Most Read This Week In Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." The term denotes works set in an era or world where STEAM POWER is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Steampunk"

City of Mirth and Malice (Vows of Vengeance, #2)

The Blackfire Blade (The Last Legacy, #2)

The Orb of Cairado (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1.1)

The Veiled Throne (The Dandelion Dynasty, #3)

The Spy Master's Scheme (Glass and Steele, #12)

The Goldsmith's Conspiracy (Glass and Steele, #13)

The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)

The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House

The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

The Toymaker's Curse (Glass and Steele, #11)

Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

Mortedant's Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp, #1)

A Conjuring of Ravens (A Practical Guide to Sorcery #1)

Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo (Inkbound #1)

Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1)

All Fun and Games (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth #11)

The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls

Murder on the Lamplight Express (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #2)

Batman: Gotham By Gaslight - The Kryptonian Age

His Mortal Demise (The Last Bloodcarver, #2)

The Blood Phoenix (Fall of the Dragon, #2)

Hessians and Hellhounds (Manners and Monsters, #6)

Grimoires and Where to Find Them (Case Files of Henri Davenforth #6)

Three Axes to Fall (The Grave of Empires, #3)

Min Zemerin's Plan (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1.5)

Opening Gambit (Tournament of Shadows, #1)

Bound by the Sky (Aether & Industry, #1)

Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose (Marion Lane, #2)

A Killer in the Crystal Palace (The Kier and Levett Mystery, #1)

Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea

A Vampire in Bavaria (Miss Sharp's Monsters, #3)

A Matter of Secrets and Spies (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, #10)

This Potion Is da Bomb (Case Files of Henri Davenforth, #8)

Elisa Hemmiltons Kofferkrimi (Staubchronik-Universum, #2)

Lora Selezh (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #0.5)

Peril: Elven Alliance Collected Stories Volume One (Elven Alliance)

The Imagination Chamber (His Dark Materials, #3.7)

Echoes of the Imperium (Tales of the Iron Rose, #1)

The Book of Ile-Rien: The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer (Ile-Rien, #1-2)

Spindles and Thorns (The Society of Roses, #1)

Engines of Chaos (The Age of Uprising, #2)

Death Over the Garden Wall (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth #7)

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All In A Name (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, #9)

Rise of the Catalyst (Ancient Magicks Artifact #1)

A Matter of Execution (Tales of the Iron Rose #0.5)

The Infernal Devices: The Complete Trilogy (The Infernal Devices: Manga, #1-3)

Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge (Marion Lane, #3)

Mistletoe and Mireworth: A Manners and Monsters Christmas Novella

No Land For Heroes (Legends & Legacies, #1)

First Encounter: The Shinigami and the Royal Mage (Case Files of Henri Davenforth #0.5)

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Quotes Tagged “Steampunk”

“ Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun! ”
― George Mann

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“ Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on. And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above a ...more ”
― Philip Pullman

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