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"

The Blackfire Blade (The Last Legacy, #2)

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

The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)

City of Mirth and Malice (Vows of Vengeance, #2)

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

The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House

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

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

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

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

Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls

The Veiled Throne (The Dandelion Dynasty, #3)

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

Hessians and Hellhounds (Manners and Monsters, #6)

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

Grimoires and Where to Find Them (Case Files of Henri Davenforth #6)

Elisa Hemmiltons Kofferkrimi (Staubchronik-Universum, #2)

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

His Mortal Demise (The Last Bloodcarver, #2)

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

Mistletoe and Mireworth: A Manners and Monsters Christmas Novella

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

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

Seduced by Darkness (Dark Court Rising, #1.5)

Opening Gambit (Tournament of Shadows, #1)

Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo (Inkbound #1)

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

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

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

Lora Selezh (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #0.5)

The Shadow of Water (The London Charismatics, #2)

Death Over the Garden Wall (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth #7)

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

Engines of War (The Age of Uprising, #3)

Tall & Dark (Miss Dark's Apparitions #1)

Bleakwatch Chronicles: Tinker Bell and the Lost City

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

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

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

Ambush or Adore (Delightfully Deadly, #3)

The Broken God (The Black Iron Legacy, #3)

The Imagination Chamber (His Dark Materials, #3.7)

Amelia Erroway: Castaway Commander: A Graphic Novel

Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea

Min Zemerin's Plan (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1.5)

Seams like Murder (Grace Designs Mysteries, #1)

Three Axes to Fall (The Grave of Empires, #3)

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

The Fall is All There Is (Four of Mercies, #1)

La Respiration du ciel (La Semeuse de vents #1)

Echoes of the Imperium (Tales of the Iron Rose, #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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“ What makes us the strongest tribe on the continent is the fact that a group that opposes these values--a group that would have mankind remain in the new dark ages--is permitted to grow, permitted to exist...and, after it becomes a violent terrorist organization, is allowed to live on it own lands, taken out of the lands of those it has attacked and continues to attack!" He had to stop speaking then--the applause was louder than even his amplified voice. "They expect that fear will drive us to be ...more ”
― Lia Habel, Dearly, Departed

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