Railsea by China Miéville - it is a marvel of imagination and world building. G.S. Denning's 'Warlock Holmes' series always makes me laugh out loud with Holmes

Railsea by China Miéville - it is a marvel of imagination and world building. G.S. Denning's 'Warlock Holmes' series always makes me laugh out loud with Holmes cast as a rather unstable magician being bailed out by the ever-logical Watson. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi foresees dystopian cities and cutthroat water rights along the Colorado river.