Resultados para "Hero" en Steampunk

Airship Lies is a Steampunk/Western anthology containing five stories from the Age of Wonder, ranging from the Old West to the wilderness beyond the Frontier to the very edge of space itself.

At the close of 1917, the Germans introduced a new type of gas, T-Leiche - "corpse gas" - a revolutionary weapon that changed the war. Instead of killing the living, T-Leiche resurrected the bodies of the dead. For those who survived the killing fields of France, the danger has only just begun. Veteran Michael "Madman" Burke and his company have just been assigned a daring new mission by the president himself: rescue the members of the British royal family.

1907: A world of steam and steel, of brass and bravery. Spaceships ply the lanes above the Earth, running on coke furnaces and a prayer, while the atomic-powered Circumferential Rail runs the route between Paris, France, and Houston, Texas. Where there is cargo, and passengers of means, pirates soon follow, and this is how Jonathan Orbital, heir to the Circumferential Rail finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy surrounding a kidnapped French woman with a valuable secret.

Tasked with auditing the accounts of the queen's ore mines, auditor Howard Forsyth encounters the notorious and feared administrator of the mines. Soon his life is threatened on an adventurous train ride with steam cars and a steam-powered flying object. Then, when he is suspected of murdering the former accountant, his secret lover, whom no one is supposed to know about, rushes to his aid. Will they both survive? What role does the missing general ledger play? What is the sinister invention for?

Meljean Brook launches a bold new steampunk series about a woman who strikes a provocative-and terrifying-bargain for freedom...

Since the loss of her father, Abigail Thatch's life has been in turmoil. Her social status is in shambles, her finances depleted, and she's on the verge of losing her beloved home. But everything changes when she meets the dashing flying machine captain Jasper Blackthorn. Not only does he introduce her to a world she thought only existed in myth and legend, he awakens sensual feelings deep within her.

It’s an uncertain time in the Fertile Plains. Sixty cycles have passed since Alönia won the Protectorate War, but time and conflict have eroded the security gained through that great struggle. As Alönia wades through internal squabbling, David rises above his tragic childhood and earns a place as an aide to a powerful politician.

Mit dem Auftrag die Buchhaltung der Erzminen der Königin zu prüfen, begegnet der Wirtschaftsprüfer Howard Forsyth dem berüchtigten und gefürchteten Verwalter der Minen. Schon bald wird sein Leben auf einer abenteuerlichen Zugfahrt mit Steam Cars und einem dampfgetriebenen Flugobjekt bedroht. So hatte er sich den Prüfauftrag von Lord Palmerston nicht vorgestellt. Als er dann noch unter Mordverdacht am früheren Buchhalter steht, eilt ihm seine heimliche Geliebte zu Hilfe, von der niemand wissen darf.