18 books like The Somnambulist

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Lord Kelvin's machine James P. Blaylock · 1992 · ★ 3.5 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate World-renowned scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives and his faithful man-servant Hasbro return again to confront the diabolical hunchback Dr. Ignacio Narbondo in a new adventure involving no less than the salvation of the earth itself. The author's previous St. Ives novel, Homunculus, was honored with the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and this latest -- and entirely self-contained -- narrative is… Shares: Steampunk fiction, Steampunk

Presentations of the 2010 Upstate Steampunk Extravaganza and Meetup Gypsey Teague · 2011 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Steampunk fiction, Steampunk

Steaming into a Victorian future Julie Anne Taddeo · 2012 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Examines various manifestations of steampunk in order to better understand steampunk sub-culture & its effect on popular culture & wider society. Expands & extends existing scholarship on steampunk in order to explore many previously unconsidered questions about cultural creativity, social networking, fandom, appropriation, & creation of meaning. Shares: Steampunk fiction, Steampunk

The Greyfriar Clay Griffith · 2010 · ★ 3.8 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. Millions of humans were killed outright. Millions more died of disease and famine due to the havoc that followed. Within two years, once-great cities were shrouded by the gray empire of the vampire clans. Human refugees fled south to the tropics because vampires could not tolerate the constant heat… Shares: Steampunk fiction, Steampunk

The Yard Alex Grecian · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate As Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror in London comes to an end, a new era of depravity sets the stage for the first gripping mystery featuring the detectives of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad.“If Charles Dickens isn’t somewhere clapping his hands for this one, Wilkie Collins surely is.”—The New York Times Book Review Victorian London—a violent cesspool of squalid sin. The twelve detectives of… Shares: Detectives, London, History

The Difference Engine William Gibson · 1990 · ★ 3.4 · 446p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory… Shares: Steampunk fiction, Steampunk

The Iron Duke (Iron Seas # 1) Meljean Brook · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power-and fear-of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession. But when Mina uncovers the victim's… Shares: Steampunk fiction, Steampunk

Infernal devices K. W. Jeter · 1987 · ★ 3.5 · 282p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Steampunk. Fresh and inventive, darkly humorous, and with wild characters who never take a backseat to the mechanical creations. Shares: Steampunk, London

The stress of her regard Tim Powers · 1989 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom. Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey that crisscrosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengeful lover who haunts his… Shares: Steampunk fiction, History

Murder on Black Swan Lane Andrea Penrose · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The Earl of Wrexford possesses a brilliant scientific mind, but boredom and pride lead him to reckless behavior. He does not suffer fools gladly. So when pompous, pious Reverend Josiah Holworthy publicly condemns him for debauchery, Wrexford unsheathes his rapier-sharp wit and strikes back. As their war of words escalates, Londons most popular satirical cartoonist, A.J. Quill, skewers them both.… Shares: Crimes against, London, History

Boneshaker Cherie Priest · ★ 3.4 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry,… Shares: Steampunk fiction, Steampunk

Gone, Baby, Gone Dennis Lehane · 1998 · ★ 4.2 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Moderate PI Patrick Kenzie is hired to find a four-year-old girl, abducted while the mother was out drinking. The search takes Kenzie through Boston's underworld of drug dealers, kidnapers and pedophiles. Shares: Detectives, Crimes against

Heartless Gail Carriger · 2011 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate 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… Shares: Steampunk, London

London Edward Rutherfurd · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 829p · ≈ 27h · Moderate | image = Shares: London, History

In the Woods Tana French · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Moderate A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspenseAs dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing… Shares: Detectives, Crimes against

Lives of the Necromancers William Godwin · 1834 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Lives of the necromancers or an account of the most eminent persons in successive ages who have claimed for themselves or to whom has been imputed by others the exercise of magical powers (1834) was English journalist, political philosopher and novelist William Godwin's final book. The book concerns paranormal legends from western and middle eastern history. In 1835 it was reviewed by Edgar Allan… Shares: Magicians, History

Peril at End House Agatha Christie · 1932 · ★ 4.0 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo. Poirot quickly takes a particular interest in the young woman. Recently, she has narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents… Shares: Detectives, London

7th Heaven James Patterson & Maxine Paetro · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead.As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must… Shares: Rich people, Crimes against

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