In an age where fantastic inventions of steam and brass have elevated Britain and China into mighty empires, Alice Michaels faces a future of technological terrors... [Read more...]
Reading Diary #04: WebGenii's Reads
March 23, 2012 by WebGenii
I picked up Garth Nix's "Troubletwisters" at a Scholastic Book Fair. The book is co-written with Sean Williams. [Read more...]
Secrets of the Fire Sea
March 10, 2012 by Library Dragon
The isolated island of Jago is the only home Hannah Conquest has ever known. But her carefree existence comes to an abrupt halt when her guardian, Archbishop Alice Grey, is brutally murdered. [Read more...]
Hearts of Smoke and Steam
December 3, 2011 by Library Dragon
Sir Dennis Darby has been murdered, the Automaton has been destroyed, and Sarah Stanton has turned her back on a life of privilege and comfort to try and find her way in the unforgiving streets of New York. [Read more...]
All Men of Genius
September 17, 2011 by Library Dragon
Violet Adams wants to attend Illyria College, a widely renowned school for the most brilliant up-and-coming scientific minds, founded by the late Duke Illyria, the greatest scientist of the Victorian Age. [Read more...]
Ganymede
September 17, 2011 by Library Dragon
The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he’s happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money’s good, he doesn’t think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects. [Read more...]
Review: "Steampunk" edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
August 31, 2011 by WebGenii
I do enjoy a good short story anthology and Steampunk really fits the bill. It offers 14 terrific stories all in the Steampunk genre (although some of them are pretty loosely connected -- I'm looking at you Garth Nix!). And the quality of the stories are uniformly good. [Read more...]
The Falling Machine
June 1, 2011 by Library Dragon
In 1880 women aren't allowed to vote, much less dress up in a costume and fight crime...
But twenty-year-old socialite Sarah Stanton still dreams of becoming a hero. [Read more...]
Dreadnought
September 30, 2010 by Library Dragon
Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy’s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. [Read more...]
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
September 3, 2010 by Library Dragon
Burton & Swinburne by Mark Hodder London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton -- explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne -- unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade; for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin. They stand at […]
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