10 Best Steampunk Fantasy Books! Discover the World of Steampunk!
Get ready to crank the gears and rev up your imaginations because we're about to embark on a journey through the gritty and enchanting world of steampunk fantasy! A unique fusion of technology and aesthetic straight from the age of steam power, interlaced with elements of science fiction and fantasy that create extraordinary narratives overflowing with venture, exploration, and old-world charm.
Steampunk dares to reimagine history, rewriting the rules of technology and societal norms with an energetic spirit of rebellion and renaissance. It cultivates a world where airships dominate the skies, brass and copper mechanisms intertwine with Victorian-era fashion and race against the backdrop of a tumultuous world balanced delicately on the precipice of profound change!
Today, we bring you the absolute crème de la crème of this niche genre, the top 10 steampunk fantasy books that will seize your curiosity and transport you to jaw-dropping realms of cog-driven creativity. We're talking automatons with a heart of gold, villains shaded with gritty realism, heroines and heroes imbibed with purring resourcefulness - all crafted within intricate narratives where every gear, every spring, every rivet, has a purpose, a story. Are you ready to turn the page and dive into these captivating worlds? Let's get this adventure rolling!
『Perdido Street Station』
WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS • A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who “has reshaped modern fantasy” (The Washington Post) “[China Miéville’s] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in and around the magical city-state of New Crobuzon, have the refreshing effect of making Middle-earth seem plodding and flat.”—The New York Times The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies. Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released. The city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades. A reckoning is due at the city’s heart, in the vast edifice of brick and wood and steel under the vaults of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape.
Author | China Miéville |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Release Date | Jul 29, 2003 |
Source | Google Books |
『Leviathan』
The year is 1914 and Europe, armed with futuristic machines and biotechnology, is on the precipice of war. Prince Aleksandar is fleeing for his life, having discovered that his parents have been assassinated and he is now a target for the Clanker Powers, a group determined to take over the globe with their mechanical machinery. When he meets Deryn Sharpe, an orphan girl who has disguised herself as a boy so she can to join the British Air Service, they form an uneasy, but necessary, alliance. But the pair will soon discover that their emerging friendship will dramatically change their lives - and the entire course of the Great World War...
Author | Scott Westerfeld |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Release Date | May 27, 2010 |
Source | Google Books |
『Boneshaker』
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | Cherie Priest |
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Price | $12.99 |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Release Date | Sep 29, 2009 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Difference Engine』
The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel With new commentary by the authors 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with the future: Sybil Gerard—fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward “Leviathan” Mallory—explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant—diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine took the science fiction community by storm when it was first published twenty years ago. This special anniversary edition features an Introduction by Cory Doctorow and a collaborative essay from the authors looking back on their creation. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, this novel is poised to impress a whole new generation.
Author | William Gibson |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Spectra |
Release Date | Jul 26, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『Soulless』
Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society. Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? SOULLESS is the first book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. The Parasol Protectorate Soulless Changeless Blameless Heartless Timeless For more from Gail Carriger, check out: The Custard Protocol Prudence ImprudenceCompetence Finishing School (YA) Etiquette & Espionage Curtsies & Conspiracies Waistcoats & Weaponry Manners & Mutiny
Author | Gail Carriger |
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Price | $6.99 |
Publisher | Orbit |
Release Date | Oct 01, 2009 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Golden Compass』
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Author | Philip Pullman |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Release Date | Jan 01, 1997 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Alchemy of Stone』
"A novel of automated anarchy & clockwork lust."--Cover.
Author | Ekaterina Sedia |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | |
Release Date | Jan 01, 2008 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Clockwork Dagger』
Full of magic, mystery, and romance, an enchanting steampunk fantasy debut in the bestselling vein of Trudi Canavan and Gail Carriger. Orphaned as a child, Octavia Leander was doomed to grow up on the streets until Miss Percival saved her and taught her to become a medician. Gifted with incredible powers, the young healer is about to embark on her first mission, visiting suffering cities in the far reaches of the war-scarred realm. But the airship on which she is traveling is plagued by a series of strange and disturbing occurrences, including murder, and Octavia herself is threatened. Suddenly, she is caught up in a flurry of intrigue: the dashingly attractive steward may be one of the infamous Clockwork Daggers—the Queen’s spies and assassins—and her cabin-mate harbors disturbing secrets. But the danger is only beginning, for Octavia discovers that the deadly conspiracy aboard the airship may reach the crown itself.
Author | Beth Cato |
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Price | $10.99 |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Release Date | Sep 16, 2014 |
Source | Google Books |
『Mortal Engines』
London is a city on wheels - a future city like you've never known before. In the terrible aftermath of the Sixty Minute War, cities which survived the apocalypse became predators, chasing and feeding on smaller towns. Now London is hunting down its prey, getting ready to feed. But as the chase begins, Tom uncovers a secret - a secret full of deadly consequences. Soon he is plunged into a world of unkillable enemies, threatened by a weapon that will tear his life apart... Winner of the Nestle Gold Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award, this is a book to devour again and again.
Author | Philip Reeve |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Scholastic UK |
Release Date | Jun 07, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Peshawar Lancers』
In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world’s climate forever. And just as Earth’s temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together… In the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much of the world. The other major world leader is the Czar of All the Russias. Everyone predicts an eventual, deadly showdown. But no one can predict the role that one man, Captain Athelstane King, reluctant spy and hero, will play…
Author | S. M. Stirling |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Penguin |
Release Date | Jan 07, 2003 |
Source | Google Books |
Wrapping up, there you go, gear-heads and steam-fanatics! Those are your top-flight, no-holds-barred, crème de la crème of the steampunk fantasy world. Each chock-a-block with riveting plot twists, breathtaking worlds, cutting-edge steam-technology, and characters capable of firing up your imagination. As eclectic as they come, these works span high-flying adventures in rivet-festooned airships, stylish Victorian era ensembles, clockwork contraptions, and mind-boggling tinkerer's toys. Heads-up, though, once you jump into these epic tales, ain't no way you're emerging unscathed! Prepare to be enthralled by the amalgamation of the past, the future, the cog and the steam. Chances are, you might even whip up your own automaton or airship. Who knows, right? So, get cozy, strap on your goggles, crank up that imagination furnace, and delve into these magnificent worlds where steam powers dreams. Indeed, the world of steampunk beckons, and you're about to take a phenomenal ride. Dive right in, the narrative's fine!
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