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Cynthia Ward's exceptional alternate history turns on the idea of Alexander the Great living beyond his historical death date and the changes that would bring-including an early invention of the steam locomotive (extrapolated from an ancient Greek invention, the aeolipile). A new classic steampunk story!
2) Threats
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The Steamship Chronicles began with Secrets, but Samantha Crill and Nathaniel Bowden have many more adventures ahead of them as they cross the Atlantic on a modified steamship. Threats is the second book in the series and is approximately 54,000 words long.Is Luck a Miracle or a Curse?Luck alone has kept Sam undiscovered so far. She dreads the moment the crew learns their miracle and curse have a human face, but it's Nat's reaction she fears the most....
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When the oil and gas ran out, civilisation collapsed. Now, centuries later, mankind is once again beginning to discover the secrets of the past ... starting with clockwork.In a future Denmark, the King's clockmaker becomes enmeshed in a web of court intrigue and undertakes a fateful journey to the Far North, where he encounters many strange phenomena that challenge his rational nature.Kingdom of Clockwork is a science fiction/steampunk novel by Billy...
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The Journey continues with the mystical Shaman John GreywolfAfter the daring rescue of the Weavers Boles and Wells, The Man in the Black Hat ventures to the grand city of Chicago, to meet with his closest allies, his brother and sisters. Even as he does though, John knows he has set into motion new enemies with evil intentions, setting up new obstacles and dangers he will have to overcome to save his family from an ancient prophecy. John will have...
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The second volume in Billy O'Shea's Scandinavian science fiction series is set in a clockwork world that arises after the collapse of our fossil fuels-based civilisation.In a future Denmark, Karl Nielsen, the King's Clockmaker, is recalled to the Round Tower of Copenhagen to design the King's most ambitious project yet: a vehicle to travel into space. But as usual, he soon finds himself embroiled in the secret plans of the devious king. 'It's Only...
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His name is John and his existence is a true mystery to almost everyone in this world. In 1929, with the advent of Steam Technology, great warships fly the skies alongside slow moving dirigibles and air trains hauling freight in long lines of box cars. The Protectorate, a single national force composed of the Army, Navy, and Police guards our borders and skies. Magi walk among the populace, wielders of great energy gifted to them by their Weavers,...
7) Electrocante
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Natalio y su electrocante -un compañero androide, también llamado «tronco»- recorren la City haciendo el trabajo sucio que le corresponde a un policía Clase 5. La ciudad está colapsada por la ola de inmigrantes y disidentes que llegan desde la Ciudad Vieja y las órdenes son terminar con ellos como sea. En uno de estos operativos, Natalio pierde a su tronco cuando un disidente le vuela la cabeza con una bomba imán. Natalio, entonces, se ve...
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This magazine includes stories by Ken Liu, Cat Rambo, Yoon Ha Lee, M. Yzmore, David R. Grigg, Michael Merriam, J.B. Toner, Tim Major and Eric Del Carlo. Edited by Daniel Scott White.In Vol. 2, we take a closer look at the realms of cyberpunk and steampunk with a collection of stories that are both imaginative and convincing.• Ken Liu expertly stretches time and dimensions in "Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer" to such a skilled degree...
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Clockmaker Karl Nielsen has not been having a good day. He thought he was taking a short Yuletide trip to the city. Now he stands accused of treason. robbery and murder.The darkly humorous third volume in the Kingdom of Clockwork series features a king disguised as Santa, a prime minister who might be an alien, a pregnant Irish monk and a long-forgotten Danish monster.
10) Infernal Machine
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Student-Artificer Elijah Saloman discovers what he thinks could be a lost masterwork of the greatest Artificer ever born. He is determined to make it work, even though he has no idea what it is or what it is supposed to do. But when everything that can go wrong does, Elijah finds himself caught in an interesting predicament-trapped within the machine, and at the mercy of the whimsical plaything of a long-dead Artificer with a taste for the exotic....
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Reviews:"["Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate"] is at one level nearly wacky, but it has deeper concerns, reflected in the examination of the treatment of such disadvantaged individuals as alcoholics, Confederate veterans, the Chinese, Jews, and of course clockwork ex-soldiers. It all comes together very effectively." -- Rich Horton, Locus, July 2008 (Recommended Story)"The story is poignant, sad and funny, bitter and hopeful, and altogether...
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Jacob et Rebecca sont chasseurs de prime dans un Far West décimé par le Grand Cataclysme. La terrible maladie ne les a pas épargnés, non, mais ils ont eu la chance de ne pas être mis au ban comme les parias qu'ils pourchassent. Pourtant, à toujours confier leurs décisions au hasard, à toujours croire que la bonne fortune a décidé de les prendre sous son aile, leur dernière traque pourrait prendre un tour inattendu.
13) Clockwork Heart
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A Great War has wreaked havoc on the world, but that's nothing compared to what Brandon did to her. Betty Bel-Grant lives every day preparing for revenge. She uses her father's plans and builds machines of destruction that no one has ever dreamed of, waiting for the day when the automaton returns. But when he finally shows up again, this time minus the glowing green eyes, he pleads with her to believe that his clockwork parts had been sabotaged; his...
14) The Rat Warrens
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On the dystopian isle of Junction, those occupying the foundation slums of the Rat Warrens live a hard life shrouded in near-perpetual darkness.Fen Tunk is one such unfortunate youth. He's a scavenger and a gang runner, who might have just found his fortunes changing after he snatches a sack-full of cash from an unwary courier. But, what at first seems like his ticket out of the darkness, ends up plunging him deeper than he could have ever imagined.As...
15) Keeping Cadence
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Fiery Cadence is assigned as both gun expert and bodyguard when the senior crew of the Airship Vulpes is hired to transport precious cargo. Jonathan Archer is determined to reach the Exposition Universelle where his inventions might finally be recognized and he'd have a future beyond the small village in which he'd been born.Meeting Cadence expands Jonathan's world view in ways he never thought possible and he has every intention to get to know Cadence...
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Drish Larken used to be a noble, used to live a life of ease in the royal court of the Unified Kingdoms of Ascella, but all that changed the day the Hierarchs and their Iron Empire descended over the capital of Throne, laying siege with airborne juggernauts and land-based assault machines. With the Great Skies War lost and the Iron occupation solidified, dramatic changes have come to the former Ascellan capital, and now Drish's life is defined by...
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Galactic Apocalypse- When The Shadow threatens the galaxy, President Sunbeam deals with it in the usual way- by feeding his sex addiction while cavorting with a lowly crew of drug smugglers. Together they must survive black market lords, demented scientists, and, finally, face the ultimate enemy. Dystopia- An android named Shane loses his job and, finding himself without direction or meaning, goes on a search for the most unlikely of things- love....
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Time is twisted, worlds are changed, and fates are intertwined in this thrilling final chapter of the Burton & Swinburne Adventures from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author Mark Hodder.
In 1890 the renowned adventurer and explorer Sir Richard Burton could sense his impending death…
Until he was suddenly alive, young and strong in the year 1864-a past that he remembers well, but which is definitely different from what he previously lived through....
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Some Monsters are Human.
The only heir to the Brandywine fortune, Helena grew up with nothing to want for: Except parents.
For the past ten years, everyone contended, they were dead. Helena had no reason to doubt the General, her stepfather.
On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, seemingly unrelated events pull the young woman from the safety of her gilded cage and haul her into the filthy streets of a magical 1899 San Francisco.
Everything she believes...
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