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"

Mortedant's Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp, #1)
The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
The Rose Field (Book of Dust, #3)
Mortedant's Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp, #1)
City of Mirth and Malice (Vows of Vengeance, #2)
The Blackfire Blade (The Last Legacy, #2)
Warriorborn (The Cinder Spires #1.5)
The Goldsmith's Conspiracy (Glass and Steele, #13)
Steel Gods (The Great Silence, #2)
The Orb of Cairado (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1.1)
The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)
The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House
The Most Boring Book Ever
The Toymaker's Curse (Glass and Steele, #11)
All Fun and Games (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth #11)
The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)
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)
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Regency and Victorian Mysteries
718 books — 499 voters
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Best Steampunk and Gaslight Works
314 books — 422 voters
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Best Adventure Books from Debut Authors
106 books — 225 voters

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Romance Debuts 2013
496 books — 3,877 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Imaginative Books
741 books — 264 voters


Life's lessons are the threads that weave the fabric of time. With each stitch, we create a tapestry of wisdom that guides us on the journey of growing up. ...more
Beverley Douglas, The Gears of Time Heist: A Steampunk Mystery

Philip Pullman
Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on. And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above a ...more
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