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

[crich70]

So how is the steampunk bundle? Any good?

[pdarnold]

Originally Posted by Laurablue

There is a Steampunk Bundle at the Groupees site, minimum purchase is $2, with the option to donate some of the payment to charity. It is available for just 1 day and 16 hours more.
I pondered whether this was a legit deal to share here, since the books in the bundle are self-published, but I don't think that prohibition applies to this thread, and I also don't have any connection to the writers/artists or bundle site, so my post is not self-promotion. This bundle is a combination of games, music, ebooks and comics. The files are DRM free and the books are available as mobi, epub and pdf files. The comics are PDF files.

Awe DANG! I missed this. I've been out of town the past couple weeks and haven't had much chance to check in here. I would have loved buying this package. I already own the Railroad! series and thought they were quite fun. Thanks for listing this, even though I missed it. I can check out some of the music and other goodies online.

[Dr. Drib]

So who's reading what?

Anyone read the "The Chronicles of Light and Shadow" series, by Liesel Schwarz?

[crich70]

Has anyone seen any new good bargains in Steampunk this last month? Just wondering.

[BearMountainBooks]

I guess I should have posted the Frank Tuttle book that came out (I think I posted it in the sci/fi thread). All the Turns of Light is out, the second in his All the Paths series. These are fun reads.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ 99 cents through the month of December from Book View Café (DRM-free choice of ePub or Mobi available worldwide):

Steampunk Voyages: Around the World in Six Gears by Irene Radford (ISFDB), a collection of Exactly What It Says In The Title. These appear to be newly-written (the story titles don't match up to her ISFDB listing of published shorts, though that may be incomplete), but Radford is a long-time DAW author and I think I might have bought this already during a previous sale. If not, I'll be scooping it up.

This might possibly be available and price-matched in other stores that Book View Café distributes to (couponable @ Kobo), but the author makes the most money from a direct-buy sale, IIRC.

Steampunk Voyages brings the Romance of steam, the stretch of the imagination, the big, brassy, powerful, and sweaty way of looking at the world sideways in six stories of the Victorian age of wonder.

Author Irene Radford offers new and old stories that reach from a weapon of mass destruction that could change the outcome of the U.S. Civil War, the truth behind why the ballet Giselle disappeared for nearly fifty years, pirates in Indonesia questioning whether we should control technology or be controlled by it, to a glimpse of Princess Victoria coming of age as secret operatives try to protect her from madmen acting in the name of long dead Lord Byron.

Adding to the fun, Steampunk Voyages includes a sneak peek at an upcoming novel in the world of dirigibles, necromancy, a steam powered book catalog, and hints of romance.

[crich70]

Thanks ATDrake.

[Dr. Drib]

Here's a free book that looks 'Steampunkish," from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JB1DU9C/...=IKBTE8R0QHLNP

I just picked it up.

It looks very good.

Forgot to add the title:

HAWTHORNE: Chronicles of the Brass Hand: Mystirio Astronomiki

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ 99 cents from BookViewCafé as part of one of their monthly specials, I think, so probably expiring today (March 31st), in a DRM-free choice of ePub or Mobi available worldwide:

The Shadow Conspiracy edited by Phyllis Irene Radford (ISFDB) & Laura Anne Gilman (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a shared-world anthology of steampunk stories set in an alternate universe, featuring authors like Sarah Zettel (ISFDB, Wikipedia), Judith Tarr (ISFDB, Wikipedia), and more.

In the Year Without a Summer, a group of mad geniuses descended on Geneva. In an attempt to save the body and mind of George Gordon, Lord 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.

[crich70]

Thanks. Looks interesting.