steampunk fiction

Far beneath the city of San Francisco is the key that could help Trenton and Kallista stop the white dragon's power from spreading across the world. If they don't act fast, the entire human race could be enslaved to the white dragon, and Kallista's father, who they've finally found, could be under the strange spell that has him contently doing the dragon's bidding forever.

"Introduces an alternative 19th century of fantastical, coal-powered robots, aerial steam carriages, floating cities, giant mechanical birds and a new kind of secret agent"--Dust jacket.

"Anglet Sutonga, a former Steeplejack, must pose as a foreign princess to catch the thief who stole the government's plans for a secret weapon. Yet Ang has other things on her mind as well. Refugees from the north are trickling into the city, but an ambitious politician is proposing extreme measures to get rid of them, and when Ang discovers that one theft could spark a conflagration of conspiracy that will threaten the most vulnerable of Bar-Selehm, she decides she is the only one who can stop it."--Adapted from dust jacket.

Even though technology and creative inventions have been outlawed in the steam-powered mountain city of Cove, in order to save the city, young Trenton and Kallista must follow a set of mysterious blueprints to build a creature to protect them from the dragons outside their door.

"Rufkin must learn to try harder. He is sent to work in a salvage yard, where vicious cave lizards lurk in the mud, among rusting ship hulks saved for scrap. When he hears a small voice cry "Help!" from the riverbank mangroves, Rufkin and his reluctant new neighbour, Nissy, are caught up in a perilous sea adventure that threatens to bring the end-of-days. Rufkin, the boy who suffers stage-fright, is suddenly centre stage: the only one who can right an ancient wrong and save the kingdom"--Back cover.

Trenton and Kallista travel to a steampunk version of Seattle hoping to find Kallista's missing father, but instead find themselves in the middle of a war between the Order of the Beast, who worships dragons, and the Whipjacks, who are building weapons to destroy the animals.

A tale set in late nineteenth century steampunk Seattle finds orphaned Karen working in a high-quality bordello, where she confronts a powerful man who owns a dangerous mind-control machine.

For ambitious engineer Simon Darcy, winning Queen Victoria?s competition to recover lost inventions of historical significance is a matter of pride?and redemption. After all, it was Simon?s failed monorail project that left his family destitute, and winning the tournament would surely restore the Darcys? reputation. Simon sets his sights high, targeting no less than the infamous time-travel device that forever changed the world by transporting scientists, engineers, and artists from the twentieth century. The Mod technology was banned and supposedly destroyed, but Simon is sure he can re-create it.

"Living a life of luxury in seventeenth-century France, Lady Marguerite falls for a commoner and follows him to New France, embarking on a tumultuous journey across the ocean"--OCLC.

A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in an alternate universe where romance and technology reign and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.