In many stories, magic is presented as being part of the natural world, and thus able to interact with it. And while that’s still true in Michelle D. Sonnier’s The Clockwork Chronicles series, what she adds to the mythos ...CONTINUE
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The folk tale “Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves” is perhaps the most famous of the One Thousand And One Nights stories. And like all classic folk tales, “Ali Baba” has a universal appeal, even when told in a ...CONTINUE
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In The Guns Above, the exciting first book in her ongoing Signal Airship series, writer Robyn Bennis not only brought some Master & Commander-esque sensibilities to the steampunk genre, but she did so with a masterful commander who ...CONTINUE
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Given that he has a hard sci-fi writer best known for his robot revolt novels Robopocalypse and Robogenesis, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Daniel H Wilson’s new novel has mechanical men rising up against their human overlords. But ...CONTINUE
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In these political times, it’s easy to read too much into things. It’s why, when quizzing writer Robyn Bennis about her debut novel — the steampunk adventure The Guns Above (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), which has the ...CONTINUE
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In speculative fiction, one of the “What If?” questions that gets asked the most is “What if [War X] went on longer than it really did?” But in his novel The Ratten Expedition (hardcover, paperback, digital), ...CONTINUE
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With his 1987’s novel Infernal Devices, writer K.W. Jeter presented a unique and (ultimately) influential work of steampunk fiction. Now — after twenty-five years and as many other books — he’s following it up with ...CONTINUE
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