Ergebnis für "Simon" in Steampunk

“Easily one of my favorite books of the year. Creative, incisive, and elegantly crafted, this one will wow you even as it wrecks you—you’ll be holding your breath to the end.” —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six A bold sci-fi retelling of The Great Gatsby...

The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.

Get ready to follow dazzling young writer George Mann to a London unlike any you've ever seen and into an adventure you will never forget, in The Affinity Bridge. Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering...

To avoid his fate as a Breaker Boy—children forced to work the mines—Zephyr must find a way to earn enough coin to buy his freedom and escape the city of Crater. Yet there are only so many options afforded to a young boy with no family. Thievery is one.

En una Europa de principios del siglo XX, en el período de entreguerras, los caballeros del Gun Club estadounidense han conseguido llegar a la luna. Nuestra heroína, la aristócrana Irna Hohenstaufen, se costeará un viaje de su bolsillo para expoliar el satélite terrestre del oro que hay bajo su superficie. Sin embargo, lo que encontrará allí puede alterar el destino de la inminente guerra europea y del mundo entero. Una epopeya steampunk con sabor al mejor Verne.