Book Riot's 10 of the Best Historical Science Fiction Books

"The origins of science fiction are rooted in science and experiments and imagination: writers are always looking at the past and present to inspire their ideas about what might come about in the future. Science fiction, then, will always become enmeshed in history eventually. But what about science fiction that actually explores history or reimagines it? This sub-genre of science fiction, historical science fiction — sometimes a subset of alternate history — features stories where science and sci-fi concepts play a pivotal role in a historical setting. Retro-futurism is a great example of this, and several of the books on this list fall under that category. You might also be familiar with steampunk, which can overlap with historical science fiction. All of this to say, there's a lot more to historical science fiction than you probably imagined. So let's look at ten great examples of what historical science fiction can be." - bookriot.com