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Originally Posted by dworth
I'd heartily recommend China Meiville's books. Many of them are set in a dark, steampunk fantasy world, centred around the vast sprawling metropolis of New Crobuzon. They're quite surreal but beautifully written.
Also, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's 'The Difference Engine'. A book which pretty much invented steam punk single handedly and is set in an alternative history of the mid nineteenth century where Charles Babbage's analytical engine was a great success and now Britain is run by mechanical computers.
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China Meiville's books I would agree would be good examples of dark urban fantasy for sure, sometimes too dark for me though. Not sure about William Gibson as being necessarily dark but rather more adventure with a tech bent, so Cyberpunk...though I've only read two of his books that I can recall...Snow Crash and Diamond Age.
It's not an ebook and I am not certain it qualifies as urban or not, but George Alec Effinger's Budayeen series of stories and books are fun. The settings could be considered urban and stories are somewhat dark in theme but I feel they might more crossover stuff but written before there were such genre definitions. My favorite of the series is When Gravity Fails.