The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

Harkaway presents us with a hell that is left when the weapon to end all wars instead ends the world as we know it. Humanity in this future is confined to the Livable zone: a thin strip alongside the Jorgmund Pipe which sprays out a substance known as FOX. Outside this safe area there are horrors, people don't stay people, there are mutants, all the dark things we were afraid of in the forests of our imaginations. Our narrator rides with lifelong friend Gonzo and the rest of the crew of roughnecks known as the Haulage and HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting Comapny of Exmoor County, corporate HQ the Nameless Bar. They are the troubleshooters of this new world and when the Jorgmund Pipe catastrophically explodes they are the ones sent into fix the breach. But something terrible happens to Gonzo and everything that we readers thought we knew gets turned on its head with a sickening lurch. Narration moves between the past, to life growing up with Gonzo in cosy Cricklewood Cove, school and finding peace with martial arts, across a glittering cast of characters moving across the post apocalyptic landscape of this new world to a terrible truth coiled at the heart of the Jorgmund Corporation. Bewitching and often confusing, but confused is where you should be cos then you start thinking

Nikolai Dante: The Romanov Dynasty by Robbie Morrison and Simon Fraser

Nikolai Dante first appeared in 2000AD.  It's the future and the Russian Revolution never happened.  In 2666 AD Nikolai Dante, son of a pirate, swashbuckler, rogue, seducer, swordsman, thief, vagabond is in Imperial prison.  Pardoned in return for completion of a misson he finds his heritage fighting alongside Jena, daughter of the Tsar.  On board a downed Romanov (rival family to the Tsar) spaceship he comes across a strange weapons crest which merges with him, granting supernatural powers and revealing his mysterious origins.  Great fun, well scripted and drawn

HG Wells The Science Fiction Volume 1

Absolutely fascinating, collection of four of HG Wells' novels, great to read and see how someone from over 100 years ago saw the future.

The Time Machine. 
As with most of Wells' stories, this is in Victorian fashion a story within a narrative.  The story is narrated in first person by a unnamed narrator who relates the adventures related to him by the Time Traveller who builds a device that takes him into the far future to witness the destiny of humanity, who have devolved into two separate species, the white skinned fearsome Morlocks who live underground, are photosensitive and who feed on the feckless beautiful Eloi, who lead a blithe daylight existence on the surface.  An imaginative reflection on the future of our species based on the contemporary split of society into the indolent elite and the work burdened proletariat.

The Island of Doctor Moreau
The narrative of Charles Prendick, gentleman and scholar, is prefaced by an introduction stating that Prendick's written account follows but that the said gentleman subsequently lost his memory and did not remember the events given in his written account, and that the narrative has been released after his death by his nephew, again giving it the unreliability of a second hand account whilst also allowing it to be presented as a document of curiosity, something present writers don't often do and which adds a fascinating layer.
Prendick is shipwrecked and picked up by the Ipecacuanha where he meets Montogomery, a strange man accompanying a menagerie including a puma, several large fierce dogs and rabbits on their journey to an unidentified island.  Prendick is thrown off the ship by the captain at the island and is allowed ashore to meet Dr Moreau.  The horror of the island is slowly unfolded via Prendick's first person narrative, that Moreau cuts up animals and makes them into human-like beasts which haunt the island and in the end kill Moreau and revert to the beastial natures of themselves.  Truly chilling

The War of the Worlds
Just as thrilling as when it was written, but also really interesting to reflect on Wells' narrative of how the coming of the Martians would have affected people at the turn of the century and how things had to change for Steven Spielberg's 2005 film.  In Wells' book the news of the coming of the aliens travels slowly and the rise of the tripods comes as a shock to a society unused to horror and human slaughter, in the film the news and panic travels instantaneously via the mass media and the horror is communicated via the destruction of the innocence of Dakota Fanning's slow withdrawl from screaming hysteria into catatonic silence.

The First Men in the Moon
I hadn't heard of this one before and I think it's overlooked, very brilliant thinking and again a reflection on the nature of society.  Mr Bedford, a gentleman with debts who has fled to the south coast to escape bankruptcy and to write a play which he hopes will restore his finances, meets Mr Cavor, a brilliant scientist who is working on a substance that will block all forces, including gravity.  The difference between the purity of Cavor's scientific mind and Bedford's avoricious nature are revealed by Bedford's quick realisation of the potential of a substance that can block even gravity but after Cavor succeeds in his creation and almost destroys the entire atmosphere of planet earth he instead creates a spaceship which via anti gravity takes Cavor and Bedford to the moon.  Here Wells' imagination creates a fascinating world where the answer to the Moon's low night temperatures and airlessness is a society that lives beneath the surface in caverns stretching down to a core lunar sea.  These Selentites shepherd the wonderful Mooncalfs on the surface during the lunar day and return at night, and each Selenites is individually physically and mentally tuned to their individual purpose, books replaced by Selenites with enormous brains that are repositories for knowledge, workers with great arms designed for their individual job, presided over by the Grand Lunar.  Wells is pretty damning about human nature, Bedford's bloody humanity comes to the surface and he kills a number of the Selenites and escapes back to earth, but Cavor is recaptured and manages to communicate his experiences of Selenite society to earth by radio before making his own fatal mistake. 

Pastworld by Ian Beck

A really entertaining read.  The year is 2050 and the world is a little bland, but for those with the money they can escape via airship to Pastworld, a futuristic theme park, a re-creation of Victorian London in all it's immensity, dirtiness and viciousness.  No electrical or electronic items are allowed, anything brought in by the visitors (Gawkers) has to be authentic.  In this world of gaslight, horse drawn cabs, poverty and noise lives Eve, a 15 year old girl who does not know that the stars above her head are a sky dome and that her guardian's reluctance to let her go outside is to protect her from the knowledge that her London is not real.  When Eve runs away from home a carnival of adventure and excitement is set in motion with a fabulous cast including a Jack-the-Ripper style villan with his band of dangerous raggedy men, carnival acrobats, bearded women and dwarves, pickpockets and spiritualist seances.

kimmie66 by Aaron Alexovich (writer and illustrator)

kimmie66 is the virtual best friend of Telly Kade, an ordiary girl living in the 23rd century where people spend much of their lives and meanigful life experiences within the 'lairs', virtual experience worlds which are rigidly segmented from each other and based on lifestyle choices such as sci-fi futuristic / goth loner / moog warlord style / elves and dragons etc etc. When kimmie66 sends a message to Telly that she has committed suicide but her avatar continues to appear in the lairs Telly goes in search of the reality behind the vr of her world. Great art and ideas although a little thin on depth.