Gears & Goggles: A Steampunk Collection

by Susan Kaye Quinn

Travel diagonally in time to worlds of steampunk adventure, where the airships fly straight and true and the best cars are powered by steam. Where mad science has run amok and strange creatures haunt the foggy streets. Intrigue, mystery, gadgets, and corsets—find everything you love in a great steampunk story in this bundle of seven novels and novellas.

This thrilling read with over 200 5-star reviews for the individual books includes:
* THIRD DAUGHTER (The Royals of Dharia – Book 1) – Susan Kaye Quinn
* MISSION : IMPROPER (London Steampunk : The Blueblood Conspiracy – Book 1) – Bec McMaster
* TRACKS – K. M. Tolan
* ALONG CAME A WOLF (The Yellow Hoods – Book 1) – Adam Dreece
* BREADCRUMB TRAIL (The Yellow Hoods – Book 2) – Adam Dreece
* MADDIE HATTER & THE DEADLY DIAMOND – Jayne Barnard
* MAGICAL MECHANICATIONS – Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris

Genres: Steampunk, Anthologies, Fantasy

Kindle Edition

First published December 7, 2016

About the author

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Susan Kaye Quinn has designed aircraft engines and researched global warming, but now she uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from hopeful climate fiction to gritty cyberpunk. Sue believes being gentle and healing is radical and disruptive. Her short fiction can be found in Grist, Solarpunk Magazine, Reckoning, and all her novels and short stories can be found on her website. She is the host of the Bright Green Futures podcast.

SOLARPUNK
collections
Bright Green Futures: 2024 (edited by SKQ)
Halfway to Better

novels
Nothing is Promised series
When You Had Power
You Knew The Price
Of Kindness and Kilowatts
Yet You Cry When It Hurts

short stories
A Moon Goddess to Watch Over Me (Luna Station Quarterly) (hopepunk)
It's in the Blood (Reckoning 8)
Once and Future Kilowatts (Solarpunk Magazine)
Rewilding Indiana (Little Blue Marble)
Seven Sisters (Grist)
The Joy Fund (DreamForge Magazine)

SCI-FI
Singularity Novel Series
The Legacy Human
The Duality Bridge
The Illusory Prophet
The Last Mystic

Stories of Singularity
Restore
Containment
Augment
Awakening
Harvest
Defiance
Resistance

YA SF
Mindjack Series
Open Minds
Closed Hearts
Free Souls
Locked Tight
Cracked Open
Broken Wide
Mindjack Short Story Collection

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STEAMPUNK ROMANCE
Royals of Dharia
Third Daughter
Second Daughter
First Daughter

CYBERPUNK
Debt Collector
LIRIUM (Season One)
WRAITH (Season Two)

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ANTHOLOGIES
Synchronic
Telepath Chronicles
AI Chronicles
Dark Beyond The Stars
Future Chronicles
Cyborg Chronicles
CLONES: The Anthology

MIDDLE GRADE FANTASY
Faery Swap

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CONTACT SUSAN
Susan's Website | Sue on Bluesky | Sue on Mastodon
Susan's Email: sue@twistedspacepub.com

Reviews

[Margo James · Rating 2 out of 5]

No more anthologies for me.

It appears that any book that even closely fits the category is accepted for the anthology, unread and unedited. Some are so poorly written even I couldn't force myself to finish them. Too bad, there are some pearls among the swine.

[D. Mark Detrixhe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice mix

More fairy tales than steampunk but still a mix. I enjoyed almost all the stories. A couple got religious and I skipped those but some were really unique and entertaining.

[Steven Wade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collection of steam punk genius

This collection of stories is wildly diverse and very entertaining. I’ve read Bec McMaster before, which prompted picking up this series. Each story is very well edited and very unique. The yellow hoods are a great ya addition to this mature genre.

[Jolie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, a very enjoyable romp! One I wish I hadn't bothered to read, along with its sequel; one ok, several really good and wanted more of those. :-)

[Heather Conrad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good, some OK, one gem

Mission Improper ****
Pretty good story, but... if it's going to be smut, make it smut, and don't pull any punches. Otherwise, tastefully cut away when things get steamy. Cool monsters, though.

Tracks **********
This is the story I've waited for my whole life. I could nitpick, particularly the very flat villian, but won't. More of this, please!!! A wonderful merger of hobos and railroading with fantasy, done with no major errors in the railroad parts. Good job!

Along Came A Wolf/Breadcrumb Trail***
This one confused me a bit. I couldn't quite figure out what the conflict was supposed to be. It never truly resolved at the end, either. I think it was supposed to be a cliffhanger, but it missed the mark a bit.

Maddie Hatter **
I wasn't impressed at the beginning, and had to make myself keep reading. The story got somewhat better, but overall seemed pretty derivative. It wasn't really satirical, either. As a fan of Agatha Christie, I particularly didn't care for the buffoon pretending to be Hercule Poirot.

Magical Machinations **
This one wasn't bad, but I had just read a much better collection of Steampunked fairy tales. I did like Alladin, though.

(Tracks has also been reviewed separately in its own right.)

-- Matt

[Kerri Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of different types.

The Third Daughter.
She's a princess who marries for her country. Liked it enough to by the other two. Book 1 of Royals of Dharia.
Tracks.
Vincent goes looking for his father and sister and finds that the stories his dad told were true.

[Joyousmoi]

I felt bad..... I felt bad because the book started with Bec McMaster's amazing story and then plunged from there! I couldn't understand it! I really tried, but by the third story I was like "Noooooooo more!"