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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 Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman, Wade Wellman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1897, the world changed forever when our planet came under attack from Martian invaders. The world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, along with his friend Professor Challenger embark on one of their most dangerous adventures to date... to discover the nature and intent of their extra-terrestrial attackers...Categorized as:
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Skirmish by Tony Corden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In ‘Nascent’, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves... -
The Gangster by C.S. Poe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1881—Special Agent Gillian Hamilton, magic caster for the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has recovered from injuries obtained while in Shallow Grave, Arizona. Now back in New York City, Gillian makes an arrest on New Year’s Eve that leads to information on a gangster, known only as Tick Tock, who’s perfected utilizing elemental magic ammunition...Categorized as:
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Hawking's Hallway by Neal Shusterman, Eric Elfman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNick Slate, in order to protect his father and little brother, reluctantly must help the Accelerati complete Tesla's great device. Their power-mad leader wants nothing less than to control the world's energy--but there are still three missing objects to track down...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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The Carnelian Crow by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEver since the debacle of the Chess Queen Enigma, Mina Holmes and Evaline Stoker have laid low, trying to settle back into their quiet lives as young ladies of London. But the Holmesian deductive abilities won't remain dormant for long, and when Mina receives a strange package from a winged, midnight visitor, she is catapulted into a new, dangerous adventure: the search for The Carnelian Crow...Categorized as:
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Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chloroform during labour. Florence Nightingale makes headlines as she leads a troop of middle-class women out into the war zones as nurses...Categorized as:
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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 Assassin in the Greenwood by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the summer of 1302 the famous Robin of Locksley, popularly known as Robin Hood, has gone back to his outlaw ways in Sherwood Forest where he battles against royal authority, culminating in the barborous massacre of royal tax collectors and the mysterious murder of Sir Eustace Vechey, one of the sheriffs of Nottingham...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... -
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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Chronicle of the Eternal: Volume 1 by D. Wolfin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the year XX, the human population exhausted the world’s resources, leading to cataclysmic environment changes and the imminent extinction of all life on the planet. Frantic space exploration became the world's focus, but failed to find a new world for the human race. In desperation, humanity went digital. Minds were scanned, encoded, and transferred to the virtual world of Grandosa... -
Food for the Fishes by David Wishart
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Licinius Murena, wealthy fish-farm owner, is found dead, not many tears are shed. Certainly not by Trebbio, who had just been booted out of his cottage by the landowner, nor by his widow, daugher, or farm manager. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Marcus Corvinus is the man to find out, with the help, of course, of his clever wife, Perilla...Categorized as:
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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
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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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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Sherlock Holmes in Orbit by Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAuthorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, this brand-new collection of 26 Sherlock Holmes stories takes place in Holmes' own era, in our present time, and in the future. All the tales contain some science fiction or fantasy element, and all remain true to the spirit and personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous and enduring creation...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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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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Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas, Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the city they call Punktown, on a planet where a hundred sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows.. -
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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... -
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.. -
Steampunk is Dead by Harmon Cooper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe exciting sequel to The Feedback Loop.Adjusting to the real world isn't exactly easy for Quantum Hughes. Instead of focusing on his recovery, he takes an assignment alongside Frances Euphoria to a virtual entertainment dreamworld called Steam, in search of a Proxima Developer. True to his nature, Quantum acts out of turn, causing the entire world to turn against him... -
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... -
A Quantum Murder by Peter F. Hamilton
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsProfessor Edward Kitchener, a double Nobel laureate researching quantum cosmology for the powerful Event Horizon conglomerate has been savagely murdered...Categorized as:
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A Trace of Deceit by Karen Odden
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of A Dangerous Duet comes the next book in her Victorian mystery series, this time following a daring female painter and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother’s suspicious death.A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London’s art world to learn the truth behind her brother’s murder... Edwin is dead...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... -
A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the latest USA Today bestselling, Victorian Era-set Countess of Harleigh Mystery from multi-award winning author Dianne Freeman, Frances Hazelton and her husband, George, uncover the secrets of backstage Paris to find out who’s acting the role of a killer to chilling perfection…Frances and George are enjoying some well-deserved leisure time in Paris when an old acquaintance from London,...Categorized as:
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The Immorality Engine by George Mann
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the surface, life is going well for Victorian special agent Sir Maurice Newbury, who has brilliantly solved several nigh-impossible cases for Queen Victoria with his indomitable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, by his side. But these facts haven’t stopped Newbury from succumbing increasingly frequently to his dire flirtation with the lure of opium...Categorized as:
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The Imperial Infantryman's Handbook by Matt Ralphs, Graham McNeill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou there, soldier! Don’t know a las-cutter from a lascannon? Not sure which prayer to the God-Emperor will protect you from enemy artillery fire? Need to know how to survive an explosive decompression on your drop ship, or set up a crossfire ambush in a death world jungle? Better consult the handbook. The Munitorum adepts give us these things for a reason, you know.. -
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The Custodian of Marvels by Rod Duncan
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYou’d have to be mad to steal from the feared International Patent Office. But that’s what Elizabeth Barnabus is about to try. A one-time enemy from the circus has persuaded her to attempt a heist that will be the ultimate conjuring trick.Hidden in the vaults of the Patent Court in London lie secrets that could shake the very pillars of the Gas-Lit Empire... -
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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Edie Investigates by Nick Harkaway
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of "The Gone-Away World" and the forthcoming "Angelmaker"--an exhilarating espionage murder-mystery eShort. There has been a strange death in the quiet village of Shrewton: old Donny Caspian has lost his head. In the Copper Kettle tea rooms, Tom Rice, a junior nobody from the Treasury, puzzles over the details of the case... -
The Ghost Rebellion by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom authors Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris, the award winning steampunk series continues. The chase is on! After rescuing Queen Victoria from the clutches of the Maestro, Agents Eliza D Braun and Wellington Books are in hot pursuit of Dr Henry Jekyll. While he continues his experiments on the aristocracy of Europe, he leaves a trail of chaos and despair in his wake... -
Hunter's Prey by Moira Rogers
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first book in this series is available for FREE. Download it + two other series starters: mrogers.link/free-sale Bloodhounds #2Ophelia walked away from her life as a prostitute, hell-bent on a fresh start--and a new career. But managing the bloodhound manor in Iron Creek is like juggling knives while putting out fires. And then there's her inconvenient attraction to Hunter... -
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Murder at the Ashmolean by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole between his eyes, a pistol discarded close by. The death has officially been ruled as suicide by local police, but with an apparent lack of motive for such action, the museum’s administrator, Gladstone Marriott, suspects foul play...Categorized as:
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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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Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSet both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As a group of mathematics students look at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, they soon find more sinister realities... -
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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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... -
Ares Express by Ian McDonald
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTaking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's "Desolation Road," this novel is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second... -
Empress of the Sun by Ian McDonald
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWorld-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon...Categorized as:
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Monstrocity by Jeffrey Thomas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere are haunted places. Haunted houses. The metropolis of Punktown, on the planet Oasis, is a haunted city. An unassuming and aimless young man has begun to perceive the city's dark tentacles in the lay of the streets. Its roots in the labyrinth of the subways. Its polluted taint in the eyes of the people he knows, and even loves... -
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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