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BostonPL_Just Glue Some Gears On It: 14 eBooks for Steampunk Lovers

Whether you're a fan of retrofuturism or a newcomer to the idea of alternative technologies set in pasts similar to our own, these fast-paced, entertaining reads will have you dreaming of worlds that might have been!

Boston Public Library

15 items

  • When Alexia, a soulless spinster with the ability to negate supernatural powers, accidentally kills a vampire, her life goes from bad to worse -- until Lord Maccon, a gorgeous werewolf, is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.
    eBookOrbit, 2009
  • In 1842, the gunpowder might of China's Qing Dynasty fell to Britain's steam engines. Furious, the Emperor ordered the death of his engineers, eliminating China's best chance of fighting back.
    eBookJeannie Lin, 2017
  • Honoria Todd is being hunted by a vicious blue-blood, and her only chance of survival lies with the notorious master of the rookeries in Whitechapel. But at what price? Her blood? Or something more?
    eBookSourcebooks Inc, 2012
  • After freeing England from Horde control, Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire. When Detective Mina Wentworth enters his dangerous world to investigate a mysterious death, Rhys intends to make her his next conquest.
    eBookPenguin Publishing Group, 2010
  • In an alternate matriarchal 1900s Asia, a teenage girl struggles to overcome the trauma of war, a task that's made all the more difficult by her mysterious psychic link to an eldritch monster of tremendous power.
    Graphic Novel[United States] : Image Comics, 2019.
  • A tale set in an alternative version of late 19th-century Seattle finds orphaned Karen working in a high-quality bordello, where she confronts a powerful man who owns a dangerous mind-control machine.
    eBookTor Publishing Group, 2015
  • In an alternate 1875 England, seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny, aided by the boy he loves, must discover who is sabotaging the towers that control the flow of time before it is too late.
    eBookSky Pony, 2016
  • In a world where mechanical people built from clockwork parts are shunned, a young mechanic for illegal clockwork clients attempts to bring his brother back from the dead.
    eBookHarperCollins, 2015
  • Discovering superhuman powers when she is assaulted by a young lord, 16-year-old Finley of Victorian England is reluctantly taken in by a band of misfits who are subsequently targeted by a criminal mastermind.
    eBookHarlequin, 2012
  • The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare, and Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists. Meanwhile, at Transylvania Polygnostic University, a student named Agatha Clay seems to have nothing but bad luck.
    eBookNight Shade Books, 2011
  • The rise of mechanical animation, and its popularity at court, is threatening to end Andrea's scholarly pursuits of spellcraft and literature. In retaliation against the field that is ruining his life, Andrea begins to campaign against it.
    eBookEE Ottoman, 2018
  • The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

    The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

    Padua, Sydney
    A rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage build the Difference Engine and then use it to battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime.
    eBookKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015
  • When Marcus Stenhill, Viscount of Westwood, stumbles a pack of young bloods beating a man senseless, his honor demands he save him, but he’s taken aback to discover the man is the inventor responsible for the death of Marcus’s father.
    eBookDreamspinner Press, 2014
  • In an alternate 1864, the Constantine Affliction spreads throughout London, killing some of its victims and transforming others into the opposite sex.
    eBookNight Shade Books, 2012