Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Science Fiction - Steampunk

BARBARA FLYNN's only skills are embroidery and being a snob. She and her nagging mother find themselves in the middle of a terrible siege without even a change of clothes. With the threat of painful death on all sides she must fend for herself and her mother.

Lieutenant ANGUS FERGUSON, of the British Army has only one duty: keeping the civilians alive in terrible circumstances. As the only survivor from a Scotsman regiment he is driven to succeed.

Set in Indian in 1857 this is a powerful, tragic tale of love, lust and loss in a Victorian world slightly different to the one we...

Heart, a girl of fifteen, lives in a world of madness and grace, where test-tube babies are propagated to discover the secrets of Eternal Life. Left as a foundling on the doorstep of a Darling Undesirables facility, alive and healthy - without a heart - she has always loved stars.

Her first love is Caffau's star, 13 billion years old, in the Heart of Leo, one of the oldest and most mysterious stars in the Universe. Her destiny is set into motion when a Being of Light comes to her from Caffau's star. With a voice of wind chimes, he takes her on a journey through the Universe and...

In a future one thousand years from now, an echo of the Victorian past thrives. A future terraformed Venus sees our era of high technology as one of innumerable dangers. Dominated by the most advanced technological society on the planet, New Berlin, the nation and city-states of Venus deliberately imitate both the technology and culture of the Victorian Era. As nations chafe under the yoke of New Berlin, war breaks out--driving this culture so much like our past into a future entirely unlike our own.

This short-story anthology explores the regions and cultures of Victorian Venus,...

VERONICA is a grotesque monster with or without her clothes.

At least that's what she's always been told and, when she sees her twisted body in the mirror every day, she knows it to be true. Kept out of the sight of everyone she grows up isolated and unfamiliar with how a normal person should behave.

When she accidentally reveals her distorted frame to the undergardener, on her eighteenth birthday, and he is not revolted, she takes the first tentative steps in a journey of sexual awakening that knows no bounds.

But as she settles into her private...

VERONICA is a grotesque monster with or without her clothes.

At least that's what she's always been told and, when she sees her twisted body in the mirror every day, she knows it to be true. Kept out of the sight of everyone she grows up isolated and unfamiliar with how a normal person should behave.

When she accidentally reveals her distorted frame to the undergardener, on her eighteenth birthday, and he is not revolted, she takes the first tentative steps in a journey of sexual awakening that knows no bounds.

But as she settles into her private...

A mystical vision of an airship appears to fifteen-year-old Juanita. The ethereal captain commands her to prevent California’s thrown-away people—including young children—from boarding trains to an asylum. That institution’s director plots murder to reduce the inmate population. Yet to save innocent lives Juanita must take lives of the corrupt. How can she reconcile her assignment with her belief in the sacredness of all human life? And will she survive to marry her betrothed?

Juanita sets out despite inner trepidation to sabotage the railroad. Her ancestor...