Novedades

1907: A world of steam and steel, of brass and bravery. Spaceships ply the lanes above the Earth, running on coke furnaces and a prayer, while the atomic-powered Circumferential Rail runs the route between Paris, France, and Houston, Texas. Where there is cargo, and passengers of means, pirates soon follow, and this is how Jonathan Orbital, heir to the Circumferential Rail finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy surrounding a kidnapped French woman with a valuable secret.

Curator Dante Ramono must remove the priceless Farnese Cup from its hidden vault in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli to protect it from Allied bombing. A swift betrayal places the cup in Nazi hands, but not before it reveals its mystical powers. To recover the cup, Dante must join forces with cunning Theodora. Can he trust her, or will he be deceived once more?

Pippa Stanhope envisions a world teeming with her mechanical creations. So after a lifetime of hiding her love for inventing steam-powered gadgets, she's thrilled when her local university finally opens its doors to women. And the determined novice fearlessly sets out to pursue a higher education despite her family’s threat to disown her. Refusing to be intimidated by resentful male students and professors, she quickly befriends the three other ladies attending the school.

The world has changed. Nature withers and dies beneath the growing bane of machines and industry. Desperate to prevent their world from dying, citizens turn to science and sprawling cities of steam ruled by the Imperium. Kaimo de Morté has never known another life. He is an optometrist by trade but too poor to open an optical boutique. Forced to work in the mines, Kaimo has no idea how his life is about to change. A chance encounter with insurgents thrusts him into a battle for the very future of mankind.

Maybe coming back to life wasn’t the best idea. Brulle Cobb was a watcher until he was pushed too far and faked his death to escape. After Victoria Wyndham showed up on his doorstep, he’s drawn back into Astarian politics. The Watchers are in a race against the clock to stop a group of cultists from bringing their goddess back to the world and enslaving the free people of Astaria, and they need all hands on deck.

In part 3 of the trilogy, Alice wins the Vorpal Fist, a weapon whose special power is to rip out the hearts of those who love the person wearing it. Oh, and there's a Russian roulette tea party and a shadow under a rainbow guillotine too! But here's the thing: everything has gone weird. Is it still 1865 up in here? Because Wonderland seems to have suddenly gone scifi and I daresay, steampunk... This all occurs during a twisted life-sized board game Malice the Heartless and Alice the Blackhearted find themselves trapped in. Who will win? And will Alice finally become a stealer of hearts and ...

In eine Eiswelt transportiert? Könnte schlimmer sein... Oder? Ja, anscheinend kann es noch viel schlimmer werden... Als Jay Morgan und seine beste Freundin Molly O'Brian sich auf ein ganz neues Level von »falsch abgebogen« begeben, werden sie in eine Welt gesaugt, die die Arktis wie einen Strandurlaub aussehen lässt. Noch schlimmer? Nach einem Stoß auf den Kopf während ihrer Reise durch das Portal macht Molly ein ungeplantes Nickerchen von möglicherweise ewiger Dauer, und Jay hat keine andere Wahl, als sie durch eine frostige Wildnis zu tragen, die mit jedem Kilometer seltsamer wird.

Astaria: Magi ruled; Watcher protected. Quinn, Watcher of Astaria, has in his possession the most powerful magic in the land — the only problem is, he doesn’t know how to wield its power. Now that the Magi are being hunted by an unseen foe, who use ruthless predators that kill on command. Can Quinn figure out his magic and defeat this elusive enemy before it is too late? What he finds may well shift the course of Astaria and possibly the whole world. Do Quinn and his fellow Watchers have enough to stop a plot that will take them across Astaria and to faraway lands?

In a world where magic is returning after centuries of absence, Professor Adrienne Imlay has been able to balance her secret shamanic abilities with her academic career. But when she becomes entangled with Philidor Magnus, a charismatic inventor with a dark secret, she is drawn into a deadly plot involving demons, rival industrialists, and shadowy magical authorities. When rifts to other dimensions threaten to tear her city apart, she must confront her own abilities and their ethical quandaries. A special note for readers: this book contains a lot of different characters and a lot of ...

Set in the late 1940s WWII timeframe British soldiers fight Nazi "super troopers" in this short story. While more military SF it's more of a steampunk version of that popular genre and conveys not only the physical battle but that of the mind as well.