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The Bookman

Lavie Tidhar

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraLondon
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The Lazarus Machine

Paul Crilley

In an alternate 1899 London, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Tweed searches for his kidnapped father, uncovering both a horrific technological secret and a political conspiracy that could destroy the British Empire.

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraLondon
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The Return of the Discontinued Man

Mark Hodder · 367 pages

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraLondon
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Soulless

Gail Carriger · 300 pages

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeo

SteampunkVictorian EraAlternate HistoryLondon
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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · 444 pages

**Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker** Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs. Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship *Levithan*. Though fighting side

SteampunkAlternate HistoryUnderdogAdventure
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Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare · 489 pages

When Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother in Victorian England, something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark sisters, who are members of a secret organization called the Pandemonium club, Tessa soon learns that she has the power to transform into another person. The Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the club, will stop at nothing t

SteampunkRobots & AndroidsVictorian EraLondon
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The Doomsday Vault

Steven Harper

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraScience Fiction
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Infernal Devices

K.W. Jeter · 283 pages

Steampunk. Fresh and inventive, darkly humorous, and with wild characters who never take a backseat to the mechanical creations.

SteampunkRobots & AndroidsVictorian EraLondon
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The Affinity Bridge

George Mann · 416 pages

SteampunkRobots & AndroidsVictorian EraLondon
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The Janus Affair

Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine · 416 pages

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonAdventure
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The Girl with the Windup Heart

Kady Cross · 356 pages

In 1897, part-automaton Mila seeks an independent life in London's West End while Finley Jane plunges headlong into the Aether, hoping to outmaneuver the Machinist who has taken Griffin King captive.

SteampunkVictorian EraRobots & AndroidsLondon
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The Difference Engine

William Gibson, Bruce Sterling · 383 pages

1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraLondon
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Mothstorm

Philip Reeve

Art, his sister, and the rest of their family and friends are called once more to save the known universe. Interrupted during Christmas, the Mumbys discover a strange, unidentified black cloud that is slowly encroaching on the solar system. Victorian space-travel steampunk novel for children and young adults. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraAdventure
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Timekeeper

Tara Sim · 414 pages

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 and stop him or her before it is too late.

Alternate HistorySteampunkVictorian EraLondon
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The Warlord of the Air

Michael Moorcock

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The Falling Machine

Andrew P. Mayer · 285 pages

SteampunkRobots & AndroidsVictorian EraScience Fiction
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A Study in Silks

Emma Jane Holloway · 432 pages

SteampunkVictorian EraAlternate HistoryLondon
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The Hunchback Assignments

Arthur Slade

A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association, a spy agency behind Brittania's efforts to rule the empire. At 14, Modo is left on

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonSeries Starter
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Clementine

Cherie Priest · 208 pages

SteampunkAlternate HistoryAdventureScience Fiction
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Cogheart

Peter Bunzl · 327 pages

Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. With her friend Robert and Malkin, her mechanical fox, Lily is plunged into a menacing world where murder, mayhem and mystery await.

SteampunkRobots & AndroidsVictorian EraAdventure
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus

Alan Moore · 218 pages

"As the twentieth century approaches, there is a need for a new kind of champion - adventurers not bound by the chaste order that characterizes the stagnant Victorian Era. The enigmatic Campion Bond of British Intelligence has begun a recruiting mission, collecting a menagerie of individuals who can be of value to his superiors due to ... activities that have forced them beyond the pale. But as Al

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonAdventure
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A Lady of Resources

Shelley Adina · 284 pages

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonAdventure
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The Iron Duke

Meljean Brook · 384 pages

After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power-and fear-of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession. But when Mina uncovers the victim's identit

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