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

New Releases Tagged "Steampunk"

A Wild Radiance
Bound by the Sky (Aether & Industry, #1)
The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, #3)
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)
Warriorborn (The Cinder Spires #1.5)
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
Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School, #1)
Blameless (Parasol Protectorate, #3)
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
Heartless (Parasol Protectorate, #4)
Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)
The Iron Duke (Iron Seas, #1)
Behemoth (Leviathan, #2)
Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School, #2)
The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1)
Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)
Goliath (Leviathan, #3)
Hopebreaker by Dean F. WilsonMoonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer PapeBy Any Other Name by Michel R. VaillancourtFor Steam And Country by Jon Del ArrozFables of the Reconstruction by Jez Jones
Best Unknown Steampunk
243 books — 334 voters
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanSoulless by Gail CarrigerBehemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Best YA Steampunk Books
217 books — 321 voters

A Time to Die by Nadine BrandesA Time to Rise by Nadine BrandesA Time to Speak by Nadine BrandesBy Darkness Hid by Jill WilliamsonUnblemished by Sara Ella
Realm Makers Books
730 books — 158 voters
Cold Days by Jim  ButcherThe Blinding Knife by Brent WeeksThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussTricked by Kevin HearneThe Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Adult Fantasy & Sci-Fi 2012
428 books — 724 voters


Heather Massey
Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he was all wrong for them. But he refused to become something he wasn't just for society's approval. ...more
Heather Massey, The Watchmaker's Lady

A.F. Stewart
She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies.
A.F. Stewart, Mechanized Masterpieces: a Steampunk Anthology

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