The Wind Up Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi | 
Cyrus Darian And The Technomicron
by Raven Dane | 
Jani and the Greater Game
by Eric Brown | 
Kultus
by Richard Ford | 
The Alloy of Law
by Brandon Sanderson | 
The Aeronaut's Windlass
by Jim Butcher | 
Godspeed
by February Grace | 
The Horns of Ruin
by Tim Akers | 
The Alchemy of Stone
by Ekaterina Sedia | 
The Prophecy Machine
by Neal Barrett Jr. | 
The Buntline Special
by Mike Resnick | 
Pasquale's Angel
by Paul McAuley | 
The Falling Machine
by Andrew P. Mayer | 
Morlock Night
by K. W. Jeter | 
Contact
by Carl Sagan | 
Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem | 
Dark Space
by Jasper T. Scott | 
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson | 
Dark World
by B. V. Larson | 
The Speed of Dark
by Elizabeth Moon |
The Wild West Show travels by Zeppelin to perform before a Shogun, soon to be emperor of Japan, only to discover the Frankenstein monster is being whittled down slowly and ground into aphrodisiacs by the would-be ruler. Buffalo Bill, who, due to a recent accident, exists only as a battery powered head in a jar of liquid manufactured from the best that modern science and pig urine has to offer, along with Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, and a cast of historical as well as literary characters, rescue the monster, only to be shot down over the Pacific, where they are saved from sharks by Captain Nemo and his intellectual seal, Ned.