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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 aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of...

With a new class unlocked, Clay has been chosen to compete in the infamous Solmini Summoner Tournament. No big deal, barring the mortality rate for contestants. The plan is simple: compete, survive, and find allies in the growing conflict across Illyria. But with warring factions and political intrigue dominating the desert capital, one false move could spell disaster for Clay and his friends. Let the trials begin.

Connor McKay can tell at a glance that Belinda's magickal powers are minimal at best. She can't be guilty of murdering village children. There's something suspicious about her arrest and lightning-quick sentence. Unfortunately, telling anyone how he knows would mean revealing his own powers. He's been sent by the Order of the Round Table to help and he can't just let her die. Escaping from jail and running from vindictive villagers in her grandfather's steam-powered caravan is more excitement than Belinda's had in years.

As a member of the Order of the Round Table, Kendall Lake is overqualified to be investigating strange phenomena at a seaside photography studio. But since the photographer is related to the Order's most powerful sorcerer, Kendall reluctantly boards a dirigible to Brighton.

In Oxford on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War, Nathaniel Bishop is an electrician who is busy converting the colleges over from gas to electric light. However, his real passion is science and he idolises the famous Nikola Tesla working at the cutting edge of experimental science. To be involved in something like that seems an impossible dream for Nathan until the mysterious Professor Felix Schneider offers him the opportunity of a lifetime to work as an assistant in his home laboratory.

When Vesta Bartlett, a wealthy alchemist and inventor, arrives in England to finalize an arranged marriage and help overhaul a family friend's outdated ironworks, she never expects to find the family so secretive, nor to develop feelings for her fiancé’s younger brother, Henry. But, the growing attraction between Vesta and Henry is just the beginning of their troubles. Things really heat up when they're drawn into a secret project for Queen Victoria's military, one that requires Vesta's knowledge of clockwork and Henry’s iron.

US Marshal Mason Sadler has a great hustle going on with the vivacious and lovely Belle Dubois, the madam of the Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. She keeps the outlaws occupied until he conveniently shows up to arrest them after which she and Mason split the reward.

Gretchen Jane Darkmood didn’t ask to grow up with a crook for a dad and a woman constantly tussling with crows for a mother. She didn’t ask to steal armed riflemen’s motorbikes, fly giant steam-powered birds, fall in love in the wild, or have to run from the wolves for her life. But since all she had to pay Mother Fate was a penny she stole off the ground, a life of flying with crows and running with wolves was what she got anyway. Only one place on earth had enough gold for her to buy a new fate: Alaska.

Some time after the events of Fiendish Schemes, George Dower finds himself a widower, of sorts. On her deathbed, Miss McThane entrusts Dower with a small, ticking clockwork box. The box is mysteriously linked to her. When she breathes her last, the box stops ticking and Dower is able to open it, to find hundreds of letters - written in an unknown hand, signed only with the initial S. They’re not love letters, but refer instead to the letter-writer’s ongoing search for some other person. The last is a simple note, reading “Found him”...

Wayran wants one thing: the truth behind the Jendar, an ancient technomancer race that vanished overnight, leaving only myths and impossible machines. A sandstorm. A crash. A tower from his dreams. And a journal in the hands of a corpse. The journal flips a dead mystery into a living threat, awakening something that should have staryed buried. Judgment is coming. Nine lives. One design. No escape.

There is no time to rest for Eliza D. Braun and Wellington Thornhill Books. The man who has haunted and hounded them since the fall of the Maestro, Doctor Henry Jekyll, is now on a killing spree, using bizarre, theatrical murders as a way to taunt their inability to capture him. It falls on Books and Braun to turn the tables on Jekyll and bring him to justice. As Wellington and Eliza continue their pursuit of the madman, Jekyll, the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences stand against a recent surge in House of Usher activity.

In 1986, K. W. Jeter coined the term steampunk, applying it to his first Victorian-era science fiction alternate-history adventure. At last he has returned with a new tale of George Dower, son of the inventor of Infernal Devices, who has been in self-imposed exile…accumulating debt. The world Dower left when he went into hiding was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London; a mad whirl of civilization filled with gadgets and gears in the least expected places.

Meet up with Tee, Elly, and Richy as their peaceful little world is shattered when they become entangled in a plot to steal the world's first steam engine plans from master inventor, Nikolas Klaus. Will Klaus' ties to the secret society known as the Tub (led by a butcher, baker, and candlestick maker) be their undoing? Or will they live on to become legends?

Lady Georgia Brunel, widowed a year, has been looking forward to her holiday in the Duchy of Venice with her companion, Millicent Brunel. The clockwork city’s annual art exhibition is in full swing, and old friends and new acquaintances make for an exciting social whirl.

A portal back to Earth. Disappearing AI. The final battle has begun. After living inside a video game for months, Clay now has the rare chance to log out. The only problem is: the game's AI guardians have run off to Earth themselves. The fate of all reality now hangs in the balance. With new powers and a new mission, Clay and his pals have three days to trek across post-apocalyptic Earth and recapture the runaway AI guardians. If they fail, both worlds online and off will cease to exist.

England, 1876. Twenty-year-old Maraina Blackwood has always struggled to adhere to the restrictive standards of Victorian society, denying the courage and desire that burn within her soul. But after a terrifying supernatural encounter, Maraina's instincts compel her to action. Maraina soon discovers a plot to unleash a new world - one of demonic aristocrats, bloody rituals, and nightmarish monsters. Putting her upbringing aside, Maraina vows to fight the dark forces assuming control of England. But as her world transforms, Maraina finds that she too must transform...

James "Bodacious" Creed stopped a killer and helped bring peace to Santa Cruz, a coastal California city on the edge of the American frontier. Now, the undead lawman, resurrected with steam-based technology, takes on dangerous criminal cases as a private investigator. One night while riding by the wharf, Creed hears a gunshot. He and his coyote companion, Coconino, rush to the scene

It's the story of Jason, a wealthy son of privilege who longs to be a warrior. His father's death means Jason can finally join the Argonauts, an elite group of warriors who've overhauled their genetic code. It's the story of Medea, a scientist who toils away in a lab changing people's genes. She gives the warriors their powers, but she never gets an ounce of credit. And now she's found herself fighting alongside them. And it's the story of an adventure turned suicide mission, all for the sake of a crown.

Jace Hughes jest Renegatem. Oznacza to, że przyjmuje każde zlecenie, jakie wpada mu w ręce, bez względu na sytuację. Dopóki więc jest w stanie utrzymywać swój statek, może żyć tak, jak chce. Wszystko się jednak zmienia, kiedy poznaje Abigail Pryar, mniszkę pragnącą wydostać się bezpiecznie z układu. Wkrótce okazuje się, że z ładunkiem, który zabrała na pokład, coś jest nie tak. Jace wie, że nie powinien zadawać zbyt wielu pytań, jednak kiedy z dużej, metalowej skrzyni zaczynają dobiegać dziwne odgłosy, nie może się powstrzymać, aby nie sprawdzić co się w niej kryje.

Sergeant Ripley Coulter leads the army's E-Squad, defending the metaverse from online attacks in NeuralNet, a completely immersive reality. When enemy fighters take him out in a massive explosion, he wakes up in a strange new world powered by steam and primitive electronics. Fortunately, his game implant is still operable.... In this world, London is Ethinium. The UK is Greater Umbria. And the empires of Europe reign supreme atop ancient steam vaults filled with dark secrets.