Books like Mythmakers & Lawbreakers by Margaret Killjoy

1818 novel by Mary Shelley about young scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox experiment.

Gideon the Ninth follows a sword‑wielding necromancer who must team up with a bone‑witch to survive a deadly trial of wits and combat under an emperor’s watch in a sprawling sci‑fantasy universe.

Inside a secret library run by a god‑like patriarch, orphaned apprentices must battle for control of humanity’s fate when their master disappears.

On the starship Dormire, clones of a murdered crew awaken in vats, each fearing the next bloodshed—but a new clone with no memory of her death must uncover the killer before another murder takes place.

In a post‑climate‑apocalypse Dinétah, monster hunter Maggie Hoskie teams with medicine man Kai Arviso to rescue a missing girl, uncovering a terrifying secret that forces her to confront her past.

In the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, Aster, a dark‑skinned sharecropper aboard a space vessel resembling the antebellum South, contends with brutal overseers and relentless labels, discovering a possible way to spark a civil war and change her fate.

Two siblings, Ella and Kev, possess extraordinary powers that become a lens on structural racism and brutality in America. When Kev is incarcerated, Ella uses both ordinary visits and supernatural insight to guide him toward a revolutionary movement that could reshape society.

Isaac Asimov’s "Gold" collects a final set of science‑fiction short stories, reflective essays on the genre, and insights into the craft of writing, offering a definitive look at his 50‑year career.

A work of science‑fiction literature that examines the concept of time travel, the fourth dimension, and related theoretical issues.

The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent call for a corrective, for the recognition of a new meta- or supergenre of contemporary writing - feminist fabulation - which includes both acclaimed mainstream works and works which today's critics consistently denigrate or ignore. In its investigation of the relationship between women writers and postmodern fiction in terms of outer space and canonical space, Feminist Fabulation is a pioneer vehicle built to explore postmodernism in terms of female literary spaces which have something to do with real-world women. Branding the postmodern canon as a masculinist utopia and a nowhere for feminists, Barr offers the stunning argument that feminist science fiction is not science fiction at all but is really metafiction about patriarchal fiction. Barr's concern is directed every bit as much toward contemporary feminist critics as it is toward patriarchy. Rather than trying to reclaim lost feminist writers of the past, she suggests, feminist criticism should concentrate on reclaiming the present's lost fabulative feminist writers, writers steeped in nonpatriarchal definitions of reality who can guide us into another order of world altogether. Barr offers very specific plans for new structures that will benefit women, feminist theory, postmodern theory, and science fiction theory alike. Feminist fabulation calls for a new understanding which enables the canon to accommodate feminist difference and emphasizes that the literature called "feminist SF" is an important site of postmodern feminist difference. Barr forces the reader to rethink the whole country club of postmodernism, not just its membership list - and in so doing provides a discourse of this century worthy of a prominent reading by all scholars, feminists, writers, and literary theorists and critics.

A reader's journey through the postmodern era of literature, from classics to cyberpunk sci-fi and beyond.