Christopher Hoare: 13 books

Tribute: January !813 —January 2013. This novella is published here in tribute to Jane Austen and marking the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice; January 28 2013. Since it features living, dead, and imaginary participants it had to trespass outside the purely Regency style...

Shadows surround us, but the light is always there, keeping them at bay. In these five speculative fiction novels, explore the darkness that thrives not only in the world around us, but also in our very souls. But that darkness will always be challenged. Using their brains, guts, and claws,...

Gisel Matah is the youngest person aboard the Iskander, slipped in as personal trainer through the influence of her father, the director of their development department. This sixteen-year old gymnast is bold and strong-willed and usually at odds with everyone. Her future seems to be blighted until...

The novel opens at night aboard the Swift, a small steam packet of the Partnership that runs a commercial service between Skrona and Lubitz on opposite sides of the Baltic, (called the Inland Sea on Gaia). Gisel meets one of Colonel M'Tov's agents and wants to know what he has been assigned to do....

Deadly Enterprise is the middle novel of the five novel series that feature the strong female storm-crow Gisel Matah, a security agent for the castaway Iskanders on the alternate Earth called Gaia. In this story she is assigned to make contact with the Felgers, a banking and industrialist family conglomerate....

Skrona is the transshipment port for the greater part of Iskander's manufactures; every speculator, crook and get-rich-quick businessman in the world has flocked to it. Every nation has sent their best spies to learn what they can of Iskander's modern technology. The city is the home of most of the...

I planned this novel as the Iskander version of the 'Man in the Iron Mask' trope. To fit it into the Iskander story-line it had to be turned around...instead of the mystery man who is incarcerated for an unknown purpose, we have a missing person who's dungeon is unknown and the key to solving the...

Imagine the worst possible time, the interregnum while rebelling magic forces slowly kill the reigning Drogar. Prince Egon has to take up the succession as the new sorcerer-king of Rast, and admit the deadly magic into himself in a way he can control. Yet the Offrangs arrive on the coast, imperialists...

Britain faces down the threat of Napoleon’s invasion… …while Roberta closes her mind to the scandal that assails her own life in order to concentrate on the construction of the ships the Navy needs. Her father-in-law, the Marquess of Tiverton, does not accept her marriage to his son aboard...

The Quest to Unveil Napoleon’s Steamships Continues… Having successfully negotiated steamship contracts with Their Lordships of the Admiralty, Roberta Stephenson, steamship engineer, must now aid her country with intelligence gathering. No-one has descried Napoleon’s steam-powered pyroscaphes,...

The second book in the Roberta Stephenson series, Spies and Subterfuge, is available on Kobo: http://goo.gl/4SHu7R Welcome to the Steampunk World of Regency… …where the power of steam has already passed from the age of unsatisfactory experiments to the first country-spanning railways...

The Roberta Stephenson trilogy collected in one box set! Welcome to the Steampunk World of Regency… …where the power of steam has already passed from the age of unsatisfactory experiments to the first country-spanning railways and ships that no longer sail at the whims of weather....

Imagine the worst possible time, the interregnum while rebelling magic forces slowly kill the reigning Drogar. Prince Egon has to take up the succession as the new sorcerer-king of Rast, and admit the deadly magic into himself in a manner he can control. Yet Offrangs arrive on the coast, imperialists...