"Dirigible on my Mind": Steampunk Deals/Freebies + Discussion

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

However, this may not be the one that has the word "Adventures" at the end, as additional information now shows.

In other words, this may not be the newer one.

But still, that's a great price at 40% off with that coupon, if one wants that title. I'm thinking about buying it!

Another one over at Kobo that the coupon works for is Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories. It usually costs $9.39 but is only $5.63 with the coupon.
Click It's also at Amazon for $9.35.click

[Dr. Drib]

Thanks, Crich, I'll check that one out.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Thanks, Crich, I'll check that one out.

You're welcome Dr. Drib. They also have a free preview story from that book over at Amazon. Clockwork Fagin by Cory DOCTOROW.
AmazonUS It's the 3rd story in the book.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by crich70

You're welcome Dr. Drib. They also have a free preview story from that book over at Amazon. Clockwork Fagin by Cory DOCTOROW.
AmazonUS It's the 3rd story in the book.

I followed your link and picked it up!

Thank you!

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I followed your link and picked it up!

Thank you!

You're welcome. I hope you enjoy the story. Mr. Doctorow spins a good yarn.

[crich70]

Magnificent Devices: Books 1-4 Quartet

kobo It's $5.99 at kobo with the coupon, otherwise it's $9.99 for the book.

This four-book set contains the “Claire Quartet”—Lady of Devices, Her Own Devices, Magnificent Devices, and Brilliant Devices, an edition of over 250,000 words.

London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin’s son is Prime Minister. And steam is the power that runs the world.

At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St. Ives, was expected to do nothing more than pour an elegant cup of tea, sew a fine seam, and catch a rich husband. Unfortunately, Claire’s talents lie not in the ballroom, but in the chemistry lab, where things have a regrettable habit of blowing up. When her father gambles the estate on the combustion engine and loses, Claire finds herself down and out on the mean streets of London. But being a young woman of resources and intellect, she turns fortune on its head …

A South Bank gang—Snouts, Tigg, Jake, 10-year-old twin girls called the Mopsies, Weepin’ Willie, and Rosie the chicken—soon becomes Claire’s flock. But concealing her secret life becomes increasingly difficult, particularly when a powerful lord proposes and she and her friends are forced to flee on an airship to the American Territories. Will she achieve her goal of a university degree? Will her loyalty to her friends be her undoing when it jeopardizes the plans of powerful men who desire money more than honor? And just how many funerals will her unfortunate mother be forced to arrange?

[Dr. Drib]

Thanks to Crich70, I've become very interested in steampunk, so please park all your dirigibles in his garage.

I just found a free magazine, located here:

http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/downloads/

where some issues can be downloaded - but only in PDF.

I know nothing about this magazine, but decided to download them and to check it out.

If anyone else has any free bargains/deals, post here to help us out.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Thanks to Crich70, I've become very interested in steampunk, so please park all your dirigibles in his garage.

I just found a free magazine, located here:

http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/downloads/

where some issues can be downloaded - but only in PDF.

I know nothing about this magazine, but decided to download them and to check it out.

If anyone else has any free bargains/deals, post here to help us out.

Looks interesting Dr. Drib. Thanks for the link.

[tubemonkey]

There was a steampunk episode of Dr Who that I liked -- The Next Doctor -- free on Netflix

[crich70]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

There was a steampunk episode of Dr Who that I liked -- The Next Doctor -- free on Netflix

The Tardis itself is Steampunk if you think about it. Part of the instrumentation includes an air pump, telephone and computer monitor (or netbook). And there was the one episode where clockwork robots were trying to repair a damaged spaceship. Not sure if it's the same episode you mentioned or not.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by crich70

The Tardis itself is Steampunk if you think about it. Part of the instrumentation includes an air pump, telephone and computer monitor (or netbook). And there was the one episode where clockwork robots were trying to repair a damaged spaceship. Not sure if it's the same episode you mentioned or not.

Dr Who does have elements of steampunk in it.

[ApK]

Warehouse 13, also on Netflix, has a lot of steampunk tech, and, being contemporary, the characters occasionally refer to it as such

[crich70]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Dr Who does have elements of steampunk in it.

Yep. The Tardis itself could be said to be Steampunk as it is in the form of an old fashioned police box. I've lost track of how many gadgets the Dr. has built over the yrs for this or that adventure. I think that's part of what has kept his adventures coming for so long too.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Thanks to Crich70, I've become very interested in steampunk, so please park all your dirigibles in his garage.

I just found a free magazine, located here:

http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/downloads/

where some issues can be downloaded - but only in PDF.

I know nothing about this magazine, but decided to download them and to check it out.

If anyone else has any free bargains/deals, post here to help us out.

Amazon does have some books about writing Steampunk. Beth Daniels has 2 or 3 books on the topic.

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

If anyone else has any free bargains/deals, post here to help us out.

I don't know if you bothered to pick them up back when I was doing all those KDP freebie posts, but they frequently featured offerings from Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris, who write the apparently reasonably-popular Ace-published Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series, for which you can see a fairly comprehensive official website with a character guide and lots of blurbed praise and subgenre awards listings.

If you happened to skip the tie-in story collections they were giving away, there's still two freebie shorts by the co-authors available. Only one of them is a steampunk, but the other is a zombie tale which should give you a taste of their style.

Linkage for: Silver Linings (a Ministry mystery set in Egypt, according to the tags), Daddy's Little Girl (apocalyptic zombie short), free to all @ Smashwords

And quite probably someone might be able to do the Kindle-lending thing so you could try any of the former freebies you missed out on if it turns out you're interested in reading more in that universe.

Disclaimer: I have not read these particular books, or for that matter, anything from the authors yet (and if I did, that Shakespearean elf fantasy would be the one I tried first). But people do seem to like them a lot.

More personal recommendation, since IIRC you love zombies as well as wanting to try out steampunk: Cherie Priest's (Wikipedia, ISFDB) imaginative and enjoyable Clockwork Century series, which combines them both in a western setting and keeps getting awards.

(I read and quite liked the 1st novel in a Hugo Voter Packet and ended up buying it via a Humble Bundle later, so if you got HB's eBook Bundle #2 you might already own it; and I also individually purchased a novella when Weightless Books was having a sale. If you're morbidly curious, here's my vintage non-spoiler review of the 2nd novel in the What Are You Reading? thread in the RR forum a few years ago.)

Not cheap, considering they're out from Tor, but there are tie-in novellas which are out from Subterranean Press and therefore couponable via Kobo, making the entire series available DRM-free.