Best Steampunk Books

London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin_x0092_s son is Prime Minister. And steam is the power that runs the world. At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St.

The collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath the city. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld_x0092_s secrets hidden for reasons of his…

As they approach Adult,hood, Cat Barahal and her cousin Bee think they understand the society they live in and their place within it. At a select academy they study new airship technologies and the dawning Industrial Revolution, but magical forces still rule.

Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you_x0092_re the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood.

It is 1973, and the stately airships of the Great Powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. The balance of power is maintained by the British Empire a most equitable and just Empire, ruled by the beloved King Edward VIII.

The first novel in Tim Akers' captivating steampunknoir series, The Burn Cycle. Captainturnedcriminal Jacob Burn is the unlikely survivor of two zepliner crashes. The first destroyed his career as a pilot, disgracing his nobleman father and ending his life of privilege.

Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists.

Col is a wealthy child of privilege. Raised to succeed his grandfather as the Supreme Commander of the juggernaut Worldshaker, he has lived a pampered life on the Upper Decks. He has never questioned his place in the world or his bright and illustrious future.

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_x0092_s ice.

It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire and an assorted group led by the scientist and…

1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steamdriven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time.

HE INHERITED A WATCHMAKER'S STORE AND A WHOLE HEAP OF TROUBLE. But idle sometimemusician George has little talent for clockwork.

An outrageous trio of novellas that bizarrely and brilliantly twists the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of steampunk alternate history Welcome to the world of steampunk, a nineteenth century outrageously reconfigured through weird science.

Magic is dangerous_x0097_but love is more dangerous still.When sixteenyearold Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London_x0092_s Downworld, where…

In the highflying, heady world of 1920s aviation, brash pilot Robert _x0093_Hitch_x0094_ Hitchcock_x0092_s life does a barrel roll when a young woman in an oldfashioned ball gown falls from the clouds smack in front of his biplane.

Newly commissioned lieutenant, Alexis Carew is appointed into HMS Shrewsbury, a 74gun ship of the line in New London_x0092_s space navy.

Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city.

Girl Genius, the multiple Hugo Award_x0096_winning steampunk webcomic by Phil and Kaja Foglio, now collected in hardcover!The Industrial Revolution has become allout war! Mad Scientists, gifted with the Spark of genius, unleash insane inventions on an unprepared Europe.

Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steampowered Technology,, and magicwielding warriors_x0085_Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered…

In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king_x0092_s daughter, Princess Isabella.

The Industrial Revolution has escalated into allout warfare. It has been eighteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can…

Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the midafternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs.

Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy.