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Yasmeen, captain of the airship Lady Corsair only loyalty is to her ship and her crew. Treasure hunter Archimedes Fox is interested in the captain and the valuable da Vinci sketch she stole from him. When it attracts a dangerous amount of attention, they journey to Horde-occupied Morocco- and straight into enemy hands.

Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written by real Victorians and Edwardians who saw the future potential of science and all its daring possibilities for progress and disaster before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity.

Jack has accidently transported himself and his sister to an alternate world where airships, steam engines, and Victorian-esque fashion is normal. He is torn between a longing for home and a longing to stay with Octavia Pye, the fiery captain whose airship he transported himself on.

Brothers Winchester, Remington, and Colt Jackson take up the family tradition of vampire and demon hunting in this steampunk western. Colt battles a vampire, fallen archangel, and a demon lord while looking for his father's Book of legends. He also encounters the succubus Lily, who is willing to make a bargain to become human again. Book one of the Legend Chronicles.

A collection of sixteen original steampunk stories featuring romance includes contributions from such authors as Jody Lynn Nye, Michael A. Stackpole, and Donald J. Bingle.

How can you resist the lovely Agent Eliza Braun in her bulletproof corset? Archivist Wellington Books manages surprisingly well considering she just rescued him from durance vile. (Of course he has a real dislike of guns. And Eliza’s fondness for dynamite is a little alarming.)

The Phoenix Society, a murderous cabal devoted to world domination and wife-swapping, is operating in the London shadows, but the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (the Crown's clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling) doesn’t seem interested.

Eliza isn’t about to let the matter rest and drags Books into the fray. . .

Queen Victoria has been replaced by a human/newt clone, Massachusetts is being invaded by monsters, and Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman travel through time to meet Allen Ginsburg in this collection of novellas.

Investigators Burton and Swinburne return to Africa to seek the source of the Nile, a magic gem, and a way to fix history.

The worlds all are run by a clockwork system that connects people to the Creator. But something has gone wrong with the clockworks, and Hethor, a young clockmaker's apprentice, has been appointed by the Angel Gabriel to travel to the inner workings of the Earth and wind the mainspring. The only problems are that he doesn't know how to get there or where the key to the mainspring is.

Doc Holliday needs to replenish his bankroll quickly and uses his skill as a shootist to turn bounty hunter. The biggest reward is for the death of Billy the Kid. Doc enlists the aid of both magic (Geronimo) and science (Thomas Edison).

Violet Adams wants to attend Illyria College, a school for the most brilliant up-and-coming scientific minds, founded by the late Duke Illyria, and run by his son, who has held to his father's policy that the college remain male-only. Violet disguises herself as her twin brother, Ashton, and gains entry. There's blackmail, mysterious killer automata, the way Violet's pulse quickens whenever Ernest speaks to her, and a deadly legacy left by Ernest's father.

Sasha Trubetskaya wants nothing more than to have a decent debut ball in St. Petersburg, Russia. But she lands at university, where she becomes one of its first female students—and becomes involved in trying to stop a war between Russia, China and England.

This anthology of 23 stories (three original to this volume) will allow you to sample many different visions of steampunk. The bonus of two essays (including one by Gail Carriger), and a roundtable interview deepen and demonstrate the clockwork beauty of automaton-laden science fiction.

1878 London. . . When Tessa Gray’s guardian aunt dies she travels to London in order to join her older brother. She never makes it. Kidnapped by the Dark Sisters, Tessa finds herself unwillingly trained in strange new powers before she’s rescued by two mysterious young men who sweep her into an effort to discover the identity of a shadowy figure whose plot threatens London.

Vampires, warlocks, clockwork monstrosities and demons appear in this first book in Clare's Infernal Device series, a prequel to her bestselling Mortal Instruments books.

Born in a hot-air balloon over Paris during the 1878 World Fair, Conor Broekhart seems destined to fly. Growing up on the Saltee Islands off the Irish Coast, Conor lives an almost idyllic life. He spends time with his best friend (a princess), the king who treats him like a son, and his tutor who shares Conor’s obsession with making a flying machine. But everything changes when Conor witnesses the murder of his king. Labeled a traitor Conor is thrown into prison, forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions.

Naturally Conor devotes himself to escaping the prison in order to save his life. . .

Finley, who has a beastly alter ego inside of her, joins Duke Griffin's army of misfits to help stop the Machinist, the criminal behind a series of automaton crimes, from carrying out a plan to kill Queen Victoria during the Jubilee.

A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors (Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Garth Nix, Holly Black, and more), set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.

Marrying the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with scientific advances and imaginative technologies, Steampunk has a distinctive look. Celebrating the elegant and the strange, 30 artists represented in Steampunk : the art of Victorian futurism have created visually arresting works including sculptures, graphics, bizarre oils and contraptions—from skull cameras to rocket-fueled diving bells.

A fan of the Steampunk look? This how-to guide to jewelry-making focuses on techniques that even a beginner can use to create pieces in the Steampunk style. The techniques include simple stringing, gluing, stitching, wirework, hammering, stamping, and off-loom beadwork. Each project includes a complete list of needed materials and tools along with step-by-step instructions accompanied by clear illustrations.

A cast of steampunk characters for you to craft.

Admittedly, the series is primarily a light-hearted romantic crime drama. But the episode "Punked" contains a dose of steampunk for fans.

Castle and Beckett look into the murder of a young mathematician gunned down with a 200-year-old bullet. Castle immediately espouses the idea of a time-travelling killer. With the discovery of a tricked-out DeLorean and a suspect in Victorian clothing, his theories get ever-more fanciful.

Starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, this re-envisioning of Doyle's detective isn't steampunk strictly speaking. But the Victorian world is very much on display in Guy Ritchie’s vision of Holmes and Ritchie includes more gadgetry and invention that was usually present in Doyle’s stories.

Lord Blackwood, serial killer and occult “sorcerer” is sentenced to hang after Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rescue Blackwood’s last victim. But after Blackwood’s sentence is carried out, others begin to die and it seems Blackwood has returned from the grave. . .

The Rocketeer isn’t Steampunk, but if you’re a Steampunk fan, it might appeal. Instead of the Victorian-era manners and dress, the story is set in romantic 1930’s Hollywood with imaginative technology and gadgetry.

In 1930’s Hollywood a young pilot, Cliff Secord, stumbles onto a top secret rocket-pack and into a plot involving gangsters and Nazi spies.