Well known authors H.G. Wells and Jules Verne can be counted as the godfathers of Steampunk. Over the past decade, the science fiction sub-genre of Steampunk has become mainstream and is gathering quite a fantastical followin...
See larger image The Buntline Special (A Weird West Tale) (Kindle Edition) By (author): Mike Resnick Welcome to a West like you’ve never seen before, where electric lights shine down on the streets of Tombstone, while hor...
Readers have been fascinated by the survival of the human race for centuries. Did you know that Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man in 1826? Sure, it wasn’t truly accepted and appreciated until the 1900s, but imaginations of ...
Whether up in an airplane, a hot air balloon, a blimp, or a jet, there’s something remarkable about the feeling of flying. Just as some novels are themed towards people who love all things nautical, there is a plethora of title...
While casual talk of steampunk and deathmages may make some readers’ eyes glaze over, this witty trailer indicates that Her Ladyship’s Curse, the first book in best-selling author Lynn Viehl’s new Disenchanted & Co. is like...
An Illustrated Panel is Worth a Thousand Words Everyone loves books with pictures from young to old. With the rise in popularity of graphic novels, many designers are taking stories with tried and true plot lines and adding the...
In Nick Harkaway’s novel Angelmaker, lovable antihero Joe Spork is the grandson of a clockmaker and son of a mobster criminal – and in this unlikely caper he ends up taking after them both. His quiet life as a restorer of...
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger is the first novel in the Finishing School steampunk series, and it is Carriger’s first novel for young adults. Summary Sophronia Temminnick often finds herself sneaking around dum...