18 books like The Machine - Le Temps des Promesses
The Dragons of Dorcastle
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…
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The Hidden Masters of Marandur
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 the…
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The Assassins of Altis
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 wanting…
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Slave to Six Worlds
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…
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The Emperor’s Edge
An enforcer wanted dead for crimes she didn’t commit...
An assassin wanted dead for crimes he did commit…
Normally, they would be enemies, but they both seek the same thing: exoneration.
Unfortunately, a nefarious underground organization is attempting to kill the one man who could grant it to them, the emperor. If they want to win their freedom, they’ll have to battle powerful wizards,…
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Immortal IV
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. Tehotep…
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The Dead Isle
The year is 1880, and Jack Baker is a student at Harvard University for Engineers. In this America, industry depends on "Creation" rather than machines, and engineers are train repairmen, not inventors like Jack. Even his Creationist friend Clare thinks Jack's genius is going to waste.
There is one man who knows how to put Jack to use, however: novelist and spy Ellis Graveworthy, who wants Jack…
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The Iron Thorn (The Iron Codex #1)
In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn.
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La mémoire des sylphes tome 1
Dans un monde où une paix fragile règne entre la Finkadie et l’Archipel, Mathilde nourrit le rêve de devenir musicienne. Mais son destin bascule lorsque le Probatio la juge apte à recevoir un sylphe, un être mystique conférant à son porteur des pouvoirs exceptionnels. Dès lors, la jeune fille est contrainte d’embrasser une carrière militaire et devient Filleule de l’Empire. Envoyée à Impera, au…
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Heart of Brass
Heart of Brass is a steampunk fantasy and the first book in The Antipodean Queen series.
Emmeline Muchamore is a well-bred young lady hiding explosive family secrets. She needs to marry well, and quickly, in order to keep her family respectable. But when her brass heart malfunctions, she makes a desperate choice to steal the parts she needs to repair it and survive. She is unable to explain her…
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Silver and Stone
A steampunk fantasy set in Tasmania.
Emmeline, Matilda, and Patrick are sworn to rescue Patrick's mother from the infamous Female Factory prison, but when a vengeful police officer tracks down their hideout, things get worse fast. Soon they're framed for a double murder and fighting a magical monster in the eerie and unfamiliar island of Tasmania. Patrick's mother hides crucial papers in a tin…
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's…
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Reborn as a Baron Lord
∞Bradley is reborn on a wonderous planet filled with quirky robots, awesome gizmos, unique augmentations, and the best part is, everything runs on steam obtained through daring adventures. ∞When you aim for the stars you're more likely to crash and burn. Bradley never aimed for the stars. He was content to meander through mediocrity. Until he died.On Gearnix he can be anything. The planet runs on…
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Age of Victoria
Victoria Blythe wanted adventure. She wanted to explore the world and escape from the strict etiquette of British nobility. With her father fighting in India, the governess assigned to raise her controlled every aspect of her life.
The financial downturn of a friend of the family would lead to her sister's longtime engagement turning into an immediate marriage.
Victoria's thirst for adventure…
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L’homme le plus doué du monde
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Heartless
Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault in the fourth book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series.
When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical…
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The Alchemy of Stone
Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattie discovers powerful and dangerous secrets -- secrets that can completely alter the balance of power in the city of Ayona. However, this doesn't sit well with Loharri, the…
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Tarnished Are the Stars
A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: an illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog -- donning the moniker Technician -- to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the Commissioner's tyrannical laws.
Nathaniel Fremont, the Commissioner's son, has never had to fear the law. Determined to earn his father's respect, Nathaniel sets out to capture the…
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