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A warrior of the magic of the ancient kings doesn't just fight wars; he ends them. Fieran has fought the Mongavarian Empire from the northern seas of Kostaria to the skies over Escarland. Now he will take the fight to the very heart of Mongavaria to end this once and for all. When he's sent on a...

In a world where the magic Gifted oppress the Commonborn, a spirited inventor’s daughter must join forces with a stiff, new lieutenant to save the Republic of Steam. With a family legacy that invented steam power and founded the Republic, everyone thought Amelia Steam would accomplish the next impossible thing. Now everyone believes she burned down her family’s company, killed her parents, and obliterated her family name.

A magical machinist becomes a spy to unearth a dangerous plot that spans past, present, and future in the third installment of this isekai adventure. In the years since Liam was mysteriously transported to a new land to live as the noble son Percival Shadestone, he's learned many things: how to...

It’s 1888. While American audiences are in awe of seeing authentic Indians in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and in London, where locals are being terrorized by the serial killer, Jack the Ripper, the small kingdom of Vassalia is being threatened by warring factions. The threat comes from within the country as well as the military juggernaut that is its neighbor, Savalonia, from without. The only thing standing in their way is an expatriated Filipino, Edmund Agbayani. Once an ally of the Filipino reformer, Jose Rizal, he was a practicing medical doctor till his fiancée tried to kill him.

"Before there were robots, there was the Dynamo - and it was hungry." In the heart of a Victorian electric shed, amidst a deafening roar of iron and steam, sits the Big Dynamo. To the cruel engineer Holroyd, it is just a powerful tool of the modern world. But to his mistreated assistant...

Having escaped from the depths of the cloudsea, Rylan finds himself at last approaching the city he’s long dreamed of making a life in: mighty Cliffport. Of course, there’s still the matter of his unresolved debt hanging over his head, though perhaps the sender of that mysterious letter could be of some assistance... Many questions still surround Rylan’s birth, and the number has only grown since he learned of his ancient Hermean bloodline that grants him authority with Ethereon. Could the answers be found in The Knackered Hag?

Mit einem unerwarteten, vorübergehenden Teamzuwachs machen sich Matt, Liz und Aster auf den Weg in die sich ständig ausdehnende Grenzregion. Dort müssen sie sich der Herausforderung eines unerforschten Planeten mit all seinen verborgenen Tücken stellen.

A small-town hero. A numberless horde. No turning back. Beast hunter and local hero Keltin Moore joins a desperate campaign to save faraway Krendaria, a nation on the verge of revolution. A swarm of beasts threatens to destroy the country’s desperately needed crops, and an unprecedented team of hunters is assembled to cleanse the infested farmlands. But the grand adventure quickly becomes a desperate fight for survival as the horde of beasts seems endless and distrust among the hunters eats away at the campaign from within.

Writer on Demand TM Vol. 5: Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam includes four stories: "Dashed Hopes" (approximately 4,250 words) is a tale of invention, romance, and tragedy set in the coal fields of England.

Ella Pickering is drowning in debt. Once a Unity skymage trained to make aerial supply runs in the Great War with the Ranneas Empire, following a crash, she now uses a wheelchair and works gruelling shifts making magical weapons in the Unity workshops, thinking of better days. One night, Ella witnesses an experiment by engineer Jackan Grissom go awry. His device morphs into a crude rocket blasting skywards before falling into the war's spell-ravaged No Man's Land. But this inspires a dangerous dream: could such a device reach the moon—the forbidden home of the gods?

Sira always dreamed of becoming an airship pilot. She's gone against her family's wishes and suppressed her magical gift to train at the Academy. Top of her class, she's almost guaranteed to pass, until her final flight exam is interrupted and her life gets thrown off course. Stranded with James, the frustrating mage assigned to her exam, Sira is determined to get back to the open skies where she belongs.

The Night Devils rule the seas without mercy. For two centuries, they have held the Merithian Empire at bay, binding them to an ocean of blood. Yet, the unit faces disbandment for its growing power and brutality. And when the vice admiral mysteriously vanishes, order falls to the infamous Commander Grenyard - a sailor feared for his searing hatred and cruelty. Thrust into this storm is ten-year-old, Todd Witherow. Conscripted into his late brother’s squadron, Sabre, Todd must endure war and survive Grenyard’s wrath while concealing a secret deemed punishable by death.

THE NAMELESS. As a warden, Soren’s duty is to guard against the dead, but he was never trained to guard against his heart. Drawn into a web of Solarian politics, Soren finds himself at the center of a storm of his own making, unwilling to break free if it means losing the man he loves. But even the darkest secrets cannot remain hidden forever, and when lies come to light, the price he pays for his silence may very well be his undoing.

Kat Wallace has her hands full: three lively children, a floundering marriage to a diplomat who is barely ever home, a commission as an officer in the Bosch Pirate Force, and a driving desire to destroy her past enslaver. None of those things has kept her from her mission to eliminate human trafficking on New Earth.

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.

THE MARSHAL. Melvin Kaur is a nobleman, a magician, and a high-ranking cog in the Clockwork Brigade working out of Istal. His well-established spot in high society is a grand cover for the smuggling his family oversees. But when a handoff goes wrong, and Melvin is forced to flee through the night with his charges, he finds unexpected help from an endearing man in the unlikeliest of places.

Bowdoin and his crew have grown in both strength and reach. They have taken on all comers, gangs, corpo, and otherwise, and expanded their domain to include the entirety of their arcology. But they have not avoided entrapment. Ostensibly, Bowdoin is doing work for hire for the hacker corporation Inside Eye. The reality of it is bleaker than this. The chains may be pretty and invisible to the naked eye, but they are still there.

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.

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.

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.