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If Jane Austen wrote sci-fi, she might have envisioned great airships and pneumatically powered carriages. She might have penned a tale about a romance between a Scottish lad and the niece of the Duke of Wellington, both being gifted in the mechanical arts and brought together by a great threat to their queen and her empire.

Some time after Inspector Newcomen’s strange case concerning Dr. Jekyll, the occurrence of a dreadful mental deviancy begins possesses many of the cultivated and sophisticated occupants of London’s West End. For Newcomen and others, it can be no coincidence that the outbreak seems suspiciously near to the home and surgery of the doctor whose demise was of such untoward circumstances.

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Astaria is ruled by wizards, everyone knows that. Quinn is a journeyman blacksmith for the Wizard Usorin until Quinn loses his arm and his livelihood after a tragic accident. When he is befriended by Roland, he learns the secret behind the wizard’s power and is set on a path against a foe who seeks to destroy not only Astaria, but magic itself.

These are the chronicles of Igraine Mortuba’s adventures in Hades: an inter-dimensional space station drifting inside the void between worlds. Once she makes her way through the Halls of Hades, she ends up in Arkology. A cobbled-together community of refugees who, after losing their respective worlds to catastrophe, are delivered to this subterranean realm by an entity known as the White Airship.

Bradley erhält eine zweite Chance auf einem Steampunk-Planeten. Die wundersamen Anblicke fesseln, die Geräte faszinieren, und mit Dampf ist alles möglich. Bei seinem Versuch, die Wildnis zu erkunden, erlebt Bradley ein paar herzzerreißende Abenteuer, die neue Möglichkeiten eröffnen und unerwünschte Probleme mit sich bringen. Mit dem richtigen Einsatz, ein bisschen Witz und einer Prise Glück kann er Großes erreichen.

After narrowly escaping the Reawakening, Angel successfully delivered Vanessa to Molten Ridges with the help of Captain Silver. He’d love to do nothing more than spend a year relaxing and studying Old World Magic, but he knows there can be no peace until the Reawakening are dealt with. The Buried Gods walk the Barren once more, and the Reawakening’s plot runs far deeper than he ever could have imagined. A plan hundreds of years in the making is only months from coming to fruition with only Angel standing in its way, but how can he deal with the Reawakening if he can’t trust his own allies?

Vonn the Engineer has invented the airplane in a magical world, using his secret knowledge from Earth. He's just crash-landed next to a living, unholy dungeon with a prisoner to save. And when he returns, there's real work to do. So far, Vonn has used the arcane rules of the "System" to earn spells and other powers. There's no dark overlord to slay, so he and his friends are free to build. This kingdom's technology is just starting to take off, partly thanks to airships and tools powered by the physics of magic crystals.

It's the year 3245. Earth's Republic evolved into the Galactic Empire. After the outpost wars, the Galactic Space Force became the peacekeepers. Up from the ashes rose rogue pilots. These pilots became the Pirates of the Galactic Empire.

When the Peace King of the Free Cities goes missing, aging former war hero Ellaria Moonstone uncovers a plot to overthrow the tenuous republic. Fearing that a powerful being called a Sagean Luminary has returned to build a new empire, Ellaria sends for help from old allies and expatriates scattered across the chaotic frontier.

All the poet called Sleepy wants to do is spit his verses, smoke chiba, and stay off the COP’s radar—all of which becomes impossible once he encounters a professional protestor known as (120 Degrees of) Knowledge Allah. They soon find themselves on the wrong side of local authorities and have to elude the powers that be.

Caught in a bidding war for his sister’s freedom he can hardly hope to win, Van Delano embarks on his most challenging quest yet: to locate previously undiscovered Old World ruins for the outlaw queen Nine-Fingered Nan.

All Kat wants to do is run her own life. But it seems as though everyone else has competing plans for her. Her commander of the Bosch Pirate Force wants her to lead. Her husband wants her to abandon her pirating ways. Her mother-in-law wouldn’t mind seeing her dead. And her past enslaver, Rob Abernathy, wants her back. As listeners of A Merry Life know, Kat is fearless, principled, and determined to settle old scores. When a face from her past spurs a dangerous mission, she jumps at the opportunity, unaware that it will have explosive results.

Die Nautilus liegt noch immer auf dem seltsamen Wüstenplanten. Die verbliebene Besatzung entschließt sich zu einer Erkundungsmission und trifft auf merkwürdig vertraut wirkende Bewohner und eine uralte Stadt. Doch schnell wird klar, dass dort eine tödliche Bedrohung lauert.

Eine Stadt auf drei Ebenen. Mysteriöse Stromausfälle. Und ein Geheimnis, das seit der Entstehung von Layer City in ihren Grundfesten schlummert. Der Mechaniker Rufus ersteht auf dem Metalday, einem Mekka für Schrauber und Bastler, einen goldenen Würfel. Er ist mit nichts in seiner mechanischen Welt vergleichbar: keine Schrauben, kein Rauch, keine sich bewegenden Teile. Seine Nachforschungen zu diesem Artefakt führen ihn tief in die Geschichte der Stadt.

Anna-Marie Pauper was perfectly practical in every way. Or so she thought until a ragtag group of stolen orphans, a dangerously flirtatious criminal, and a beguiling airship captain soon had her emotions in an uproar, breaking down her carefully crafted barriers. She rescues the girls only to place them into a new kind of prison, a beautiful prison she herself has lived in for five years.

Zoom back into the world of the Treasure Chronicles with this collection of short stories. Clark, Amethyst, and the Treasure gang return with new adventures. Strap on your goggles. Lace up your corset. It's time for a steamy ride.

Mit dem Auftrag die Buchhaltung der Erzminen der Königin zu prüfen, begegnet der Wirtschaftsprüfer Howard Forsyth dem berüchtigten und gefürchteten Verwalter der Minen. Schon bald wird sein Leben auf einer abenteuerlichen Zugfahrt mit Steam Cars und einem dampfgetriebenen Flugobjekt bedroht. So hatte er sich den Prüfauftrag von Lord Palmerston nicht vorgestellt. Als er dann noch unter Mordverdacht am früheren Buchhalter steht, eilt ihm seine heimliche Geliebte zu Hilfe, von der niemand wissen darf.

Marshal Biella of House Chi leads the assault, eager to make Lambda pay for all the hurt they have caused her and her House. But House Lambda—led by the ruthless and cunning Lady Leonor—is a formidable opponent that will not be easily intimidated. Far from the battle, Marshal Xanthe’s mysterious empathic affliction is getting worse. The technologically advanced Fraternity believe they have the means to cure her—but in doing so, expose horrifying secrets about Xanthe’s past that force her to question her very identity.

The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time is an unconventional and breath-taking tour de force that flirts with the crossover and steampunk genres. The book knits together a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and myriad letters and journal pages from across two millennia, much of it held together by the pithy comments of a certain elderly beekeeper residing in Sussex, England. While comparatively few, these notes are nonetheless the essential marble skeleton on which the whole denouement and structure of the book hangs.