Dystopian Steampunk

What do you do when pirates kidnap you for a ransom and a mad scientist injects you with a powerful and inevitably fatal concoction of aether? You get revenge. Matilda Katrine Myra is no one special, but her pirate abductors don’t know that. When they boldly kidnap her from an airship and sweep her away into the deadly wasteland of mutants and poisonous radiation, her life becomes a day to day battle to evade death. And she’s much closer to death than ever. A mad scientist has injected her with toxic condensed aether, the air of the gods, and now she’ll need frequent doses just to ...

CITY OF CHAINS: THE COMPLETE SAGA All the heroes are dead. In the monster-infested, blood-soaked city of Adelstrad, the weak are crushed, the wicked thrive, and even the dead aren’t allowed to rest. For centuries the Nameless Barons have ruled with iron fists and black alchemy, keeping the northern hordes and their dark gods at bay. But when a condemned executioner named Viktor takes up his axe, Adelstrad’s delicate balance of power begins to shatter. Once a criminal in service to tyranny, Viktor is offered one impossible chance at freedom — stop a plot that could destroy the city. ...

He’s a typical teen guy full of angst who craves an epic adventure to escape reality. She’s a steampunk cowgirl with a body that won’t quit—stuck inside an alternate Victorian technology timeline—whose only dream is to escape the fantasy and launch a heroic quest for the real world. Wyll's an everyday teenage guy fixing his car when he finds a door to a mysterious world and gets stuck on the other side. He sees a steam-powered airship and sets off to discover the strange steampunk city, but people angrily wave him away. A kind man takes him in, then secretly spirits him away in ...

It's always the knives you don't expect that carve the deepest wounds... Viktor was a fool to think that his witch problem would be dealt with so easily or that any straightforward solution would be effective in matters involving such insidious magic and such perfidious treachery. Now his challenges have multiplied. The dread howl of a white werewolf tears its way through the city and the beast seems to desire nothing more than the executioner's death. Adelstrad is teetering on the very edge and its citizens are actively looking for excuses to wipe one another out. The Baron is reacting in ...

Wishing for a cozy dystopia? Just add griffins! The Faerene Migration has begun, and with it, the world as she knows it ends for Amy Carlton. But she's no ordinary college student. Amy has skills. Magistrate Istvan is a griffin magician. He signed up for the Faerene Migration knowing that the price for saving Earth would be paid in hellfire and blood. He never expected to bond with a human familiar. No prepper could have anticipated the Faerene. The griffins, dragons, unicorns, werewolves, elves and ogres have forever changed the rules of survival. There's a new game in town, and Amy ...

Ancient secrets and modern conspiracies swirl around Amy and her griffin partner, Istvan. The inaugural South Eastern Magisterial Circuit is underway and as Amy accompanies Istvan on his magisterial duties, she faces hostility she hadn’t expected. The Faerene of Atlanta aren’t happy that a human has magic, even if Amy has sworn hers to Istvan. The wreckage of human civilisation is everywhere and the devastating apocalypse isn’t over yet, at least, not for humans. Amy’s loyalty is about to be tested.

"But this rough magic I here abjure..." William Shakespeare, The Tempest A new tempest sweeps the Earth as the truth of humanity's magic is revealed. Magic is far more complicated on Earth than the Faerene suspected. Now, they must work with humans to create new ways of surviving it. They'll have to listen to Amy. The thrilling conclusion to the post-apocalyptic fantasy series, The Faerene Apocalypse.

In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever. And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together.... In the 21st century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much of the world.

All the heroes are dead. Adelstrad's walls have withstood the northern barbarians and their dark gods for centuries, overseen by the tyrannical Nameless Barons. Not even the dead are safe from the corpse alchemists and their hunger for bodies in this land where life is cheap and only the strong survive. None dare ask where Viktor the Executioner came from or what sin got him sentenced to wear the black hood. Both the elites and the crime guilds stay clear of him and his menacing axe, but Viktor is no one’s slave. He merely bides his time until he can break his chains. Escape may come ...

Snow. Steam. Rebellion. Welcome to a city wrapped in snow, ruled by gears, and ready to rise. Set against the backdrop of a frost-covered Victorian metropolis, Gears of Winter is a spellbinding steampunk novella that reimagines the timeless tale of The Nutcracker with a thrilling twist. Clara, a bold and spirited young woman, finds herself swept into a rebellion against the tyrannical Drosselmeyer—a puppetmaster whose army of mechanical enforcers tightens its grip on the city with each ticking clock. But when she meets Nikolai, a mysterious half-mechanical soldier with secrets buried deep...

A Steampunk Dystopian Romance of Defiance, Love, and the Power of Emotion In a world where time is law and emotion is treason, one woman dares to break the clock. In the soot-stained city ruled by the Regulators of Time, every heartbeat is monitored and every feeling forbidden. Humanity has been reduced to precision and obedience—until Aveline Carter, a quiet factory worker hiding a dangerous secret, lets her heart slip. A single act of love becomes her undoing. Branded a threat, hunted by the Chronometric Guard, Aveline flees into the city’s shadowed underbelly—and straight into the ...

Dragon Racers Hovering in the Otherworld above a dystopian land called the Dregs is a place where humans, dwarves, and all the creatures of fae gather once a year to wager fortunes and celebrate the spirit of competition. The place is called Sky Island, for the dragons race around it. Those who risk life, limb, and wing to compete before the gods are granted a kingdom of their own if they win. It is no small thing. But to race at Sky Island is by invitation only. A dragon racer must first win a Chalice in the realm of men before the gods will even take notice. Dragon Racer 1 A world of ...

Time is running out. Cities are being engulfed in the Mist and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Theo believes he has found a way to stop mankind from Turning, but he doesn’t know how to alter Cass’s unique blood into a cure. Or if it can even be done. Meanwhile, Cass struggles with the idea that she is possibly the savior of the world—a world she is not sure is worth saving. From the Winchester manse to the steel city of Decadenn, there is something more chasing Cass than the House of Lords or the masked man who can walk in the Mist.

Dive into a captivating world where the clockwork marvels of steampunk meet the enchantment of classic fairy tales. "Cog & Wing Investigations: Gears of Enchantment" is an immersive adventure tailored for readers aged 12 and up, blending mystery, magic, and the power of partnership in a narrative that will resonate with young adult and adult audiences alike. In the bustling Clockwork City, where gears spin, airships grace the cobblestone skies, and enchantment is woven into the very fabric of life, readers will embark on a thrilling journey alongside our resourceful fairy detective, ...

Seductive like ACOTAR. Addictive like Twilight. Prophetic like The Handmaid's Tale. Delicate can be dangerous...In a future held captive by the past, one girl escapes an empire so she can tear it down. But will saving her world cost her the one person she loves most? The multi-award winning first book in L.S. Kilroy's epic trilogy is a darkly romantic steampunk romp that'll have you on the edge of your seat and wanting more. Welcome to Vitruvia. In a nightmarish future, one girl holds the key - to rebellion. Society has regressed to Victorian standards and patriarchal dominion. Women have ...

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Dragon Racers Hovering in the Otherworld above a dystopian land called the Dregs is a place where humans, dwarves, and all the creatures of fae gather once a year to wager fortunes and celebrate the spirit of competition. The place is called Sky Island, for the dragons race around it. Those who risk life, limb, and wing to compete before the gods are granted a kingdom of their own if they win. It is no small thing. But to race at Sky Island is by invitation only. A dragon racer must first win a Chalice in the realm of men before the gods will even take notice. This dystopian, gaslamp, fairy...

(This book collects issues 1-3 of the Dust of the Destiny Isles novellas, designed to be read together as a complete arc) He lost his body to dark magic. He will burn an island to get it back. Draper was once a man—until forbidden sorcery twisted him into something monstrous. Trapped in the body of a spider and haunted by what he’s become, he speaks little of his past and nothing of the price he’s willing to pay to be human again. Geir is the Isles’ most skilled smuggler of cursed artefacts—and deathly afraid of spiders. Coin is the only thing that keeps her working with Draper…...

War has come, within and without. Everything ends here. Betrayal has an acidic taste to it, and secrets aren't much more appetising. Viktor is no stranger to treachery, but this one came at the worst time. The siege has begun! The Nordlings have pushed the Adelstradians back to the walls of the city and General Lauter and his soldiers have been cut off, fighting for their lives to prevent the barbarians' naval force from beaching. Reality bends and shatters as things that were once men disembark black ships, bearing impossible weapons and screaming battle cries that make soldiers' eyes ...

Nash has got a pretty good thing going on. A hot girlfriend who always takes him back, money whenever he needs it, the respect—no matter how grudgingly given—of his peers, and a safe place to lay his head each night when he goes to sleep. For one of the animal people working the underground of the recently rebuilt Vegas, what more could he want?