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On the run! Union Engineer Braxton Wright thought his mission into the south was to extract the contents of a top secret Confederate train. Unbeknownst to him, he was a just a pawn in Alan Pinkerton’s plan to break his ace spy Hattie Lawton out of the Castle Thunder Prison. Now free, and in the company of Braxton’s childhood friend Laurie as well as a mysterious metal man, Braxton is itching to return north to his safe, quiet drafting board.

Kat Wallace is on a mission. After escaping tortuous enslavement, she sets her sights on ending the human trafficking that has flourished in 24th century Earth. Adopted by the leader of the pirate nation of Bosch, Kat Wallace is determined to prove herself as a member of the Bosch Pirate Force and use her skills to avenge her enslavement and free other thralls.

Herbert muss im Bodensee notlanden, die CIA hat sein defektes Raumschiff geortet. Nach der Landung wird der attraktive aber etwas schusselige Mittdreißiger von ihnen gehetzt. Er kann untertauchen, richtet sich ein Leben als Softwareentwickler ein, was ihm leicht fällt, da er sagenhafte...

Two new apprentices. One charming engineer. A potential battle with both sea serpents and evil sorcerers. When Sorcerer Adrien Danvers takes on a job that leads him into the slums of England, he never imagined he'd end up with not one but two apprentices. Despite his doubts about himself, he's...

1887. London, but not as you know it. The Industrial Revolution went further than anyone could have imagined, and the sprawling, chaotic metropolis of Even Greater London spreads across the entire southern half of England. The immense Tower casts electricity through the sky, powering the mind-boggling mechanisms of the city around it. The engineer-army of Isambard Kingdom Brunel swarms across the capital, building, demolishing, and rebuilding whatever they see fit. And at the heart of all this sits the country's first Private Investigation Agency.

Artificial Intelligences, Space Elevators, Time Travel, Robots, Steampunk, Fantasy, Horror, Magic and Romance. The stories in this book were published, podcasted, and broadcast by various e-zines internationally.

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?

The time has come for Levi to end the threat of the Director once and for all. With the Academy missing, a pregnant fiancé, and a wedding to plan, Levi doesn't have time to waste in sorting out his enemies. Now the Empire and everyone else had best get out of his way, because he's not stopping until he reaches his happy ending.

The Xortaags are back, and they’ve conquered the Akakie homeworld. If they have enough time to reverse-engineer all the advanced technology they can find on Kanoor, they’ll be undefeatable, and they won’t stop until they’ll have colonized the rest of the galaxy, starting with Earth. To make matters worse, an even more sinister threat is looming in the darkness. Unknown to our heroes, a time-travellng alien fleet is on its way to our neck of the galactic woods.

Almost three thousand years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory in a new world where magic and technology collide.

In the shadow of the cosmos, an unstoppable alien fleet advances, leaving a trail of conquered worlds in its wake. The Xortaag armada, an epitome of galactic might, now sets its sights on Earth. Yet hope flickers in the most unlikely of heroes: a maverick starfighter pilot with a penchant for movie quotes, a daredevil stuntwoman, a lethal super-assassin, and a cosmic spymaster. Their mission: to shield not just humanity, but billions of other intelligent lifeforms spanning the multiverse.

Шедевр альтернативной истории, краеугольный камень субкультуры стимпанка ("парового панка"), единственный пример полновесного сотворчества двух жанровых революционеров, которым тесны рамки любого жанра. "Машина различий" — это широкомасштабная, полифоничная панорама мира, в котором одновременно с промышленной революцией произошла революция информационная, так что компьютер явился на век раньше положенного. Мира, в котором Чарльз Бэббидж построил свою разностную машину, а власть у аристократии перехватили лорды-радикалы во главе с Байроном.

The Xortaag fleet outnumbers the humans’ five to one, and using their mind-control machine, they can use all the Earth’s military forces against their own kind. The Xortaag colony ships are only a few weeks away, and when they arrive, they'll wipe out the human race to have space and resources for their people. And as if all this wasn’t bad enough, General Planetary Genocide Maada has just laid a trap for the Earth fleet and decimated a large chunk of their forces. To make things worse, an even more sinister threat (yeah, more sinister than the Xortaags) is emerging 1500 years in the future.

Baron Sherazad hat mich so weit wie möglich von Eslant verbannt. Jetzt sitze ich mitten im Nirgendwo fest, an einem Ort voller Feinde, zusammen mit einer verrückten Mimic und einer abtrünnigen Elfe, die mir den Rücken freihalten. Da ist man dem ränkeschmiedenen Adel entkommen... nur um erneut in eine ganze Stadt von ihnen zu kommen! Die Herrscher dieses Ortes sind fest entschlossen, ihre Zivilisten schwach und unter Kontrolle zu halten. Mal schauen, welchen Preis Sie dafür zu zahlen haben.

Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, England, 1860: When Clara's ex-fiancé begins to spread rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, it's all she can do to protect them from his desperate schemes, society's prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then Clara's grandfather Drosselmeyer brings on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing.

Supernatural Secret Service agents Owen Sharps and Calvin Springfield meet on the train to their new assignment in St. Louis, and sparks fly between them. But it's 1897, and they need to be very careful—falling in love can be dangerous for men like them.

Anna-Marie and Ambrose have made a home and a new life for their ragtag family. No more scraping for food or patching over the patches time and again in their garments. All is bliss. Or it would be if not for the explosions in the upstairs ballroom and the newfound obligation they have as spies for Queen Victoria.

It’s 1915. The Great War has descended into horrific trench warfare with the great nations fighting over inches of European ground. In the Middle East, the war is between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire, allied to Germany. Caught in the middle of this Middle East war are two families of spies—the Bankrofts, who support British operations in Mesopotamia, and the O’Connell family, on the side of the German and Ottoman operations.

The Republic's black ops have failed to take over Rebirth and steal Alexandra's dungeon core for the last time. All pretenses are finally cast aside as the Republic's army is ordered to march on Rebirth and start a war the entire continent has been dreading for over a century. Alexandra and her allies prepare for the inevitable. Rebirth gathers foes of the Republic from all over the continent while Alexandra begins assembling her secret army, ready to take the fight to the surface and to the Republic itself. But as Alexandra prepares to crush the Republic, more sinister events are afoot.

Nichts ist so, wie es scheint...Nach dem Hackerangriff, bei dem Kai und sein gesamtes Team fast ums Leben gekommen wären, ist jeder bei Helltek nervös. Schlimmer noch, alle Beweise deuten darauf hin, dass der Saboteur ein Mitarbeiter des Unternehmens ist. Kai fürchtet nicht nur um seine Sicherheit sondern auch um die seiner Freunde. Der Verdacht, dass jemand, der ihm nahe steht, dafür verantwortlich sein könnte, ist beunruhigend. Und das ist nur eines von Kais Problemen.