Steampunk category: 2390 books

A prologue comes before the formal chapters of a novel, and generally sets a scene, introduces some important characters, or reveals a theme whose importance will become apparent later in the story. My novel "To Rule the Skies" already has a prologue, but this story takes place chronologically immediately...

Dieses eBook: "Atomgewicht 500" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Atomgewicht 500 ist einer der bekanntesten Romane des Science-Fiction-Pioniers Hans Dominik, dieses Werk ist ein spannender Roman über Konkurrenz...

Westlich is not a book, but rather two short stories that take place in a hypothetical Old West, mixing elements of horror and sci-fi and fantasy.

A collection of priceless artefacts has been stolen from the Langford Museum. The authorities have no leads. The museum guild, determined to keep the theft from public knowledge, have hired a discrete team of experts to track down the missing artefacts and bring them back before anyone notices that...

In an alternative nineteenth century, of a frozen and depopulated northern Europe, an Anglo-Welsh boy is crippled by a steam tractor, and goes into indenture in Italy to earn a mechanical leg.Seven years later, Llewellyn-Gareth sells himself into a second apprenticeship, to learn the secrets...

Ragged Claws is the second volume of The Book of the Colossus. Like the first in the series, Thumb, Ragged Claws is set at the very end of the universe, when all the stars and planets have dissolved into quantum ash. The last remnants of humanity live on an immense, flat singularity created for them...

When Charley Eaton’s father is unexpectedly killed in an accident, his spirit visits him in a dream and asks Charley to finish the invention he knows will change the world. The young boy works tirelessly to bring his father home for Christmas, and to everyone’s surprise, his new improved mechanical father bears a vibrating gift, which pleases his wife more than he ever could in life.

Den Gammon is fed up with working at Big Banger Rentals. When the boss makes him take a customer to hospital, in the middle of a riot, this might just be Den's opportunity. A dieselpunk story from the writer of Katie Stumbled and Where There's Water.

WWI, called by so many "The Great War", was hoped to be the War to End All Wars. Millions of lives ended in new and ever-more violent ways on its battlefields. Thousands more brought home memories that left them little more than walking wounded. One such man was Dr. Colwyn Rhys-Myers, newly-returned...

The Great Depression never ate the country alive. WWII refuses to put out its raging fires. Every major city across fifty states has been blown sky-high by blitzing. This is 1952, America. The only choice the denizens of a war-torn Los Angeles have left is to plunge into the deep dark...

La Ligue atterrit dans un nouvel univers, bien différent du précédent : Sinik, cité futuriste dominée par un gouvernement totalitaire. Dès leur arrivée, les choses tournent mal et ils sont capturés, hommes et femmes sont séparés....

Dr. Sheridan Bloch and Lt. Beecher Skotte travel through time and space in their fantastic vehicle, the Great Momentosphere. The Momentosphere's atomic-powered kinetic bands transport them from physical locations to the mysterious Void, and back again. However, they cannot predict where, or when,...

When a storm sends Rat’s airship off course, he lands smack dab in the middle of a group of dimwitted kidnappers. With the help of his two best friends, a nine-hundred-year-old robot and a droid who always believes they’re on the verge of dying, Rat escapes the kidnappers’ clutches before rescuing...

The year is 1940. In Europe Czech and German republicans have been fighting for years against the Habsburg Emperor's oppressive rule. Rebel spy Johnny Bornewald is dispatched to the southern-most continent of Alba, the home of the non-human ursines, to gather technological intelligence about the enemies....