Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Science Fiction - Steampunk

Revolutionary young samurai with dirigibles take on Commodore Perry and his Black Ships in this alternate history steampunk technofantasy set in 1850s samurai-era Japan.

In Japan of 1852, the peace imposed by the Tokugawa Shoguns has lasted 250 years. Peace has turned to stagnation, however, as the commoners grow impoverished and their lords restless. Swords rust. Martial values decay. Foreign barbarians circle the island nation's closed borders like vultures, growing ever more demanding.

Tōru, a shipwrecked young fisherman rescued by American traders and...

A Japan that might have been...Revolutionary young samurai take on the West in this alternate history steampunk technofantasy set in 1850s samurai-era Japan.

In Japan of 1852, the peace imposed by the Tokugawa Shoguns has lasted 250 years. Peace has turned to stagnation, however, as the commoners grow impoverished and their lords restless. Swords rust. Martial values decay. Foreign barbarians circle the island nation's closed borders like vultures, growing ever more demanding.

Tōru, a shipwrecked young fisherman rescued by American traders and taken to...

Ordell Rutledge lives in the small town of Blackwick where he helps in his father s modest automaton shop. While he enjoys interacting with the few people who grace his father s business, he feels isolated because he can t relate to them. For ten years, life s been quaint and peaceful, but Ordell has a secret: he is an automaton, sentient enough to pass as human.

Ordell s life is upended when the person he trusts most betrays him. Heartbroken, he sets off for Linnesse, a city that accepts automatons as people and is booming with the latest technology. With another sentient automaton,...

Alexander Drake, Investigator for Hire, doesn't like working for the Nobility, and doesn't prefer to take jobs from strange men who accost him in alleyways. A combination of hired muscle and ready silver have a way of changing a man's mind.

A lord has been killed, his body found covered in bite marks. Even worse, the late lord's will is missing, and not everyone wants Drake to find it. Solving the case might plunge Drake into deeper danger.

City of Wolves is a gaslamp fantasy noir from debut author Willow Palecek.

Science and adventure are electrifying accomplices in Jules Verne's classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. This epic and enduring tale anticipates not just wonders such as electric light and submarine navigation, but the obsession with technology and travel that today so shapes our lives. It is Verne's inspired foresight, combined with his extraordinary talent for storytelling, that continue to make this novel such a compelling read. The excitement this adventure caused around the world when it was first published 150 years ago can still be very easily imagined indeed in the...

Lodninsk, Morozhia is a frozen, industrial wasteland. Isolated by steep mountains and ruled by an authoritarian government, it isn't anyone's idea of home-sweet-home.

Zoya and her friends Demyan, Lilia, Anya, and Nikolai decide to leave their freezing home to start a new life. They set their sights on the tropical paradise of Mirgorod, Vernulaia, where they can study at its prestigious university while taking in the sun and sand...but nothing ever goes so smoothly.

When pirates attack their passenger ship, the friends are shanghaied and forced to be part of their crew. What's...

A Deal with a Devil Novel

Thomas Escott has always wanted to be a toymaker, yet just as he achieves his dream, an accident claims his right hand. He's certain his life is over -- until he hears about groundbreaking prosthetics being made by a reclusive inventor.

Jethro Hastings is perfectly content to live alone up in the mountains working on a secret masterpiece: a humanoid automaton that will change the scientific community forever. He's behind schedule, and the date of the unveiling is fast approaching, so when Thomas shows up on his doorstep offering help...

Hang on to the edge of your seat with the latest anthology of Steampunk flash fiction, featuring pairs of stories thirty days apart. Filled with rayguns and corsets, ghosts and gamblers, dragons and airships, Thirty Days Later is the latest from the Treehouse Writers, fifteen talented authors, artists and poets returning with a sequel to Twelve Hours Later, the must-read Steampunk anthology of 2015. Thirty Days Later features stories of intrigue and deceit, of comeuppance and conspiracy, of myths and monsters, of defectors and dilettantes, of time travel and time relentlessly passing. Join...

The Artifacts of Power includes books Seven, Eight and Nine of the Godsland Series:
The Fifth Magic
Dragonhold
The Seventh Magic

The stars have gone...
Long dormant relics bask in the light of a hundred comets, restoring magics of a previous age. Objects inert for eons become dangers and tools no one can ignore. The use of these artifacts will put everything at risk; all the while providing the greatest opportunity for human advancement in history.
No matter what...

300 years in the future the world is run by the Theocracy and the Apostles are their representatives. The tiny, dusty and ironically named town of Big City has never seen Apostles until the newly deputized team, Reesa and Joule, are given their first assignment-get to the bottom of the town's untapped oil reserves. They are a married couple, supposed to have been matched perfectly by the Theocracy, and Reesa is eager to do her duty while Joule is dismayed at the backwater, Old West-style location they find themselves in.

Just as Big City belies its name, so do nearly all appearances...

The Balance of Power trilogy is the second trilogy in the World of Godsland fantasy series.

Book One - Regent
Book Two - Feral
Book Three - Regal

In the years since the end of The Herald War, the world has become complacent despite Catrin Volker's warnings. When the darkness of her visions comes to pass, no one is prepared, and the fate of humanity will rest in her hands.

The World of Godsland young adult epic fantasy series includes:

The...

The Balance of Power trilogy is the second trilogy in the World of Godsland fantasy series.

Book One - Regent
Book Two - Feral
Book Three - Regal

In the years since the end of The Herald War, the world has become complacent despite Catrin Volker's warnings. When the darkness of her visions comes to pass, no one is prepared, and the fate of humanity will rest in her hands.

The World of Godsland young adult epic fantasy series includes:

The...

Fall in love with Nattie. Her quick wit, bubbly personality, superior intellect, and childlike playfulness will tickle your heart. She loves her best friend Jase with all her being; if only she could get him to feel the same way. She follows Jase everywhere he goes, on every adventure. Jase is obsessed with winning the pirate competition. He has won the youth and teen division for the past three years running.

One day, while rummaging through ancient books for costume ideas in a rustic bookstore, Nattie and Jase make an amazing discovery. They find an ancient book that sets them off...

The Artifacts of Power includes books Seven, Eight and Nine of the Godsland Series:
The Fifth Magic
Dragonhold
The Seventh Magic

The stars have gone...
Long dormant relics bask in the light of a hundred comets, restoring magics of a previous age. Objects inert for eons become dangers and tools no one can ignore. The use of these artifacts will put everything at risk; all the while providing the greatest opportunity for human advancement in history.
No matter what happens...