You might like some of the Paolo Bacigalupi windup world stuff. Some great belivable ideas, some that go too far beyond belivability for my taste, but I enjoyed

You might like some of the Paolo Bacigalupi windup world stuff. Some great belivable ideas, some that go too far beyond belivability for my taste, but I enjoyed it a lot. The basic idea is that there's an advanced society where for some reason electricity & electronics tech was never developed, so mechanical mechanism technology progressed instead.