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The Jupiter Pirates #3: The Rise of Earth Jason Fry · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Space ships, Pirates, Siblings, Action & Adventure with this book.
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Slave to Six Worlds Olivia M. Ravensworth · 2012 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Released at the end of 2012 by Pink Flamingo Publications http://www.pinkflamingo.com/brands/Olivia-Ravensworth.html , Slave to Six Worlds is a tale of the future as imagined from the Golden Age of science fiction of the 1930s—a colorful, bawdy, brawling time of atomic-powered rocketships, supremely intellectual but lustful Martians, and seductive green-skinned Venusian lesbians—in which buxom… Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction
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Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines Quartet) Philip Reeve · 2018 · ★ 5.0 Collects together the four books that make up the *Mortal Engines Quartet.* Namely: 1. Mortal Engines 2. Predator's Gold 3. Infernal Devices 4. A Darkling Plain Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction
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The Assassins of Altis Jack Campbell · 2015 Trapped within the dead city of Marandur, Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain must escape both merciless barbarians and the pitiless Imperial Legion. Beyond those dangers lie the mightiest and most unforgiving powers in the world of Dematr: the Great Guilds that rule the world with iron fists. Mari's Mechanics Guild and Alain's Mage Guild have always been enemies, but they are united in… Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction
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The Dragons of Dorcastle Jack Campbell · 2015 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Dematr is a world ruled by the diametrically opposed Mage and Mechanic Guilds. For centuries, the two Great Guilds have been bitter rivals. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind to stop the Storm. Mari is a brilliant young Mechanic, just out of the Guild Halls, where she has… Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction
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The Hidden Masters of Marandur Jack Campbell · 2015 Someone wants to kill Mari, a young steam mechanic in the guild that controls all technology. She has learned that her world of Dematr is headed for a catastrophe that will destroy civilization and that mages really can alter reality for short periods. Someone also wants to kill Alain, a young mage who has learned that mechanics are not frauds, as his guild teaches, and that mechanic Mari is… Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction
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Immortal war Justin Somper · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 513p · ≈ 17h · Moderate When the Pirate Federation and Nocturnals form an alliance to battle the renegade Vampirates, twins Connor and Grace Tempest each have important roles to play in the war--he as a pirate warrior and she as a powerful healer working with the war-wounded. Shares Pirates, Siblings, Brothers and sisters, Adventure
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The Machine - Le Temps des Promesses · 2025 · ★ 5.0 Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction with this book.
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The lost island of Tamarind Nadia Aguiar · 2008 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Three children. Alone on the ocean waves, after a fierce storm throws their parents from the Pamela Jane into the icy waters below. Maya, Simon and Penny now face a wild rescue adventure that will lead them to a truly magical place . . . Imagine an island with green mountains looming over pink sandy beaches and tide pools lit by the moon. An island with the darkest of secrets, where pirates lurk… Shares Pirates, Siblings, Brothers and sisters, Adventure
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Angels' bane Ryan Kunz · 2012 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Ten years ago, the rebel angels under Apollyon seized control of the Holy Galactic Imperium, slaying the emperor and his family and scattering the human defenders of the galaxy. While the human citizens of the Imperium chafe under the unholy rule of their conquerors, some dream of freedom. But what man can fight against the angels when an angel's mere presence immolates a human? When the… Shares Space ships, Science Fiction, Adventure
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Among the Barons Margaret Peterson Haddix · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken. Its a hell of a mystery. Shares Siblings, Brothers and sisters, Science Fiction
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The January Dancer Michael Flynn · 2008 A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled! Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, *The January Dancer* tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the… Shares Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
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The January Dancer Michael Flynn · 2008 Shares Action & Adventure, Science Fiction with this book.
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Champion of Mars Guy Haley · 2012 · ★ 3.7 · 447p · ≈ 14h · Moderate After Dr. Holland and his team discover an artifact deep in the caverns of Mars, profound consequences ripple throughout time, affecting Holland's present, the distant days of disgraced champion Yoechakanon Val Mora and the eras that bridge the eons between. Shares Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
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Saturn Ben Bova · 2003 · ★ 3.6 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Overview: Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: SATURN Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the… Shares Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
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The Book of the Banshee Anne Fine · 1991 · ★ 3.5 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Will Flowers doesn't understand what could have happened. His sister, Estelle, used to be really cool. She was quiet, responsible, and most times you'd never even know she was around(which was the cool part). But lately, Estelle has been acting totally weird - to everyone. All she does is get mad and yell. She yells at Mom. She yells at Dad. She even yells at little Muffy. But mostly she yells at… Shares Siblings, Family, Brothers and sisters
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Immortal IV Valjeanne Jeffers · 2012 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Rules were broken. Now the price must be paid. “The New World awoke to a roaring wind, light blazed from the mirror—swallowing the planet—a churning, savage vortex. Tundra's inhabitants cried out, as their flesh bled from their bones like wet clay. The world shuddered. And was still.” The Immortals broke the rules. As punishment, Karla and Joseph are transported to a steam powered realm.… Shares Steampunk, Science Fiction
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The Ghost Pirates William Hope Hodgson · 1909 · ★ 3.6 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "The old ship, the *Mortzestus*, is beset by mysterious phenomena - - shadowy figures emerging from the sea, men hurled from aloft by invisible hands and the vessel itself seemingly trapped in a world of mist. The horrors reach a climax when ghost pirates swarm aboard to sink the ship and only one man survives to tell the story." - - Description by Peter Haining, in "A Century of Ghost Novels… Shares Pirates, Adventure

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