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." It includes fiction with science fiction, fantasy or horror themes.

It is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. 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 eith
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New Releases Tagged "Steampunk"

The Cursed Sea (The Glass Spare, #2)
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
The Mortal Word (The Invisible Library, #5)
The Dark Days Deceit (Lady Helen, #3)
The Omega Objection (San Andreas Shifters #2)
The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines Quartet)
Storm Glass (Harbinger #1)
Foundryside (Founders, #1)
Les Disparus du Clairdelune
The Mortal Word (The Invisible Library, #5)
The Watchmaker's Daughter (Glass and Steele, #1)
Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven (Monstress, #3)
Shadow Captain (Revenger, #2)
Eye of Truth (Agents of the Crown, #1)
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #1)
The Hod King (The Books of Babel, #3)
Changeling (Sorcery and Society, #1)
Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, #2)
Escape from Lucien (Amulet, #6)
The Cursed Sea (The Glass Spare, #2)
The Armored Saint (The Sacred Throne, #1)
Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #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)
Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)
Goliath (Leviathan, #3)
Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk, #1)
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

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Tara Sim
Tara Sim Timekeeper (Timekeeper, #1)
Mystery, magical clocks, and an LGBT steampunk romance combine in Timekeeper, Sim's much-anticipated debut. Here she describes her favorite fantasy and love stories.
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Chris Wooding
“ The Ketty Jay was staffed with drunkards and drifters, all of them running from something -- whether it be memories or enemies or the drudgery of land-bound life -- but since Yortland they'd been running in the same direction. United by that common purpose, they'd begun to turn into something resembling a crew. And Frey had begun to turn into something resembling a captain. ”
― Chris Wooding, Retribution Falls

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

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