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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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Making Money: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPlay based on Terry Pratchett's book, Making Money.Lord Vetinari wants to overhaul the banks of Ankh-Morpork so he appoints former con-man Albert Spangler, aka Moist von Lipwig, to the position of Mater of the Royal Mint, attached to a senior post at the Bank of Ankh-Morpork... -
Peril: Elven Alliance Collected Stories Volume One by Tara Grayce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dangerous mission to a foreign kingdom isn't the ideal honeymoon.Jalissa, princess of the elves, thought she knew what she was getting into when she married Edmund, the spy prince of Escarland. But a week after their wedding, they must embark on a dangerous mission to an enemy nation, putting their wits, their skills, and their new marriage to the test in ways they never imagined...Categorized as:
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Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jonathan Strahan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the second volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan...Categorized as:
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Lord of the High Reaches by James Haddock
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHis human father named him Cam, as he and his clan were chameleon cats. Kol-ha is what the clan called him, which means shame in clannish. Being a half-breed, Cam was not allowed to take the test to become a clan member. Cam decides that rather than not being worthy to be part of the clan, the clan is not worthy of him. Taking nothing, he leaves the clan to find his place in the world... -
Ichor Well by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIchor Well is the third adventure in the Free-Wrench Series of Steampunk novels.Ever since Nita Graus left her homeland and joined the crew of the Wind Breaker, the reputation of the airship and its crew has been growing...Categorized as:
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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 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... -
The Impossible Engineers by M.J. Fletcher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChloe Masters’s world changes in a heartbeat and all she did was touch a doorknob.James Nightshade has been on Chloe’s mind since the day she met him. Arrogant and frustrating, she thought she had put him behind her when she chose Michael Slade...Categorized as:
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Elevation of the Marked by March McCarron
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.When an enemy can alter your thoughts, you can trust nothing—not even your own mind. Bray and Yarrow escaped with their lives, believing that Quade Asher and his Elevated planned to start a war. Soon they will learn the truth: Quade need not fight a single battle; he has already won... -
Crudrat by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaura is doomed to starve. Her space station has no further use for her.New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger brings you a fast-paced young adult scifi adventure featuring a capable heroine, her adorable pet, and the alien they accidentally rescue...Categorized as:
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Great Illustrated Classics) by Malvina G. Vogel, Jules Verne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnderwater Adventure! Professor Aronnax sets off in search of a giant sea monster, only to find the monster is really a steel-plated submarine. Captured by the mysterious Captain Nemo, Aronnax witnesses the exploration of the Nautilus, the remarkable submarine Nemo has invented. But Aronnax comes to learn that Nemo is near insanity and must escape...Categorized as:
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Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg: Girl Genius, Book Four by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, mad science rules the world—with mixed success. In Agatha H and the Siege of Mechanicsburg, Agatha Heterodyne, the last of the Heterodyne family, has returned to her family’s hereditary town with the might of the Wulfenbach Empire hot on her heels...Categorized as:
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Nyssa Glass and the House of Mirrors by H.L. Burke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNyssa Glass is a reformed cat burglar turned electrician's apprentice, settled into a life repairing videophones and radio-sets. However, when her past comes calling, she finds herself forced into one last job. No one has entered Professor Dalhart's secluded mansion in almost a decade, at least not and returned to tell the tale... -
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The Edge Chronicles Maps by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo beautifully illustrated maps, plus a book of characters, places and extra facts to enhance reading the Edge Chronicles adventures. Now sadly out of print.The Deepwoods, the Stone Gardens, the Edgewater River, Undertown and Screetown, New Sanctaphrax, and the Free Glades...Categorized as:
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Alistair Grim's Odd Aquaticum by Gregory Funaro
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Grubb, an orphan and runaway chimney sweep, entered the wondrous world of the Odditorium, his life changed forever. Apprenticed to the mechanical marvel’s strange proprietor, Alistair Grim, Grubb unfortunately must settle into his new position on the lam, as the whole of London is convinced that Alistair Grim is a villain bent on mass destruction...Categorized as:
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Spacer by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJon Bartlett's path is clear before him: finish his last year of schooling, then off on the family's ships to learn the intricacies of interstellar trade. But a message of tragedy at home comes for him, and his expected life is flung far out of reach and he's cast into a role he never wanted. A portion of Spacer was previously published as the short story Wronged, by J.A...Categorized as:
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Firebrand by A.J. Hartley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnce a steeplejack, Anglet Sutonga is used to scaling the heights of Bar-Selehm. Nowadays she assists politician Josiah Willinghouse behind the scenes of Parliament. When government plans for a secret weapon are stolen, their investigation leads right to the doorsteps of the city’s superexclusive social club, Elitus...Categorized as:
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Do Overs: A Time Travel Thriller of Sudden Second Chances by Jon Spoelstra
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime travel: This is the trip you gotta take. And then when you take it--wham--you are faced with a savage choice of do-overs to correct past blunders. Roy Hobbs blew the cash windfall from his best-seller book. Gone was his money, and then his wife Rachel was murdered with the killer never found. Roy chose to pick up the pieces, riding into his sunset as a crime reporter in a smaller market...Categorized as:
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Free-Wrench by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe islands of Caldera are a shining jewel in a rather bleak world. A terrible calamity in the past had blanketed much of the world with a toxic "fug." Those who survived were forced to take to the mountains and the skies in wondrous airships. Life has since been a struggle, with only the most ruthless and crafty able to survive...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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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
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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Ribofunk by Paul Di Filippo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollowing the shock wave of cyberpunk writing in the late 1980s, Paul Di Filippo's first book, The Steampunk Trilogy, burst on the scene in 1995, leading SF veteran William Gibson to declare the young writer's work "spooky, haunting, hilarious." Cyberpunk concentrated on cold hardware. Di Filippo coined "ribofunk" by fusing "ribosome" (as in cellular biology) with "funk" (as in rock and roll)...Categorized as:
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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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Gorilla City by Charlie Small
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. And at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no 8-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life-and still only be eight. And yet . .Categorized as:
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Time Ship, Book One by Ian C.P. Irvine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGripping, Enthralling, Imaginative & Hard to Put Down! A rip-roaring, page-turning thriller! If you don't believe time travel is possible, based upon the infamous US Defence Department's 'Project Rainbow', this book will make change your mind.. -
With Tide and Tempest by Kate Avery Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.Free or not, life beneath the sea in the republic of Itlantis is less idyllic than Aemi might have imagined when she'd been just a surfacer slave. She's been accused of spying for the enemy thanks to her connections with the traitorous Nautilus family, not to mention her own tangled and mysterious family history...Categorized as:
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The Disappearing Dwarf by James P. Blaylock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife as a man of leisure was becoming a bit dull for Jonathan Bing, Master Cheeser, so he welcomed Professor Wurzle's invitation to visit the empty castle of Selznak, the Evil Dwarf. There they chanced upon a treasure map. Soon Jonathan, his wonderpooch Ahab, the Professor ad Miles the magician set off by boat for the location of the treasure - the unknown city called Landsend... -
Jed and the Junkyard War by Steven Bohls
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJed is a regular kid with a normal, loving family . . . that is, if it's normal for a loving family to drop their child off in the middle of nowhere and expect him home in time for Sunday dinner. Luckily, Jed excels at being a regular kid who-armed with wit and determination-can make his way out of any situation... -
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... -
Thermals (Anselm Gunnar) by Evan Currie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Interpol Inspector Anselm Gunnar is tasked with tracking down one of the world's most wanted he expected the job to be a straightforward liaison assignment with the local Police. At the Australian Solar Power facility that Tower City is built around, however, the inspector is about to learn that the man everyone thinks is hiding from the law is actually doing anything but...Categorized as:
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The Young Dread by Arwen Elys Dayton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Young Dread lives outside the stream of time: frozen for vast stretches, centuries old yet inhabiting the form of a teenage girl. When she’s awake in the world, she can hear an enemy approach from a mile away, manipulate a whipsword into a thousand forms, and attack with it faster than the human eye can see.The Young Dread observes the training of the families known as Seekers...Categorized as:
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Clockwork Lives by Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSome lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics. In Clockwork Angels , #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name... -
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Word Puppets by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new short story collection from Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal, with an introduction by Patrick Rothfuss.Table of Contents* "The Bound Man"* "Chrysalis"* "Rampion"* "At the Edge of Dying"* "Clockwork Chickadee"* "Body Language"* "Waiting for Rain"* "First Flight"* "Evil Robot Monkey"* "The Consciousness Problem"* "For Solo Cello, op...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... -
Haven by A.R. Ivanovich
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom missing socks to missing people, nothing could remain hidden from seventeen year-old Katelyn Kestrel for long, but after locating a forbidden passage out of her isolated country, Haven, she discovers for the first time that there are some things that should never be found. Outside the safety of her homeland's borders, Katelyn meets Rune, a young soldier who will die without her immediate aid...Categorized as:
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A Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Raymond James, Jules Verne
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt was a secret message by an ancient alchemist, found on a crumbling scrap of parchment. And if Saknussemm was right, then every theory about the molten core of the earth is wrong. Prof. Otto Lidenbrock has to learn the truth. So Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and the Icelandic hunter Hans climb down the cone of an arctic volcano and into..Categorized as:
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Basilics by Anne Robillard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDans l'univers, il existe une multitude de mondes parallèles et entre eux s'ouvrent parfois des portails qui nous permettent d'yaccéder…Sierra, la grande commandante des Chevaliers d'Antarès, quitte les Chimères afin de s'enquérir des progrès des Basilics au nord de Hadar...Categorized as:
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The Harvest by Chuck Wendig
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBlood will water the corn...It’s been a year since the Saranyu flotilla fell from the sky, and life in the Heartland has changed. Gone are the Obligations and the Harvest Home festivals. In their place is a spate of dead towns, the former inhabitants forced into mechanical bodies to serve the Empyrean—and crush the Heartland...Categorized as:
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Strom der Zeiten by J. Robert King
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAcross the ages, Urza the Artificer seeks revenge against those who killed his brother. From the depths of his scheming emerges a potent weapon that will ensure his ultimate triumph. "Time Streams" is linked to Urza's Legacy, an expansion of "Magic: The Gathering"... -
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... -
The Clockwork God by Jamie Sedgwick
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive Stars: "I read this book in one sitting, as I was physically unable to put it down... I highly recommend The Clockwork God, and cannot wait to see what else Jamie Sedgewick has in store for us."-Goodreads ReviewFour Stars: "An action packed, thrilling read; Very much a must for sci-fi and steampunk fans!"-Goodreads ReviewFive Stars: "Can't get enough of the stories by Jamie Sedgwick...Categorized as:
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Tower of Mud and Straw by Yaroslav Barsukov
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsTHE QUEEN RUINED HIS LIFE. HE WOULD DO ANYTHING TO RECLAIM IT... OR SO HE THOUGHT.Minister Shea Ashcroft refuses the queen's order to gas a crowd of protesters. After riots cripple the capital, he's banished to the border to oversee the construction of the biggest anti-airship tower in history... -
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Ministry Protocol: Thrilling Tales of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the Creators of the award-winning steampunk Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series ( Phoenix Rising and the Janus Affair) comes a collection of new adventures from around the world.The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences investigates the bizarre and unusual, and protects the citizens of the Empire from forces of darkness... -
Tom Swift And His Airship by Victor Appleton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSwift's ingenuity prompts him to build an airship, but when Tom tests the ship something goes wrong and both Tom and the ship crash to the ground...Categorized as:
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Fall of Sky City by S.M. Blooding
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a world governed by the opposing forces of the mystical House of Tarot and the tribal Great Families, Synn is caught in the crossfire. He witnesses the slaughter of innocent people, and the devastating murder of his father. This act awakens his Mark of power, a Mark greater than any the world has seen in a very long time... -
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... -
The Count: The First Novella Introducing His Majesty's New World by Kenneth Tam
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1881, explorers in the Rocky Mountains discovered gateways to another planet. Britain and the United States quickly partnered to colonize and exploit this rich new world. Now it's 1896, and the promise of a new beginning has drawn ex-Sergeant Edwin Barnes, his wife Evangeline, and a group of former British colonial soldiers to the new world...Categorized as:
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 29 by L. Ron Hubbard, Alex Wilson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTurn the page…open your eyes...and look into the futureThey unleash the power of dreams and unlock the secrets of the universe.They bend time, twist perception, and put a new spin on the laws of physics.They show us who we are, what we may become, and how far we can go.They are the Writers of the Future. Experience their vision. “Keep the Writers of the Future going. It’s what keeps sci-fi alive...Categorized as:
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