Clare Fields is an expatriate from a country that has no contact with the outside world. Ellis Graveworthy is a famous novelist and a spy. Purva de la Fitte is a pirate princess with a sensible soul. Join them in a steampunk adventure spanning three continents in search of the answer to the puzzle of Australia -- The Dead Isle.

    An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of ragged fighter craft, they run contraband, rob airships and generally make a nuisance of themselves. So a hot tip on a cargo freighter loaded with valuables seems like a great prospect for an easy heist and a fast buck. Until the heist goes wrong, and the freighter explodes. Suddenly Frey isn't just a nuisance anymore - he's public enemy number one, with the Coalition Navy on his tail and contractors hired to take him down. But Frey knows something they don't. That freighter was rigged to blow, and Frey has been framed to take the fall. If he wants to prove it, he's going to have to catch the real culprit. He must face liars and lovers, dogfights and gunfights, Dukes and daemons. It's going to take all his criminal talents to prove he's not the criminal they think he is ...

    history. Designed by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of “preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations,” Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia. Campion and his robot also circled the planet with the U.S. Navy, trekked to the South Pole, made silent movies, and hobnobbed with the likes of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla. You say you’ve never heard of Boilerplate before? That’s because this book is the fanciful creation of a husbandand-wife team who have richly imagined these characters and inserted them into accurate retellings of history. This full-color chronicle is profusely illustrated with graphics mimicking period style, including photos, paintings, posters, cartoons, maps, and even stereoscope cards. Part Jules Verne and part Zelig, it’s a great volume for a broad range of fans of science fiction, history, and robots.

    Issue #1 contains 10 stories, each running between 4,300 to 11,000 words, for an unbelievable price. Authors contributing to issue #1 include Jay Lake, Catherynne M. Valente, SatyrPhil Brucato and G.D. Falksen. The cover art was painted by popular artist Melita "missmonster" Curphy.Tales Included in Issue #1:1. The Mask of Tezcatlipoca by G D Falksen2. Benedice Te by Jay Lake3. Stormada: Red Blossoms for the Queen by Phil Brucato4. The Anachronist’s Cookbook by Catherynne M. Valente5. A Grain of Sand by Mark Rossmore6. Lowlands Low by J Flesher7. The Reanimation Emporium by Brian Rappatta8. Project Möbius-5 by K. E. Kendall9. The Man and the Robot by Noel Black10. Tempus Fugit by Jennifer WilsonCover by missmonster

    Issue 4 contains 10 stories, most running between 4,300 to 11,000 words, for an unbelievable price.Tales Included in Issue 4:1. Convergence Culture, Pt. 2 by C.B. Harvey2. The Brass Pedestal by Natania Barron3. The Gods of War by Arkwright4. Miluth by Alison Boyd5. Stormada, Pt. 3 by SatyrPhil Brucato6. An Unfortunate Engagement, Pt. 6 by G. D. Falksen7. Sideways by Andrew Singleton8. The Choice for Cibyl by David Soyka9. The Steam Mapper by Clark Sumner Edwards10. The Juggernaut by Rajan KhannaCover art by the one and only Molly "Porkshanks" Friedrich!!

    Dark Skies and Cruel Seas by Arkwright2. The Unfortunate Case of the Stabbed-Up Elf by August Wahnsinger3. Convergence Culture by C.B. Harvey4. Hunting the Future Pt. 2 of 2 by Mark Rossmore5. One Million Monkeys, Ltd. by George S. Walker6. Letters Between Young Ladies... Pt.2 by Jillian Venters7. On the Surface of Venus by Michael Stutz8. The Mask of Tezcatlipoca, Pt.2 by G. D. Falksen9. The Revolutionary by John Leavitt10. The Shew Stone by C.G. LeslieCover art by the incredible Chet Phillips!

    Doctor Grordbort Presents: Victory - Scientific Adventure Violence for Young Men and Literate Women is the year's foremost journal of progressive armaments and weaponry! Behold the latest line of defense captured in action! Filled to the brim with firsthand tales of exploration and progress from the great heroes of our time, picture strips of unimaginable escapades on the frontier, never-seen-before portraits of dazzling damsels and monstrous villains, and laudable accounts of man and robot pitted against our greatest enemy (the uncivilized world), Victory is an onslaught of action-packed scientific adventure in full-spectrum color - containing facts that every boy and literate girl should know.

    Green Smoke by David Wellington2. Speaker for the Mayans by Brenda Cooper3. The Flight of the Swallow by Arkwright4. Stormada Chapter II: Fresh Tears For Ancient Sins by SatyrPhil Brucato5. An Unfortunate Engagement: Part Five by G. D. Falksen 6. Letters Between Young Ladies Of Fashionable Society, And The Alarming Events That Unfold Within by Jillian Venters7. The Rain-Maker by Phillip Challis8. Immum Coeli by Angie Montmartre9. Hunting the Future Part 1 (of 2) by Mark Rossmore10. The Freak From The Past by Lawrence R. Dagstine Cover art by the incredible Paul Sizer!

    Efforts to shape a more authentic, less austere present by creating an idealized version of the past have begun to appear in commercial and residential design throughout the country and abroad. Dark Nostalgia presents twenty-six projects that exemplify the smooth incorporation of evocative historic detail into current interiors. Public spaces, including New York’s famous Royalton Hotel lobby renovation, the Clift Hotel bar in San Francisco, and Alain Ducasse’s newest restaurant, Adour, as well as private residences and smaller, intimate restaurants and clubs by cutting-edge designers, including AvroKO, David Rockwell, Roman & Williams, Julian Schnabel, Philippe Starck, and Adam Tihany, demonstrate the many successful ways this trend towards a dark nostalgia has been incorporated in recent designs.

    D. Falksens incredible adventure serial titled, "An Unfortunate Engagement."G. D. Falksen's "An Unfortunate Engagement" is a steampunk adventure tale filled with action, excitement, thrills, chills, and of course mad science, set against the backdrop of the Edwardian era. Join Alex, Bruno and Francis as they travel across Europe braving countless dangers and mishaps in search of advanced airship plans stolen by mysterious parties motivated by a terrible secret goal. Watch as they do battle with ruffians, spies, Bavarians, Russians and even the dastardly French in their quest to right a terrible wrong and make the world safe for Britain. You won't want to miss a moment of the action as each step draws them closer to the heart of a terrible malevolent conspiracy.Enjoy the first four installments of "An Unfortunate Engagement" for free. Meet narrator Alex and friends Bruno and Francis as life on a pleasant English country estate is forever changed by a single act of violent sabotage. See them travel into the wilds of Darkest Europe, following the breadcrumbs that lead them ever closer to a truth they will soon wish they had never uncovered.If you enjoy this free edition of "Steampunk Tales" please check out our regular editions which typically contain 10 storied that run at least 4,000 words, all for less than the cost of a good cup of coffee. "Steampunk Tales" delivers first run, original pulp fiction from an A+ list of award winning writers.Part 5 of "An Unfortunate Engagement" will appear in issue #2 of "Steampunk Tales".

    In an attempt to save the body and mind of George Byron, they performed a dreadful and forbidden experiment that forever changed history—and tore their own lives apart.Years later, Byron’s daughter Ada has inherited her father’s genius. With Charles Babbage, inventor of the analytical engine, she invents the “automatic sciences,” allowing the creation of machines that mimic human action, and even human thought. Once again, history has changed. Mechanical spiders perform menial tasks. Intelligent locomotives keep their own time schedules. Massive dirigibles and flying automata have flung the Empire—and piracy—into the sky itself.But even a golden age casts a long shadow, and silent forces are moving in the darkness. Whispers of a conspiracy to destroy the Empire are beginning to surface. The fate of the Geneva experiment and the mad geniuses that created it remains unknown.And the fate of the world itself rests in the hands of Ada Lovelace.In The Shadow Conspiracy, Book View Café’s lineup of bestselling, award-winning authors combines forces to create an unforgettable shared world of steam-powered science, fantastic magic, and dark conspiracy.

    Only a drug-addicted detective and a young man with a gift for mathematics have the means to solve an enigmatic murder--a murder that may be the key to saving Trowth from certain destruction.A new edition of this book is available! Sure, it's a dollar more, but it also includes three short stories--check out The Translated Man and Other Stories.

    Arcadia will need to enlist the help of a reformed mad scientist, a stern suffragette, and a persnickety pigeon to unravel the mysterious past of the Steamwork Consortium - and stop the cabal of sinister mathematicians who would use that past to destroy all of Aberwick. Arcadia Snips and the Steamwork Consortium is both a cautionary tale against reckless mathematics and an accurate historical account all rolled up into one. In fact, the story is so accurate that you might consider it more of a history lecture than an illustrated novel.

    Well, as normal as the motherless daughter of the town blacksmith could be. She didn't wear dresses, grow her hair long, or giggle about boys like the other girls of Alice's Vineyard. The other girls didn't get into fist fights, help out in the smithy, or play with mechanical toy dogs and dragons. But still, Britt thought she was pretty normal, all things considered. Until she discovered that her Da was no normal blacksmith, either. Until she discovered the giant suit of steam-driven armor he kept hidden in the back room. And there was that mysterious marking on her back, the marking that got the attention of a stranger who came to town one day. The stranger who returned with soldiers, and turned Britt's life into anything but normal. Now Britt is on the run. Alone in the giant suit of armor, she must escape her pursuers, fight off her enemies, and make her way through the wider world beyond the peaceful valley that's been all she has ever known.

    Limited to 850 individually numbered copies, this book is a full-color, 9"x12", 48-page hardcover art book featuring contributions from artists at the 2009 Emerald City Comicon.Illustrated boards featuring the art of 46 illustrators.Cover by Frank Cho (colors by Nathan Fairbairn).Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.