Most Read This Week In Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." The term denotes works set in an era or world where STEAM POWER is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Steampunk"

Les Fiancés de l'hiver (La Passe-Miroir BD, #1)

Mortedant's Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp, #1)

The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)

The Invisible College (The Invisible College, #1)

The Goldsmith's Conspiracy (Glass and Steele, #13)

Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

The Spy Master's Scheme (Glass and Steele, #12)

The Toymaker's Curse (Glass and Steele, #11)

Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1)

Murder on the Lamplight Express (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #2)

The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

The Veiled Throne (The Dandelion Dynasty, #3)

The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House

The Orb of Cairado (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1.1)

The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls

The Imagination Chamber (His Dark Materials, #3.7)

The Blood Phoenix (Fall of the Dragon, #2)

Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo (Inkbound #1)

A Conjuring of Ravens (A Practical Guide to Sorcery #1)

Elisa Hemmiltons Kofferkrimi (Staubchronik-Universum, #2)

ヴァニタスの手記 11 [Vanitas no Carte 11] (The Case Study of Vanitas, #11)

Hessians and Hellhounds (Manners and Monsters, #6)

Lora Selezh (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #0.5)

Batman: Gotham By Gaslight - The Kryptonian Age

The Book of Ile-Rien: The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer (Ile-Rien, #1-2)

Feint and Doublecross (Tournament of Shadows, #4)

Opening Gambit (Tournament of Shadows, #1)

Engines of Empire (The Age of Uprising, #1)

Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea

His Mortal Demise (The Last Bloodcarver, #2)

All In A Name (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, #9)

Engines of Chaos (The Age of Uprising, #2)

Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose (Marion Lane, #2)

Amelia Erroway: Castaway Commander: A Graphic Novel

Ambush or Adore (Delightfully Deadly, #3)

Beyond the Clouds, Tome 4 (Beyond the Clouds, #4)

Winds of Death (War of the Alliance, #4)

Bound by the Sky (Aether & Industry, #1)

All Fun and Games (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth #11)

Seams like Murder (Grace Designs Mysteries, #1)

Dark & Stormy (Miss Dark's Apparitions #3)

Bleakwatch Chronicles: Tinker Bell and the Lost City

Spindles and Thorns (The Society of Roses, #1)

Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge (Marion Lane, #3)

Champions of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, #3)

A Matter of Secrets and Spies (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, #10)

The Infernal Devices: The Complete Trilogy (The Infernal Devices: Manga, #1-3)

This Potion Is da Bomb (Case Files of Henri Davenforth, #8)

The Last Stand of Mary Good Crow (The Crystal Calamity, #1)

L'Empire des abysses (Vaisseau d'arcane #2)

A Matter of Execution (Tales of the Iron Rose #0.5)

The Clockwork City (Lady Georgia Brunel Mysteries #1)

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Quotes Tagged “Steampunk”

“ Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun! ”
― George Mann

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“ Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense—but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to ...more ”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

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