Steampunk

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"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the driedout bed of the old North Sea."The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, the sinister plans of Lord Mayor Mangus Crome can f...

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He succeeds in placing before the reader a vision of the world in cosmic time' Norman NicholsonThe Time Traveller knew that Time was only a kind of Space. The fantastic story of his adventures in a machine which could travel in any direction of Space and Time has captured the imagination of millions.H. G. Wells, one of the giants of twentiethcent...

A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror...

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no onenot even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a halfbird, halfhuman creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac i...

Prince Aleksander, wouldbe heir to the AustroHungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being di...

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.Where to go from there From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampireand then...

Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the earlynineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to timetravelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about t...

After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power and fear of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next poss...

Taya soars over Ondinium on metal wings. She is an icarus _x0097_ a courier privileged to travel freely across the city_x0092_s sectors and mingle indiscriminately among its castes. But even she can_x0092_t outfly the web of terrorism, loyalty, murder, and intrigue that snares her after a daring midair rescue. Taya finds herself entangled with the Forlore brothers,...

Love can never die.Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid_x0092_s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead or rather, the undead Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria a hightech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique er...

London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin_x0092_s son is Prime Minister. And steam is the power that runs the world. At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St. Ives, was expected to do nothing more than pour an elegant cup of tea, sew a fine seam, and catch a rich husband. Unfortunately, Claire_x0092_s talents lie not in the ballroom, but in the c...

The collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath the city. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld_x0092_s secrets hidden for reasons of his own. St. Ives and his stalwart friends investigate a string of ghastly crimes: ...

As they approach Adult,hood, Cat Barahal and her cousin Bee think they understand the society they live in and their place within it. At a select academy they study new airship technologies and the dawning Industrial Revolution, but magical forces still rule. And the cousins are about to discover the full ruthlessness of this rule....

Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you_x0092_re the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood. And when two society girls go missing, there_x0092_s no one more qualified to investigate.Now fierce Evaline and logical Mina must resolve their rivalry, navigate ...

It is 1973, and the stately airships of the Great Powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. The balance of power is maintained by the British Empire a most equitable and just Empire, ruled by the beloved King Edward VIII. A new world order, with peace and prosperity for all under the law. Yet, moved by the politics of envy and perverse utopi...

The first novel in Tim Akers' captivating steampunknoir series, The Burn Cycle. Captainturnedcriminal Jacob Burn is the unlikely survivor of two zepliner crashes. The first destroyed his career as a pilot, disgracing his nobleman father and ending his life of privilege. But the second threatens to destroy Burn's whole worldVeridon, an ancient t...

Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattie discovers powerful and dangerous secrets secrets that can completely alter the balance of power in the city of Ayona. Howev...

Col is a wealthy child of privilege. Raised to succeed his grandfather as the Supreme Commander of the juggernaut Worldshaker, he has lived a pampered life on the Upper Decks. He has never questioned his place in the world or his bright and illustrious future. But when a Filthy girl stows away in his cabin, suddenly nothing is clear anymore. Quick ...

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska_x0092_s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue_x0092_s Incredible BoneShaking Drill Engine born.But on its first te...

It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire and an assorted group led by the scientist and explorer Professor Langdon St. Ives. Can St. Ives keep the alien homunculus ...

1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steamdriven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history and the future: Sybil Gerard dishonored woman and daughter ...

HE INHERITED A WATCHMAKER'S STORE AND A WHOLE HEAP OF TROUBLE. But idle sometimemusician George has little talent for clockwork. And when a shadowy figure tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, music and sexual intrigue. A genuine lost classic, a steampunk original whose time h...

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An outrageous trio of novellas that bizarrely and brilliantly twists the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of steampunk alternate history Welcome to the world of steampunk, a nineteenth century outrageously reconfigured through weird science. With his magnificent trilogy, acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo demonstrates how this unique subgenre ...

Magic is dangerous_x0097_but love is more dangerous still.When sixteenyearold Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London_x0092_s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Sh...

In the highflying, heady world of 1920s aviation, brash pilot Robert _x0093_Hitch_x0094_ Hitchcock_x0092_s life does a barrel roll when a young woman in an oldfashioned ball gown falls from the clouds smack in front of his biplane. As fearless as she is peculiar, Jael immediately proves she_x0092_s game for just about anything, including wingwalking in his struggling a...

Newly commissioned lieutenant, Alexis Carew is appointed into HMS Shrewsbury, a 74gun ship of the line in New London_x0092_s space navy. She expects Shrewsbury will be sent into action in the war against Hanover, but instead she finds that she and her new ship are pivotal in a Foreign Office plot to bring the star systems of the French Republic into the...

Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautifu...

Girl Genius, the multiple Hugo Award_x0096_winning steampunk webcomic by Phil and Kaja Foglio, now collected in hardcover!The Industrial Revolution has become allout war! Mad Scientists, gifted with the Spark of genius, unleash insane inventions on an unprepared Europe. For centuries, the Heterodyne family of inventors kept the peace, but the last Heter...

Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steampowered Technology,, and magicwielding warriors_x0085_Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mistshrouded surface of the world. W...

In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king_x0092_s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy_x0092_s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor tries ...

The Industrial Revolution has escalated into allout warfare. It has been eighteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over _x0097_ and terrorizing _x0097_ the hapless population with their bizarre inventions a...

Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all...

Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the midafternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears; leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Vic...

Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of ragged fighter craft, they run contraband, rob airships and generally ...