Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk

The Singer    by Jessica Law
Price: Free! 27410 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk.

It's 2010, and science has yet to discover how to harness electrical power. The music industry is everything you'd expect: ruthless, conceited, avaricious, shallow—save for only one difference: there is no way to amplify the human voice. Doctor John Doe has discovered a revolutionary new process to transform aspiring musicians into Singers. But at what cost?
Over the Wire    by Thea Hutcheson
Price: $2.99 USD. 11230 words. Language: English. Published by Lilac Moon Books  on May 19, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk.

Brice Sebastian, a half breed, runs wire for Western Union across the great plains, open to white settlement since the Indians are moving down the Trail of Tears in this alternate history 19th Century America. An odd interaction between the solder and a new spool of copper wire creates a door into a world of great creatures. He decides such a land has promise that can't be ignored.
Doctor Gnome    by A.M. Burns
Price: $3.99 USD. 56390 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2012. Fiction » Fantasy » Epic.

Alchemy Pond, suave and powerful elven wizard, has been sent to lush, tropical Buteamore to uncover a gnomish plot devised by the diabolical Doctor Gnome. Some very beautiful forces stand between Alchemy and his goals, using their own brand of magic against him. Faced with more monsters than he could ever have imagined, the elf struggles to find answers.
Blightcross    by C. A. Lang
Price: $6.99 USD. 111020 words. Language: English. Published by Tyche Books Ltd. on May 18, 2012. Fiction » Fantasy » General.

She's a fugitive, thief, con-artist... and the best hope for a city besieged by oil and magic. Blightcross breaks the boundaries of steampunk, using fantasy to explore the world of post-colonialism and the greed of oil dependent cultures.
Inquisitor    by Frederick Ross
Price: $0.99 USD. 4390 words. Language: English. Published on May 14, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.

Yakob Ascher is an expert in forbidden computers. When a young engineer in the wilds of the Colorado territory is accused of building one, Ascher is sent to pass judgement on man and machine.
Spring-heeled Jack and the President's Ring    by D. L. Mackenzie
Price: $2.99 USD. 15110 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk.

In this second novelette in the Magnetron Chronicles series, Phineas Magnetron and the Hogalum Society investigate the disappearance of President Grant's West Point ring. Their investigation becomes intertwined with the mystery of Spring-heeled Jack, the shadowy terror of England, leading them from Calais to London, and back to America for a bizarre encounter with the notorious General Southwick.
Eva Golemina and the Calvert Street Sorceress    by Gary Lester
Price: $0.99 USD. 11070 words. Language: English. Published by Channel 37 Publications  on May 6, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk.

In the early 20th Century Eva Golemina, the disembodied brain of a woman living in a steam-powered simulacrum, travels across the Atlantic seeking a peaceful new life in Baltimore — only to encounter a mysterious man in a black suit and overcoat who casts no reflections . . .
The Wake of the Dragon: A Steampunk Adventure    by Jaq D. Hawkins
Price: $4.99 USD. 78520 words. Language: English. Published on May 5, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk.

James Dudley dreams of adventure, but no amount of secret fantasy will drag him from the security of a steady job as Mr Wyatt's clerk. That is until Mr Wyatt sends him on a clandestine assignment that will take him to the opium capitol of the country and aboard ship with airship pirates.
The Aurelian Archives: Palatine First    by Courtney Grace Powers
Price: $2.99 USD. 121540 words. Language: English. Published on May 4, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk.

This morning, Reece Sheppard woke up, put on his riding goggles, spats and waistcoat, and set out to take his airship captain's test at The Aurelian Academy, or The Owl. Tonight, he's lying in the academy's hospital wing with a very nice telegram letting him know he's failed…and vague suspicions that the meteorite that caused his ship to crash mightn't have been a meteorite at all.
Seconds: The Shared Soul Chronicles    by Brindi E. Lundberg
Price: $2.99 USD. 74910 words. Language: English. Published on April 30, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk.

The scarlet tattoo marked him as one who’d never been born. It marked him as a Second. Can scrap hunters Tide and Jobe work through their marks to discover the secrets of the soul?