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The Journey continues with the mystical Shaman John GreywolfAfter the daring rescue of the Weavers Boles and Wells, The Man in the Black Hat ventures to the grand city of Chicago, to meet with his closest allies, his brother and sisters. Even as he does though, John knows he has set into motion new enemies with evil intentions, setting up new obstacles and dangers he will have to overcome to save his family from an ancient prophecy. John will have...
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His name is John and his existence is a true mystery to almost everyone in this world. In 1929, with the advent of Steam Technology, great warships fly the skies alongside slow moving dirigibles and air trains hauling freight in long lines of box cars. The Protectorate, a single national force composed of the Army, Navy, and Police guards our borders and skies. Magi walk among the populace, wielders of great energy gifted to them by their Weavers,...
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Cynthia Ward's exceptional alternate history turns on the idea of Alexander the Great living beyond his historical death date and the changes that would bring-including an early invention of the steam locomotive (extrapolated from an ancient Greek invention, the aeolipile). A new classic steampunk story!
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Galactic Apocalypse- When The Shadow threatens the galaxy, President Sunbeam deals with it in the usual way- by feeding his sex addiction while cavorting with a lowly crew of drug smugglers. Together they must survive black market lords, demented scientists, and, finally, face the ultimate enemy. Dystopia- An android named Shane loses his job and, finding himself without direction or meaning, goes on a search for the most unlikely of things- love....
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Reviews:"["Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate"] is at one level nearly wacky, but it has deeper concerns, reflected in the examination of the treatment of such disadvantaged individuals as alcoholics, Confederate veterans, the Chinese, Jews, and of course clockwork ex-soldiers. It all comes together very effectively." -- Rich Horton, Locus, July 2008 (Recommended Story)"The story is poignant, sad and funny, bitter and hopeful, and altogether...
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A Great War has wreaked havoc on the world, but that's nothing compared to what Brandon did to her. Betty Bel-Grant lives every day preparing for revenge. She uses her father's plans and builds machines of destruction that no one has ever dreamed of, waiting for the day when the automaton returns. But when he finally shows up again, this time minus the glowing green eyes, he pleads with her to believe that his clockwork parts had been sabotaged; his...
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Mayor Reed just survived Professor Octavian's attack on Lighton, but will she survive the sudden reappearance of her ex-partner, and lover?
Axel whisks Reed away to Under State to attend a one-night-only circus show, but he's got something up his sleeve. How will she react when she learns he wants her to participate in one last con - for old time's sake?
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Philip K. Dick Award-winning author Mark Hodder continues his Burton & Swinburne Adventures with a steampunk adventure set in an alternate England teetering on the edge of annihilation…
After barely surviving his discovery of the source of the Nile, explorer Sir Richard Burton returns home to fame, glory, and a knighthood from his highness King George V. But he also receives another title―King's Agent…for Burton may be the only man who can...
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Lord Kenneth Victeni is the noble son of a powerful mage. But his life of privilege changes when he meets Thorn, a talentless who is studying at the inventor's college, where those without magic develop steam-powered technology. The two men share a mutual attraction, and what's more, Thorn discovers he is Kenneth's lifemate. With just his presence, can double Kenneth's magical power. Together, the two men overcome their differences and the judging...
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Even blood, sweat and gears won't save them now.
Edwin McGillicuddy is a former vampire Enforcer, once the right-hand man to the most powerful Vampire Lord on Earth. Eliza Book is a Poppet, a vampire's plaything, and she's on the run for her life and soul. In an alternate New York City run entirely on steam power and high technology, vampires and shapeshifters are struggling for civil rights, and Edwin and Eliza are about to find themselves in...
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Philip K. Dick Award-winning author Mark Hodder continues his Burton & Swinburne Adventures in an electrifying tale in which the future and the past collide―and the world itself may be altered forever…
Years ago, a madman from the future assassinated the beloved Queen Victoria―which inadvertently sparked the explosion of scientific and industrial advancement that thrust England into a technological age beyond anything ever imagined. And the...
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It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" -enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for centripetal gravity.
This complex and fascinating world is the setting for the novels of Virga, Karl Schroeder's interstellar far-future space habitat...
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Time is twisted, worlds are changed, and fates are intertwined in this thrilling final chapter of the Burton & Swinburne Adventures from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author Mark Hodder.
In 1890 the renowned adventurer and explorer Sir Richard Burton could sense his impending death…
Until he was suddenly alive, young and strong in the year 1864-a past that he remembers well, but which is definitely different from what he previously lived through....
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Major Silas Deveraux will never be the same after enduring terrible experiments performed by mad scientists during the Civil War. In the aftermath he joins the newly formed Bureau of Extraordinaires in order to protect men such as himself. After traveling to New Orleans to investigate the mysterious deaths of other extraordinaires he encounters a young woman named Agatha. She is also an extraordinaire but a very different type with origins a thousand...
15) Fog & Fireflies
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With refreshing echoes of golden age fantasy, Fog & Fireflies is a novel that brings together an imaginative world and fantastical cast of characters to explore the difference between growing older and growing up. "Why do we grow more scared as we get older?" Hundreds of seasons ago, a wizard's war scarred the earth, leaving a malevolent fog blanketing the land, and carrying the settlements within it like ships adrift at sea. The phantoms the fog...
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Some Monsters are Human.
The only heir to the Brandywine fortune, Helena grew up with nothing to want for: Except parents.
For the past ten years, everyone contended, they were dead. Helena had no reason to doubt the General, her stepfather.
On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, seemingly unrelated events pull the young woman from the safety of her gilded cage and haul her into the filthy streets of a magical 1899 San Francisco.
Everything she believes...
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In the city of Bhai Mandwa, towers of steel and glass reach for the sky while boiler-cars roll along streets that are inhabited by gangsters, demonic assassins, inept policemen and wandering ghosts. More than a million people call the city home, one in the midst of an industrial revolution, torn between the traditions of the old world and a new, frightening future. Below, the Genja River flows, waters possessed by spirits and magic from ancient times.Prem...
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Even as she opens the letter, Aurelia knows it is already too late. Still, she has no choice but to answer the summons, though she fears she already knows what she will find. High in a cold and crumbling castle, a bitter man discovers the secret substance of life. A hideous creature opens its eyes. A mechanical golem finds his heart. This pair of abominations of science know they were destined for each other, but they continue to live only at their...
19) Shadow Road
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Brenorra Warring's father is going crazy. That's the only conclusion Bren can come to when a fire destroys everything they own, and his only answer is to take a job in the uncivilized Coalition Colonial Region. On the other side of the ocean. Then disaster strikes at sea, and Bren is left with nothing but the clothes on her back, the things in her father's satchel, and the discovery that someone powerful was willing to kill innocent people to keep...
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There's a reason the assassins always win in the end. Why her family always dies.
He's smarter than she is, whoever he is. More prepared. A mongoose to her cobra. And it doesn't matter how hard she fights, how desperately she bites. In the end, he'll eat her up.
Zarina Nefartari is the last descendant of the ancient queens and it has only ever brought her trouble. She is, after all, a descendant of the sun god who can't bear to see its light....
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