Excerpts from Steampunk Novels

by jrrl on Oct 31, 2010 • 2:25 pm 9 Comments

Excerpts from steampunk novels available on the web. If you know of others, please let me know and I’ll add them here.

Tim Akers

The Horns of Ruin

Felix Gilman

The Half-Made World

Clay & Susan Griffith

The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire Book 1)

Mark Hodder

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

Mike Resnick

The Buntline Special

9 comments

Timothy Black says:

Jan 13, 2015

“Gearteeth” is a steampunk-horror novel set in the dying days of the Old West, which takes place after a virulent disease sweeps the nation and sends humanity scurrying to the skies aboard ramshackle flying cities. Published by Blysster Press, the first three chapters are available on my site at http://timothy-black.com/books-stories/gearteeth/

Alan says:

Dec 3, 2013

My new steampunk action/adventure novel has just been released. The first chapter of ‘The Lightning Bolts of Zeus’ is available at the Dark Oak Press website.

http://www.darkoakpress.com/zeus.html

Anna Woods says:

Apr 2, 2013

One of my favorite steampunk series in the Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. These books really got me into steampunk.

Joseph Robert Lewis says:

Oct 16, 2011

You can read the first chapter of THE BURNING SKY on the author’s blog:

http://josephrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/the-burning-sky-chapter-one/

Lizza Aiken says:

Aug 4, 2011

If you like this genre take a look at Joan Aiken’s “Wolves of Willoughby Chase” and the amazingly inventive series of books that followed it – all set in her own fantastic historical world – England in the reign of the Stuart kings who never were, where wolves coming through the newly built channel tunnel are terrorising the country, and attacking the trains racing across the snowy landscape….
http://www.joanaiken.com/pages/wolves_chronicals.html
or “The Cockatrice Boys” set in a terrifying future where monstrous Cockatrices have taken over, and a brave band of warriors set out in their special train to defeat them…
http://us.macmillan.com/thecockatriceboys

Lyra says:

Jul 28, 2011

the best steampunk books I have ever read for young adults is “the laws of magic” by michael pryor. The most amazing books, the plotline is fantastic and the characters incredible. I would absolutely recommend it

T.S. Vandelocht says:

May 31, 2011

@jrrl.

I’ll take a look at â€œThe Alchemy of Stoneâ€ and comment if I can.

I write and read sci-fi crime.

My interest turned to Steampunk after finding this site a while ago. I have published several (what I hope are Steampunk) stories on Kindle.
They don’t have a Steampunk category there.
I wonder how long it will take for them to wake up to this genre?

jrrl says:

Nov 29, 2010

The Alchemy of Stone is actually the book of the day today on steampunk.com. If you’d like to stop by and comment, that would be great.

Dizzy says:

Nov 27, 2010

Here’s a steampunk book for young adults I read a year or so ago. It’s called “The Alchemy of Stone” and it’s a romance with a steampunk twist. I found it to be quite good. I just thought you might find it worthy to be added here. Love the site!