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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLeviathan
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
Her Sky Cowboy
Beth Ciotta · 342 pages
"Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well. Her heart belongs to the sky and the dirigibles of brass and steel that swoop over Victorian England. But when her father, an eccentric inventor, dies, the Darcy siblings are left with scrap metal; and not a penny to their names. Their only hope to save the family reputation and fortune is to embark on a quest to discover an invention of historical i
The Buntline Special
Mike Resnick · 321 pages
In a steampunk-style alternate-history fantasy tale, America's only hope for expansion past the Mississippi River in 1881 is a mission to Tombstone, Arizona, headed by Thomas Edison, whose protectors include Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the zombie Bat Masterson.
The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi
Mark Hodder · 477 pages
Following Queen Victoria's assassination in 1840, England's rulers had been receiving guidance from Abu El Yezdi, a dead mystic, but when high-ranking officials are kidnapped it is up to Sir Richard Burton to find the missing men and discover why Abu El Yezdi has suddenly become silent.
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl
David Barnett · 351 pages
"Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world, including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of C
Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders
Richard Ellis Preston Jr. · 446 pages
In a post-apocalyptic world of endless snow, Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their kidnapped leader, Balthazar Crankshaft, from the impenetrable City of the Founders. Steaming over a territory once known as Southern California--before it was devastated in the alien war--Buckle navigates his massive airship through s
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.
The Greyfriar
Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith · 303 pages
In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. Millions of humans were killed outright. Millions more died of disease and famine due to the havoc that followed. Within two years, once-great cities were shrouded by the gray empire of the vampire clans. Human refugees fled south to the tropics because vampires could not tolerate the constant heat there.
Aurorarama
Jean-Christophe Valtat · 429 pages
In the defense of steampunk comes a literary adventure unlike anything you've read before. 1908, New Venice: An ominous black airship hovers in the sky, and the city is hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt. The lead suspect is Brentford Orsini, one of the city's most prominent figures. As the net around him tightens, Orsini receives a mysterious message from a long-lost
Imprudence
Gail Carriger · 352 pages
Rue and the Spotted Custard shake the foundations of England's scientific community with revelations from their trip to India, a situation that is complicated by supernatural restlessness and her own family's growing fears.
The Rising
Ian Tregillis · 468 pages
"The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war. Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to
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
Everfair
Nisi Shawl · 383 pages
An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.
Starclimber
Kenneth Oppel · 395 pages
"Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?"A smile soared across my face."As high as I possibly can."Pilot-in-training Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries, expert on high-altitude life-forms, are invited aboard the Starclimber, a vessel that literally climbs its way into the cosmos. Before they even set foot aboard the ship, catastrophe strikes:Kate announces she is engaged — and not to Matt.Despite thi
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.