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Chasing the Star Garden

Melanie Karsak · 314 pages

SteampunkAviationAlternate HistoryFemale Lead
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Skies of Fire

Zoe Archer · 224 pages

SteampunkAviationAlternate HistoryRomance
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The Clockwork Dagger

Beth Cato

Octavia Leander, who has preternatural healing skills, takes a ramshackle airship to her new post as a medician. An attack on her delightfully starchy roommate, Mrs. Stout, is followed in short order by an attempt on her own life. Aided by Mrs. Stout and Alonzo Garrett, a gallant steward who is much more than he appears, Octavia soon realizes that she is a pawn in the conflict between Caskentia an

SteampunkAviationRomanceFemale Lead
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A Conspiracy of Alchemists

Liesel Schwarz · 338 pages

SteampunkAviationRomanceFemale Lead
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Riveted

Meljean Brook

SteampunkAviationRomanceFemale Lead
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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

SteampunkAviationAlternate HistoryFemale Lead
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Clockwork Heart

Dru Pagliassotti · 312 pages

"A steampunkish romantic fantasy set in Ondinium, a city that beats to the ticking of a clockwork heart. Taya, a metal-winged courier, can travel freely across the city's sectors and mingle indiscriminately among its castes. A daring mid-air rescue leads to involvement with two scions of an upperclass family and entanglement in a web of terrorism, loyalty, murder, and secrets."

SteampunkAviationRomanceFemale Lead
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Ganymede

Cherie Priest · 350 pages

"The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he's happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money's good, he doesn't think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects. But becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly's first legal gig--a supply run for the Seattle Underground--will be paid for by sap money. New Orleans is not Cly's first pick for a s

SteampunkAviationAlternate HistoryFemale Lead
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Free-Wrench

Joseph R. Lallo · 152 pages

SteampunkAviationFemale LeadAdventure
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The Warlord of the Air

Michael Moorcock

SteampunkAviationAlternate HistoryAdventure
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Take Back the Skies

Lucy Saxon · 378 pages

To escape from a planned arranged marriage, teenaged Cat Hunter disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a smuggler's airship where she discovers a world of excitement and adventure. To escape from a planned arranged marriage, teenager Cat Hunter disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a smuggler's airship, where she discovers a world of excitement and adventure. The plot contains violen

SteampunkAviationFemale LeadSeries Starter
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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

SteampunkAviationFemale LeadRomance
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Prudence

Gail Carriger · 378 pages

Twenty-year-old Prudence "Rue" Akeldama and her friends journey in a gaudy dirigible to India in search of a superior type of tea for her adoptive father, a wealthy vampire, only to run headfirst into danger, intrigue, and local politics.

SteampunkAviationFemale LeadSeries Starter
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The Court of the Air

Stephen Hunt · 582 pages

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Steamed

Katie MacAlister · 342 pages

Computer technician Jack Fletcher is no hero, despite his unwelcome reputation as one. In fact, he's just been the victim of bizarre circumstances. Like now. His sister happens to disturb one of his nanoelectromechanical system experiments, and now they aren't where they're supposed to be. In fact, they're not sure where they are when they wake up to see a woman with the reddest hair Jack has ever

SteampunkAviationRomanceFemale Lead
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The Doomsday Vault

Steven Harper

SteampunkAlternate HistoryRomanceFemale Lead
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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

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The Guns Above

Robyn Bennis · 351 pages

They say it's not the fall that kills you. For Josette Dupre, the Corps' first female airship captain, it might just be a bullet in the back. On top of patrolling the front lines, she must also contend with a crew who doubts her expertise, a new airship that is an untested deathtrap, and the foppish aristocrat Lord Bernat, a gambler and shameless flirt with the military know-how of a thimble. Bern

SteampunkAviationFemale LeadSeries Starter
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Disenchanted & Co.

Lynn Viehl

SteampunkAlternate HistoryFemale LeadRomance
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Innocent Darkness

Suzanne Lazear

In 1901, on an alternate Earth, sixteen-year-old Noli rejoices when a mysterious man transports her from reform school to the Realm of Faerie, until Noli learns his sinister reason.

SteampunkAlternate HistoryFemale LeadRomance
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The Black Lung Captain

Chris Wooding

Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircraft in the sky. Even the simplest robberies seem to go wrong. It's getting so a man can't make a dishonest living any more.

SteampunkAviationAdventureSeries
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A Study in Silks

Emma Jane Holloway · 432 pages

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Rebel Mechanics

Shanna Swendson · 320 pages

A sixteen-year-old governess becomes a spy in this alternative U.S. history where the British control with magic and the colonists rebel by inventing.

SteampunkAlternate HistoryFemale LeadRomance
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The Unnaturalists

Tiffany Trent

SteampunkAlternate HistoryFemale LeadRomance
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