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About Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAfter their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero in but a single bound.Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces. An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered...Categorized as:
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![The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner]()
The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvery heart is meant to break.THE NAMELESS. As a warden, Soren’s duty is to guard against the dead, but he was never trained to guard against his heart. Drawn into a web of Solarian politics, Soren finds himself at the center of a storm of his own making, unwilling to break free if it means losing the man he loves... -
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杀破狼 [Sha Po Lang] by Priest
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the age of the Great Liang Dynasty, the lives of the people were made convenient with steam-powered machines that run on a fuel named Violetstream Gold...Categorized as:
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![A Perfect Storm by Jodi Taylor]()
A Perfect Storm by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe brand new short story in the bestselling series, The Chronicles of St Mary’s...Categorized as:
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![Works Of Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, and selected short stories by Jules Verne]()
Works Of Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, and selected short stories by Jules Verne
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWorks Of Jules Verne. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork...Categorized as:
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![This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne]()
This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier. She’s also desperate to leave her haunted past deep in the bioluminescent ocean, buried alongside her best friend, Quian. So, when Subarch Kessandra, Valkesh’s favorite royal–and Nix’s loathed ex–requests Nix’s help investigating a massacre in the abyssal city of Fall, Nix refuses. Vehemently.She should have known Kessandra would fight back... -
![Killing the Machine by Jamie Sedgwick]()
Killing the Machine by Jamie Sedgwick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Iron Horse is a massive steam-powered locomotive manned by a crew of warriors, miscreants, and genetic anomalies. Socrates, the train’s commander, is an autonomous steam-powered gorilla with memories and knowledge reaching back more than a thousand years. Their mission is to locate a new source of starfall, the rare element that powers the ancient city of Sanctuary...Categorized as:
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![The Jackal’s House by Anna Butler]()
The Jackal’s House by Anna Butler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSequel to The Gilded ScarabSomething is stalking the Aegyptian night and endangering the archaeologists excavating the mysterious temple ruins in Abydos. But is it a vengeful ancient spirit or a very modern conspiracy…...Categorized as:
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The Calderan Problem by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Calderan Problem is the fourth high-flying, swashbuckling adventure in the Free-Wrench series from Joseph R. Lallo, author of the Book of Deacon and Big Sigma series. Several months have passed since Nita’s last adventure in the fug, and though she has spent them back in her native Caldera, she has never been busier... -
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Chasing the Green Fairy by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sabotaged airship.A recovering opium addict.A messenger with life-shattering news.With the 1824 British airship qualifying race only weeks away, Lily Stargazer is at the top of her game. She’s racing like a pro, truly in love, and living clean. But on one ill-omened day, everything changes...Categorized as:
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![The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend]()
The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEx-lovers can really mess up your life. Kate Vincent's ex, Anna, certainly does. Not only does Anna interfere in Kate's love life, but she totally screws up the world by traveling back in time to 11th century Spain and changing one crucial event. As any sane person knows, you cannot alter an event in history without altering everything that follows—but Anna has an agenda, and a score to settle... -
![Innocence & Carnality by J. Alan Veerkamp]()
Innocence & Carnality by J. Alan Veerkamp
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings(Please note: This is a re-release with no additional content added.) Innocence is his only currency. The gilded cage of propriety where Nathan grew up as a member of the Deilian aristocracy became a true prison when, at fifteen, his homosexuality came to light and created a terrible scandal...Categorized as:
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![Fields of Gold by Shelley Adina]()
Fields of Gold by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook 12 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series!If a wedding won’t stop a war, what will?Gloria Meriwether-Astor’s belief in doing the right thing has carried her across the world and through dangers that would have felled a lesser woman. She believed that if she married the dashing Captain Fremont, she could approach the Viceroy of the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias with impunity...Categorized as:
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![Shadow of the War Machine by Kristin Bailey]()
Shadow of the War Machine by Kristin Bailey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeg has come a long way from her days as a lowly housemaid, driven to learn the truth behind her parents’ murder. She’s since discovered that they were part of the Secret Order of Modern Amusementists — an underground society of inventors...Categorized as:
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![Renegade by Cheyne Curry]()
Renegade by Cheyne Curry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat would you do if one minute you were in the 21st century and the next you were in the 19th? One day you're driving a Mustang and the next day you're riding one? Dirty cop Trace Sheridan faces this dilemma as she moves from a present day mob war to a range war over a hundred years in the past, not remembering how she got there... -
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Horatio by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn October 15, 1979, two men take to the road, leaving their town behind, waiting for the peanut farmer president to come onto the radio to make an important announcement about the future of all mankind. In the hours leading up to the broadcast, Jamie and Harry will look back on their relationship, and what it means to live in defiance like there's no tomorrow... -
![Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane]()
Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSolving mysteries is her business. Finding love is her dream. Will combining the two get her killed?Victorian Era England. Stetson revels in being unconventional. So when society shies away from her independent nature, the bold woman creates an imaginary boss and opens her own detective agency... -
![Fields of Air by Shelley Adina]()
Fields of Air by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 10 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series! Her father started a war. She intends to stop it. Her father may have sacrificed his own life to save hers, but heiress Gloria Meriwether-Astor is finding it difficult to forgive him...Categorized as:
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![Vinyl by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade]()
Vinyl by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll citizens within the soaring black walls of Revinia have metal Singers grafted into their skulls at birth. The parasitic machines issue a form of auditory hypnosis called The Music, which keeps their minds malleable and emotions flat. All artistic expression—especially real music—is strictly prohibited... -
![Encounters of Sherlock Holmes by George Mann, Mark Hodder]()
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes by George Mann, Mark Hodder
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, including James Lovegrove, Justin Richards, Paul Magrs, Guy Adams and Mark Hodder. Edited by respected anthologist George Mann, and including a story by Mann himself...Categorized as:
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Jules Verne (Knickerbocker Classics) by Jules Verne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis superb collection of classic science fiction features the best of Jules Verne’s epic adventure stories, including Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)...Categorized as:
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![Against the Tide of Years by S.M. Stirling]()
Against the Tide of Years by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to recreate the better ideas of the modern age. But the evils of its time resurface in the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology... -
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Doctor Who: At Childhood’s End by Sophie Aldred, Steve Cole
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPast, present and future collide as the Thirteenth Doctor meets classic Doctor Who companion Ace – in the first epic novel from the woman who played her, Sophie Aldred.Once, a girl called Ace travelled the universe with the Doctor – until, in the wake of a terrible tragedy they parted company...Categorized as:
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![Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers by Kage Baker]()
Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers by Kage Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn these tales, sci-fi fans follow the secret activities of the Company's field agents--once human, now centuries-old time-traveling cyborgs--as they attempt to retrieve history's lost treasures...Categorized as:
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![The Silver Skull by Anne Renwick]()
The Silver Skull by Anne Renwick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn illegal border crossing.A fake marriage.A mad German count determined to create an army of unbreakable soldiers.Lady Olivia is not all she seems.Trained for marriage to an assigned political target, her skills lie in programming household steambots to serve tea, dress her hair...and sound the alarm while she picks locks and listens at doors...Categorized as:
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![Clockwork Tangerine by Rhys Ford]()
Clockwork Tangerine by Rhys Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe British Empire reigns supreme, and its young Queen Victoria has expanded her realm to St. Francisco, a bustling city of English lords and Chinese ghettos. St. Francisco is a jewel in the Empire’s crown and as deeply embroiled in the conflict between the Arcane and Science as its sister city, London—a very dark and dangerous battle...Categorized as:
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![Robot Proletariat: Season One by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant]()
Robot Proletariat: Season One by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRobot ProletariatTHIS Is How It StartsIn the future, robots like Mars and Cromwell serve their human masters. Having long since replaced humans in the back hallways and servants' quarters of the ultra-wealthy, new models are acquired, render their service, then are quietly deactivated when obsolete. But then we gave them the ability to learn... -
![H.G. Wells: Six Novels by H.G. Wells, Michael A. Cramer]()
H.G. Wells: Six Novels by H.G. Wells, Michael A. Cramer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed - and fascinated - us with a frightening doctor's island. He wrote of an invisible man, of men on the moon, and of a war of the worlds. He has influenced countless other writers, artists, and even scientists. H. G...Categorized as:
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![Operation: Endgame by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris]()
Operation: Endgame by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin Agents Books and Braun on their final adventure with the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences!There is no time to rest for Eliza D Braun and Wellington Thornhill Books. The man who has haunted and hounded them since the fall of the Maestro, Doctor Henry Jekyll, is now on a killing spree, using bizarre, theatrical murders as a way to taunt their inability to capture the... -
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In the Company of Thieves by Kage Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEspionage, time travel, and affairs gone terribly wrong define this final collection of Kage Baker’s stories in the Company series. The employees of Dr. Zeus Incorporated have discovered a nearly foolproof recipe for success: combining time travel and immortals...Categorized as:
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![Rise of the Arcane Fire by Kristin Bailey]()
Rise of the Arcane Fire by Kristin Bailey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter her parents died in a fire and her grandfather disappeared, Meg Whitlock thought her life had come to a standstill. But when she learned that the pocket watch her grandfather left her was really an intricate key, Meg, with the help of a stable hand named Will, uncovered the Amusementists: members of an elite secret society dedicated to discovery and shrouded in mystery...Categorized as:
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![Fields of Iron by Shelley Adina]()
Fields of Iron by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“What do you propose, sir?” He held her astonished gaze as he went down upon one knee. “Why … I propose...Categorized as:
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![Flotsam by R.J. Theodore]()
Flotsam by R.J. Theodore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fantastical steampunk first contact novel that ties together high magic, high technology, and bold characters to create a story you won’t soon forget. Captain Talis just wants to keep her airship crew from starving, and maybe scrape up enough cash for some badly needed repairs... -
![Deus Ex Mechanic by Ryann Fletcher]()
Deus Ex Mechanic by Ryann Fletcher
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlice is the best mechanic the corrupt Coalition regime has ever seen. When she’s kidnapped by an infamous vigilante space pirate named Violet, she has to make the hardest decision she’s ever made: escape back to the comfort of the Coalition, or risk everything to fight injustice?When Violet decided to ransack Coalition vessels, she never though she’d have to fight her feelings for Alice, too... -
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![Ashes of Candesce by Karl Schroeder]()
Ashes of Candesce by Karl Schroeder
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA world of endless sky, with no land, no gravity: this is Virga. Beginning in the seminal science fiction novel Sun of Suns, the saga of this striking world has introduced us to the people of stubborn pride and resilience who have made Virga their home; but also, always lurking beyond the walls of the world, to the mysterious threat known only as Artificial Nature... -
![Obsidian Eyes by A.W. Exley]()
Obsidian Eyes by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe worlds of noble and guild are about to collide, with seventeen-year-old Allie Donovan as the catalyst... Allie lives in a shadow world until she is thrust into the light of the aristocratic St Matthew's Academy. More at ease with a blade than a needle, she is stalked along the ancient corridors by a Scottish lord intent on determining why she is among them...Categorized as:
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Romulus Buckle and the Luminiferous Aether by Richard Ellis Preston Jr.
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Preston's Steampunk series is not just entertaining and fun but full of great characters who deepen and change over the course of the books. Expect amazing Steampunk scenes, yes, but also people you care about and a lovely mix of the comic and serious. Just pure storytelling at its best... -
![When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin]()
When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsProfessor Simon Cross and his assistant Elizabeth West have returned from their accidental journey into the past and are adjusting to their new life together as a couple. But an unwanted visit from the Council for Temporal Studies could change everything.A murder in the past is changing the future, and if the killing isn't stopped, Simon Cross might never be born...Categorized as:
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![The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk]()
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsZachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing...Leadenhall Street, London, 1754.Raised amongst the cogs and springs of his father's workshop, Zachary Cloudesley has grown up surrounded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. He is a happy child, beloved by his father Abel and the workmen who help bring his father's creations to life...Categorized as:
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![The Martian Emperor by Andrew Mayne]()
The Martian Emperor by Andrew Mayne
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDescription from the author's website:Who is the Martian Emperor?When a giant airship descends on New York City in 1892 and threatens destruction if the world doesn’t submit to the Martian flag, it’s up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer to find out what forces are at work... -
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Steam Legion by Evan Currie
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Library would not burn. Dyna of Sparta would not allow it, on her life and her ancestors she so swore.An Epic adventure set during the Early Roman Empire's era of expansion and unrest. Steam Legion develops from a real historical crossroads and explodes out in a new direction, derailing our history centuries before the first railroads were invented...Categorized as:
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![Back To The Future III by Craig Shaw Gardner]()
Back To The Future III by Craig Shaw Gardner
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGREAT SCOTT!Time is really running out for Marty McFly and Doctor Emmett Brown!Mart McFly is stuck in the year 1955 -- without a time machine!Even worse, Doc Brown is stranded in the year 1885 on the dusty streets of his hometown's distant past, where he's in danger of being gunned down by desperados before he's even born!Somehow, Marty must get back to the Wild West so both he and Doc can get...Categorized as:
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![There Will Be Phlogiston by Alexis Hall]()
There Will Be Phlogiston by Alexis Hall
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn instructive story in which vice receives its just reward. Inspired by true and scandalous tales of the Gaslight aristocracy, we present the most moral and improving tale of Lady Rosamond Wolfram. Weep, reader, for the plight of our heroine as she descends into piteous ruin in the clutches of the notorious Phlogiston Baron, Anstruther Jones... -
![Clockwork Pirate by Lyn Gala]()
Clockwork Pirate by Lyn Gala
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlex hid his unnatural attraction to men for many years. That changes when the pirate Beche takes Alex after capturing his ship. At first Alex believes his fate is death and the only question a matter of how he might die. However, the longer he is on the ship, the more he realizes that Beche hates the world because it is unfair in ways Alex never understood... -
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![The Clockwork Cathedral by Heather Blackwood]()
The Clockwork Cathedral by Heather Blackwood
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMedical student Felicia Sanchez is only trying to help an injured man when she slips through a time rip and into a 19th century New Orleans, one very different than the one she knows from history books.The only person who can get her home is Professor Seamus Connor, a former convict seeking a quiet life of obscurity... -
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Alt.History 101 by Samuel Peralta, Ken Liu
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe future is history... From Samuel Peralta, creator of the #1 bestselling Future Chronicles anthology series, comes a new speculative anthology series that turns the world you know upside down.In Alt... -
![The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois]()
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual collections. comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection... -
![Eros Element by Cecilia Dominic]()
Eros Element by Cecilia Dominic
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 01-May-17.An ancient energy.A daring expedition.Two misfit scientists in a race against time…Iris McTavish always wanted to follow in her father's footsteps. But when his sudden death leaves her household on the brink of ruin, she may have to choose an unwanted marriage over her passion of archaeology... -
![For Steam And Country by Jon Del Arroz]()
For Steam And Country by Jon Del Arroz
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo save her father... ...she must take to the sky. But will it be enough? Zaira's overwhelmed. Living as an orphan on a farm is hard enough, but unnatural earthquakes are ravaging her home. Her life turns upside down when an attorney shows up at her door with harrowing news. Her missing father's been pronounced dead, and Zaira is the heir to his airship...Categorized as:
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Rouille by Floriane Soulas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParis, 1897. Les plus grandes puissances européennes se sont lancées à l'assaut de la Lune et de nouveaux matériaux découverts sur le satellite envahissent peu à peu la Terre. Ces grandes avancées scientifiques révolutionnent l'industrie et la médecine, mais pas pour tout le monde...Categorized as:
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