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

New Releases Tagged "Steampunk"

Steel Gods (The Great Silence, #2)
The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
The Rose Field (Book of Dust, #3)
City of Mirth and Malice (Vows of Vengeance, #2)
The Blackfire Blade (The Last Legacy, #2)
Steel Gods (The Great Silence, #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 Most Boring Book Ever
The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)
The Toymaker's Curse (Glass and Steele, #11)
Warriorborn (The Cinder Spires #1.5)
Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School, #1)
Blameless (Parasol Protectorate, #3)
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
Heartless (Parasol Protectorate, #4)
Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)
The Iron Duke (Iron Seas, #1)
Behemoth (Leviathan, #2)
Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School, #2)
The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1)
Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)
Goliath (Leviathan, #3)
Hopebreaker by Dean F. WilsonMoonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer PapeBy Any Other Name by Michel R. VaillancourtFor Steam And Country by Jon Del ArrozFables of the Reconstruction by Jez Jones
Best Unknown Steampunk
243 books — 334 voters
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanSoulless by Gail CarrigerBehemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Best YA Steampunk Books
217 books — 321 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenIt Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsDark Lover by J.R. WardDevil in Winter by Lisa KleypasOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
Favorite Romance Books
686 books — 141 voters
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Books that you wish had a sequel(s)
155 books — 99 voters


Gail Carriger
Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama
Gail Carriger

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