Robert Marlow.