The Alchemy of Stone

Author	Libba Bray
ISBN	0385733410

Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy, spending time with her friends in the city, attending ritzy balls, and on a somber note, tending to her ailing father. As she prepares to ring in the New Year, 1896, a handsome young man, Lord Denby, has set his sights on Gemma,...

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Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente enchanted readers with her spellbinding In the Night Garden. Now she continues to weave her storytelling magic in a new book of Orphan’s Tales—an epic of the fantastic and the exotic, the monstrous and mysterious, that will transport you far away from the everyday….
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Author	Franny Billingsley
ISBN	0803735529

Before Briony's stepmother died, she made sure Briony blamed herself for all the family's hardships. Now Briony has worn her guilt for so long it's become a second skin. She often escapes to the swamp, where she tells stories to the Old Ones, the spirits who haunt the marshes. But only witches can see the...

Author	Jaclyn Dolamore
ISBN	1408802120

Nimira is a music-hall performer forced to dance for pennies to an audience of leering drunks. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to do a special act - singing accompaniment to an exquisite piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new life. In Parry's world, however, buried...

Author	Cherie Priest
ISBN	0765318415

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...

Author	Jeff VanderMeer
ISBN	1892391759

Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories. Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances—synthesizing imaginative...

Author	Caitlin Kittredge
ISBN	0385738293

In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city...

Author	Dru Pagliassotti
ISBN	0809572567

A steampunkish romantic fantasy set in Ondinium, a city that beats to the ticking of a clockwork heart. Taya, a metal-winged courier, can travel freely across the city's sectors and mingle indiscriminately among its castes. A daring mid-air rescue leads to involvement with two scions of an upperclass...

Author	S.M. Peters
ISBN	0451461932

A thrilling new Steampunk fantasy from a talented debut author

TWO GODS-ONE CHANCE FOR MANKIND

In Victorian London, the Whitechapel section is a mechanized, steam-driven hell, cut off and ruled by two mysterious, mechanical gods-Mama Engine and Grandfather Clock. Some years...

Author	Elizabeth Bear
ISBN	1596061065

Abigail Irene Garrett drinks too much. She makes scandalous liaisons with inappropriate men, and if in her youth she was a famous beauty, now she is both formidable--and notorious. She is a forensic sorceress, and a dedicated officer of a Crown that does not deserve her loyalty. She has nothing, but...

Author	Ian R. MacLeod
ISBN	0441012744

If this book had been a movie, I can imagine that the pitch session would have gone like this:

Writer: Think: Great Expectations meets Germinal!
Producer: Germa-what?
Writer: It's this French novel by …
Producer: Nobody's gonna wanna watch a French story. What are you? Crazy?
Writer:...

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Amy Brent

CANDICE CARLSON: Men are douchebags!  I’m sorry, but there’s just no other way to put it and they can’t deny it. They only want one thing from us, girls.  Then, just as you’re about to give it to them, they dump you like a hot rock because their mommy says you’re not good enough for their little...

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Amelia Wilde

I finally met the man of my dreams…and he’s my new boss.

It’s not easy working for the most demanding photography studio in all of New York City. In fact, it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

But the soul-crushing hours are going to be worth it someday. That’s what I keep...

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Martha Wells

Murderbot prequel short story! 3.5 stars. It's free online here at Wired magazine. Review posted on Fantasy Literature:

I hugely enjoyed reading the four MURDERBOT DIARIES novellas last year, so when I found that Martha Wells had published a prequel short story online in December, I was all...