Anything by China Mieville. His Bas Lag series (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council) definitely fit the bill of sci-fi (or fantasy steampunk, at any rate) with solid world-building.
Very dark books, but very well constructed. Plus the heroes, or at least anti-heroes, are all dirt bag anarchists and China is a comrade. Ruthlessly anti-authoritarian books.
Anything by China Mieville. His Bas Lag series (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council) definitely fit the bill of sci-fi (or fantasy steampunk, at any rate) with solid world-building.
Very dark books, but very well constructed. Plus the heroes, or at least anti-heroes, are all dirt bag anarchists and China is a comrade. Ruthlessly anti-authoritarian books.
Thanks! I was just thinking about editing to add basically all of this.