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The Somnambulist
Jonathan Barnes - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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'Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It is a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.'... |
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The Manual of Detection
Jedediah Berry - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people's dreams In an unnamed city always slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge,... |
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Soulless
Gail Carriger - Orbit
Format: eBook
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Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse... |
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
Gordon Dahlquist - Bantam Books
Format: Hardcover
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With translation rights sold in twenty-five countries, Gordon Dahlquist's spectacular and extraordinary debut novel was one of the most-talked-about acquisitions of 2005. Now this monumental Victorian thriller is destined to be the publishing sensation of 2006.It began with a simple note:... |
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The Difference Engine
William Gibson - Spectra
Format: Paperback
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The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel With new commentary by the authors 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time.... |
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The Greyfriar
Clay Griffith - Pyr
Format: Print book
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Rousing pulp action and steampunk come together in a spellbinding story of high adventure and alternate history. In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. It is now 2020 and a bloody reckoning is coming. Princess Adele is heir to the Empire... |
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The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
Mark Hodder - Pyr
Format: Paperback
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London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy... |
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The Court of the Air
Stephen Hunt - Tor
Format: Print book
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When streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has recently been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to run back to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was the real target of the attack.... |
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Mainspring
Jay Lake - Tor
Format: Hardcover
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Jay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky,... |
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Steamed: A Steampunk Romance
Katie MacAlister - Signet
Format: Book
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Read Katie MacAlister's posts on the Penguin Blog.View our feature on Katie MacAlister's Steamed.Katie MacAlister takes on Steampunk-and romance gets hotter than ever... When one of Jack Fletcher's nanoelectromechanical system experiments is jostled in his lab, the resulting explosion... |
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The Affinity Bridge
George Mann - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets... |
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The Falling Machine
Andrew P. Mayer - Pyr
Format: Paperback
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This new steampunk series opens in 1880, when women aren't allowed to vote, much less dress up in a costume and fight crime. But twenty year-old socialite Sarah Stanton still dreams of becoming a hero. Her opportunity arrives in tragedy when the leader of the Society of Paragons, New York's... |
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Perdido Street Station
China Mieville - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardThe metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years,... |
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The Dream of Perpetual Motion
Dexter Palmer - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A debut so magical ... so extraordinary ... it has to be read to be believed ... .Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent,... |
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Boneshaker
Cherie Priest - Tor Books
Format: Paperback
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In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's... |
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Steampunk
Ann VanderMeer - Tachyon Publications
Format: Paperback
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Steampunk is Victorian elegance and modern technology: steam-driven robots, souped-up stagecoaches, and space-faring dirigibles fueled by gaslight romance, mad scientists, and oh-so-trim waistcoats. It's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,... |
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