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They're the chosen - Winchester, Remington, and Colt - brothers trained to hunt down supernatural beings using the latest steam-powered gadgetry. It's a hard legacy to shoulder, and it's about to get a lot more dangerous…A devil of a job. Colt Jackson has gotten his name on many a wanted poster with success in the family business: hunting supernaturals across the frontier. Lately, though, there's a sulfur stink in the wind and the Darkin population is exploding. A rift in the worlds is appearing.

Taya soars over Ondinium on metal wings. She is an icarus - a courier privileged to travel freely across the city’s sectors and mingle indiscriminately among its castes. But even she can’t outfly the web of terrorism, loyalty, murder, and intrigue that snares her after a daring mid-air rescue.

Darius vaporized the Cygnian home world to end the war before it began. It didn’t work. Little does he know, he's been played for a sucker from the start. Terrible as the Cygnians are, there is a more ruthless enemy manipulating the Union to tear itself apart in a bloody war between the Revenants and the Cygnians. Darius is surging up the ranks in the Revenant fleet, winning victory after victory, but they're all hollow with his daughter, Cassandra, frozen in cryo and no way to safely wake her.

Die Ausgrabung beim Tempel der Zeit nähert sich ihrem Ende - doch dann wird Kriss' Freund und Mentor Alrik von Unbekannten verschleppt. Kriss und Lian setzen den Entführern augenblicklich nach. Es wird eine Reise voller Zweifel und tödlicher Gefahren. Sie stellen sich ælonischen Fallen und heimtückischen Rätseln, kämpfen gegen die legendären Windgeister und werden vom Gott einer untergegangenen Kultur gejagt. Ihr Weg führt sie quer durch die Welt in die sagenumwobenen Nebelreiche - ein Land des Zwielichts, in dem unzählige Abenteurer vor ihnen den Tod gefunden haben.

Fünfhundert Jahre sind vergangen, seit der grausamste Krieg aller Zeiten die Welt in Chaos und Zerstörung gestürzt hat - ein Krieg, ausgefochten mit schrecklichen, magischen Waffen. Der Weltenbrand. Nur dem Erlöser Dalan war es zu verdanken, dass die Völker der Menschen, Elfen und Orks der völligen Vernichtung entgingen. Doch heute ist Dalan nur eine Erinnerung - genau wie seine Letzte Prophezeiung, die besagt, dass einst ein zweiter Weltenbrand wie ein schwarzes Feuer über die freien Königreiche hinwegfegen wird. Und diese Zeit ist entsetzlich nahe.

Seit der Jahrhundertwende steigt grüner Nebel über den Flüssen auf. Æther ist für die Industrie ein Segen, für die Menschen ein Fluch. Luftschiffe erobern den Himmel, Monster bevölkern die Auen. Wir schreiben das Jahr 1910: Im mondänen Baden-Baden scheint die Welt noch in Ordnung. Doch während die Kurgäste aus aller Welt durch die Alleen und den Kurpark flanieren, sterben junge Frauen an einer mysteriösen Vergiftung. Das Fräulein Annabelle Rosenherz versucht die Ursache herauszufinden...

Baden Baden im Jahre 1912. Der grüne Aether verändert die ganze Welt. Um die Einflüsse auf den Menschen besser verstehen und erforschen zu können, wird das Amt für Aetherangelegenheiten gegründet. Annabelle Rosenherz und ihr Verlobter Paul Falkenberg unterstützen die Arbeit des Amtes tatkräftig, auch wenn Annabelle noch unter den Auswirkungen ihres letzten Abenteuers und ihrer eigenen Veränderung leidet. Als der Großindustrielle und Aetherbaron Rudolf Bader Neuigkeiten zum Verschwinden ihres Vaters in Aussicht stellt, reist Annabelle sofort zu ihm, um dort ein paar Tage zu verbringen.

When war breaks out in Europe - modern, aerial war whose tactics include displacing entire populations - British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named Theodore Savage, an educated and idle civil servant, must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain... one where science and technology swiftly come to be regarded with superstitious awe and terror.

"Mortal Engines - Krieg der Städte" ist der Auftaktband zu Philip Reeves monumentaler Fantasyserie voller Luftschiffe und Piraten, Kopfgeldjäger und Aeronauten - und fahrender Städte. Niemand hatte mit einem Attentat gerechnet. Als das Mädchen mit dem Tuch vor dem Gesicht ein Messer zückt, um den Obersten Historiker Londons, Thaddeus Valentine, umzubringen, kann ihm der junge Gehilfe Tom in letzter Sekunde das Leben retten. Er verfolgt das Mädchen, das jedoch durch einen Entsorgungsschacht in die Außenlande entkommt.

A mission to a foreign land has left Captain Trip Yert with a responsibility he never anticipated: watching over two dozen magical stasis chambers containing half-dragon young, including eight that are half-human. As bewildering as he finds it, all of them are related to him. He’s vowed to ensure they make it safely back to his homeland where the sorceress Sardelle can, he hopes, advise him on how to care for them. But while he, Rysha, and Major Kaika are investigating a friend’s death and trying to arrange passage home, someone steals one of the baby girls.

In the first book of the Tensorate series, a rebellion threatens the power of the Protectorate. Akeha, one of the twin children of the Protector, leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the rebels. In the second book in the Tensorate series, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once bound her. Broken by the loss of her young daughter, she now hunts deadly, sky-obscuring naga. And an investigation into atrocities committed at a classified research facility threatens to expose secrets that the Protectorate will do anything to keep hidden in the third volume. 

London is in the frozen grip of an unnatural winter, and Queen Victoria wants answers. Cara and Nate know who - the Curator. The queen's artifact hunters just don't know what is responsible. Cara is on the trail of an ancient and powerful artifact capable of freezing a city and stirring demons. First she must confront her past and her father's history. Only in learning why her father became a disciple of the Curator can she hope to learn what the old noble seeks and why he is so fascinated by her.

As a member of the Order of the Round Table, Kendall Lake is overqualified to be investigating strange phenomena at a seaside photography studio. But since the photographer is related to the Order's most powerful sorcerer, Kendall reluctantly boards a dirigible to Brighton.

We wish you a steampunk Christmas.... Changed forever after tragedy, a woman must draw strength from her husband's love. A man learns that love isn't always what you expect. A thief steals the heart of a vengeful professor. And an American inventor finds love Down Under. Enjoy Victorian Christmas with a clockwork twist in these four steampunk novellas.

As part of her devil’s bargain with the industrial steam barons, Evelina Cooper is finally enrolled in the Ladies’ College of London. However, she’s attending as the Gold King’s pet magician, handcuffed and forbidden contact with even her closest relation, the detective Sherlock Holmes. But Evelina’s problems are only part of a larger war. The Baskerville affair is finally coming to light, and the rebels are making their move to wrest power from the barons and restore it to Queen Victoria.

Ever since he awoke one day on the floor of his workshop with a brain-splitting headache, Asher Quigley has been haunted by fleeting visions of a beautiful woman everywhere he looks - a woman he's sure he knows, but can't recall. In spite of this he has finished his most wondrous invention yet, one that will literally make history: a time machine. But before he can complete his exacting calculations a bizarre accident causes the device to be activated, with him inside! He awakes to find himself in his lab, eight months in the past, and suddenly he remembers her....

What Ho, Automaton! chronicles the adventures of Reggie Worcester, gentleman consulting detective, and his automaton valet, Reeves.

Reggie, an avid reader of detective fiction, knows two things about solving crime: One, the guilty party is always the person you least suspect. And, two, the Murders in the Rue Morgue would have been solved a lot sooner had the detective the foresight to ask the witnesses if they’d seen any orangutans recently.

Transported through time to the dank streets of Victorian London, Alex Locke seeks to unravel the mysteries of the Obsidian Heart, the enigmatic object to which his fate is inextricably bound. When a string of grisly murders takes place across the capital, Alex follows a trail that will lead him through the opium dens of Limehouse, into the dark and twisted world of the Society of Blood and ever closer to unlocking the secret of the Heart.

Æther gestaltet die Welt neu. Jeden Tag werden Entdeckungen und Erfindungen gemacht, die das Leben, die Technik, Tiere und Menschen verändern. Heute noch Luftschiffkapitän, morgen ein Monster mit Fell und Krallen, Flügel und Schnabel. Niemand weiß, ob er am nächsten Tag mit einer seltsamen Fähigkeit erwacht. Annabelle Rosenherz ist so eine Veränderte. Mit ihrer grünen Hand kann sie heilen und töten. Während die Welt sich langsam an die neuen Gegebenheiten gewöhnt, vermisst sie immer noch schmerzhaft ihren Vater, der nun seit zwei Jahren verschwunden ist.

New Pittsburgh, 1898 - a crucible of invention and intrigue. Born from the ashes of devastating fire, flood, and earthquake, the city is ruled by the shadow government of The Oligarchy. Jake Desmet and Rick Brand travel the world to secure treasures and unusual items for the collections of wealthy patrons, accompanied by Jake's cousin, Veronique Le Clerque. But when their latest commission leads to Jake's father's murder, the three friends are drawn into a conspiracy where dark magic, industrial sabotage, and monsters that prey on the night will ultimately threaten not just New Pittsburgh, but the whole world.