Gunpowder Alchemy (The Gunpowder Chronicles book 1) by Jeannie Lin (book review).
During the first Opium War, China suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the British Royal Navy. The treaty
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The Tropic Of Serpents: A Memoir By Lady Trent by Marie Brennan (book review).
Nearly three years after her husband was killed in an expedition to Vystrana, Mrs Isabella Camherst is preparing for another
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Want to build a real airship? NASA wants to hear from you!
Airships aren’t just steampunk vehicles from a Stephen Hunt novel, or blimps that hover above sporting events advertising all-weather tyres. Researchers
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Gideon Smith And The Mechanical Girl by David Barnett (book review).
David Barnett’s novel, ‘Gideon Smith And The Mechanical Girl’ is a Victorian melodrama, a horror story and a tale of
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Tales Of The Great Detectives: Sherlock Holmes In The City Of The Saved edited by Philip Purser-Hallard (book review).
For all the mysteries in the world, one Sherlock Holmes isn’t enough, so why not make as many as possible?
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Dead Man’s Hand edited by John Joseph Adams
This is billed as an anthology of the ‘Weird West’. Westerns themselves have been out of favour for a very
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Roundtable Rival . . . it’s time for a steampunk hoedown throwdown.
Yee-haa, because musician Lindsey Stirling is revisiting the Wiki-wiki-wild-wild-West in this music video featuring the mother of all steampunk hoedown
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Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box by George Mann (book review).
I felt a little glow of warmth as I listened to the voice of Dr. John Watson in my head.
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Jack Cloudie (The Jackelian series book 5) by Stephen Hunt (book review).
It’s a great honour to fight for your country, especially to be a Jack Cloudie, a sailor in the heavens
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The Falling Machine (The Society Of Steam book One) by Andrew P. Mayer (book review).
A steampunk super-hero secret society. What’s not to like about that? The Paragons are such a group. Sarah Stanton is
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