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The Plant A Steampunk Story
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Download or read book The Plant written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of man versus plant, plant versus machine, logic versus habit, possible versus real, biology versus mechanics, haphazard versus systematic and all the complexities in between. In the end the plant wins, since life always finds a way to elevate itself. But so does man. And so does the machine. Or whatever you want to call what it became.
Book Synopsis The Plant - A Steampunk Story by : Francis Rosenfeld
Download or read book The Plant - A Steampunk Story written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Francis Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an unauthorized trip to the local factory, a young boy discovers an unusual plant growing in the steam pipes. He keeps silent about it, afraid he would be punished, but watches intently as the town people’s concerns about the plant’s unbelievable resilience grow stronger by the minute. The plant keeps growing and seems to be inextricably fused with the steam pipe system, optimizing its energy efficiency and blooming metal flowers in the process. It ends up transforming the life of the city and starting a bio-mechanical hybrid revolution.
Book Synopsis Balanced on the Blade's Edge by : Lindsay Buroker
Download or read book Balanced on the Blade's Edge written by Lindsay Buroker and published by Lindsay Buroker. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn’t the model of military professionalism—he has a tendency to say exactly what’s on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship—but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he’s used to a little leniency from his superiors. Until he punches the wrong diplomat in the nose and finds himself issued new orders: take command of a remote prison mine in the inhospitable Ice Blades Mountains. Ridge has never been in charge of anything larger than a flier squadron—what’s he supposed to do with a frozen fortress full of murderers and rapists? Not to mention the strange woman who shows up right before he arrives… Sardelle Terushan wakes from three hundred years in a mage stasis shelter, only to realize that she is the last of the Referatu, the sorcerers who once helped protect Iskandia from conquerors. Their subterranean mountain community was blown up in a treacherous sneak attack by soldiers who feared their power. Everyone Sardelle ever knew is dead, and the sentient soulblade she has been bonded to since her youth is buried in the core of the mountain. Further, what remains of her home has been infested by bloodthirsty miners commanded by the descendants of the very soldiers who destroyed her people. Sardelle needs help to reach her soulblade—her only link to her past and her last friend in the world. Her only hope is to pretend she’s one of the prisoners while trying to gain the commander’s trust. But lying isn’t her specialty, especially when the world has changed so much in the intervening centuries, and if Colonel Zirkander figures out who she truly is, he’ll be duty-bound to sentence her to the only acceptable punishment for sorcerers: death.
Download or read book Generations written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Francis Rosenfeld. This book was released on with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the virtual world, immortality and reshaping matter reality takes a whole new meaning for the plucky descendants of the human race. The children of Terra Two are growing up in a world where dangers are non-existent and almost anything is possible. Follow their adventures and their travels across the universe. There be dragons...
Book Synopsis The Blue Rose Manuscript by : Francis Rosenfeld
Download or read book The Blue Rose Manuscript written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Francis Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if after devoting yourself to the study of an ancient manuscript for three whole years you found out you might be the one who actually wrote it? Well, penned it, anyway. No adventure is more spellbinding than the epic journey of the mind. You pull on a loose thread and all of a sudden the fabric of reality starts to unravel in front of your eyes. Nothing is certain anymore. Time falters. Life turns into a dance of power, contradiction and change. Reality is so much stranger than magic!
Book Synopsis Between Mirrors by : Francis Rosenfeld
Download or read book Between Mirrors written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Francis Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once you are made aware that you do not know the first thing about reality life becomes a lot harder, but also a lot brighter, more interesting and more surprising too. You suddenly start seeing the colors you couldn’t notice before, the details you used to toss aside because they didn’t make sense, you start seeing things just the way they are. Not everything that is hidden is wrong.
Book Synopsis My Dear Fiona by : Francis Rosenfeld
Download or read book My Dear Fiona written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Francis Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American anthropologist and her creative sister spend a year in the Orkney Islands trying to locate the burial site of a Viking princess from the 10th century. Much to their surprise, they find themselves embarking on an adventure much more meaningful than an archeological quest: they uncover an entire world of ancient Norse poetry, history, music, stories, our connection with nature and the world of the dead.
Book Synopsis Letters to Lelia by : Francis Rosenfeld
Download or read book Letters to Lelia written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Francis Rosenfeld. This book was released on with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never forget, my dear child, that life is made of days, and no matter how many days you were gifted with, you should strive to enjoy every single one of them. When you have given your love and attention to your family and friends, it will still be overflowing, so pay attention to the ideals you care about, to the people whose needs call out to you, to the human race, to the universe itself.
Download or read book The Library written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Francis Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the search for meaning yields too much. Welcome to reality according to everybody.
Download or read book Fair written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Francis Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is never easy growing up different, but when no one has looked like you in seven generations, social life can become quite difficult to manage. No enlightened elder would give heed to ridiculous superstitions such as “the blond curse” or “the fair maiden of the apocalypse”, nor will they believe that one glance from your clear green eyes can render cows barren, but… There’s always a but. It is never easy growing up different, but when no one has looked like you in seven generations, social life can become quite difficult to manage. Of course nobody blames you, poor innocent child, for being born a green eyed blonde in a village full of raven haired people, certainly not your aunt, who loves you just the way you are, for the most part. No enlightened elder would give heed to ridiculous superstitions such as “the blond curse” or “the fair maiden of the apocalypse”, nor will any reasonable person believe that one glance from your clear green eyes can render cows barren, but… There’s always a but.
Download or read book Mobius’ Code written by Francis Rosenfeld and published by Francis Rosenfeld. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you say about a girl who was supposed to die tragically young? That her guardian angel got distracted while writing her life code and inadvertently sent her into an infinite loop, a quantum uncertainty of sorts, packed with bonus features. This sort of stuff can create minor issues for the rest of Creation, issues which, of course, need to be ironed out, but there is nothing that can't be fixed with good team spirit and a can do attitude, especially if you're not unreasonably inflexible about the laws of physics. Don't worry about breaking reality, you can always make yourself another one, or several, and improve the quantum efficiency of the electromagnetic spectrum in the process. Still in beta testing.
Download or read book Karen Memory written by Elizabeth Bear and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me." Set in the late 19th century—when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house—a resourceful group—and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, beggin sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap—a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered. Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Steamed written by Katie Macalister and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Katie MacAlister's posts on the Penguin Blog. View our feature on Katie MacAlister’s Steamed. Katie MacAlister takes on Steampunk-and romance gets hotter than ever... When one of Jack Fletcher's nanoelectromechanical system experiments is jostled in his lab, the resulting explosion sends him into the world of his favorite novel-a seemingly Victorian-era world of steampower, aether guns, corsets, and goggles. A world where the lovely and intrepid Octavia Pye captains her airship straight into his heart...
Book Synopsis Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by : Gavin J. Grant
Download or read book Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories written by Gavin J. Grant and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first major YA steampunk anthology, fourteen top storytellers push the genre's mix of sci-fi, fantasy, history, and adventure in fascinating new directions. Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. Here, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre's established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings as diverse as Appalachia, ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California. Visionaries Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have invited all-new explorations and expansions, taking a genre already rich, strange, and inventive in the extreme and challenging contributors to remake it from the ground up. The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it.
Download or read book Worldshaker written by Richard Harland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Col Porpentine understands how society works: The elite families enjoy a comfortable life on the Upper Decks of the great juggernaut Worldshaker, and the Filthies toil Below Decks. Col’s grandfather, the Supreme Commander of Worldshaker, is grooming Col as his successor. Used to keep Worldshaker moving, Filthies are like animals, unable to understand language or think for themselves. Or so Col believes before he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run who is clever and quick. If Riff is telling the truth, then everything Col has been told is a lie. And Col has the power to do something about it—even if it means risking his whole future.
Book Synopsis The Fanciers & Realizers MEGAPACK®: The Complete Steampunk Series by : Phyllis Ann Karr
Download or read book The Fanciers & Realizers MEGAPACK®: The Complete Steampunk Series written by Phyllis Ann Karr and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 1702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fanciers & Realizers MEGAPACK® assembles Phyllis Ann Karr's complete series for the first time -- 37 stories and novels, totalling more than 1700 pages of great Steampunk/alternate history reading! Included are: CAGEY WARRINGTON THURSDAY SOMETHING SHADY AT SUNVALE CLINIC THE CYCLOPS KILLER THE REALIZERS/FANCIERS WORLD THE STANDARD MURDER MYSTERY VARIETY’S NAME ROSEMARY LOZINSKI LESTRADE THE MONDAY AFTER MURDER WHO MOURNS FOR SILVERSTAIRS? THE BLUE THREAD KILLER MURDER WITH AN ARTIST’S RAG LOVE AND DEATH IN THE ASTEROID BELT HOUSE OF THE PENTAGRAM CORWIN AND ANGELA THE SPIDER: AN INCIDENT FROM THE BOYHOOD OF M. CORWIN POE A PREDICAMENT IN THE BELFRY THE BREAKING POINT MAYDAY ON THE MELON AUTUMN LEAF THE DREAMSTONE THE DREAMSTONE I: SOULS FOR TRADE THE DREAMSTONE II: LICENSED TO KILL THE DREAMSTONE III: CURLING SNAKES HELLMOUTH PARK THE PICKETS OF HELLMOUTH BLOOD GROTTO THE HELLMOUTH SEVEN CLEMENT CZARNY THE DIAMOND DOVE THE BIGOT AND THE BARITONE A COLD STAKE THE TITLE ROLE THE DRACULA OF PI RHO BABBITT’S DAUGHTER APPENDICES THE VAMPIRE AS SHAMAN: Clement Czarny’s Theory THE PURGATORY CLUB If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Download or read book Story Mode written by Julialicia Case and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of a hyper-competitive AAA industry and the perception that it is a world reserved for top programmers and hard-core 'gamers', Story Mode offers an accessible entry-point for all into writing and designing complex and emotionally affecting narrative video games. The first textbook to combine game design with creative writing techniques, this much-needed resource makes the skills necessary to consume and create digital and multi-modal stories attainable and fun. Appealing to the growing calls for greater inclusivity and access to this important contemporary apparatus of expression, this book offers low-cost, accessible tools and instruction that bridge the knowledge gap for creative writers, showing them how they can merge their skill-set with the fundamentals of game creation and empowering them to produce their own games which push stories beyond the page and the written word. Broken down into 4 sections to best orientate writers from any technological background to the strategies of game production, this book offers: - Contextual and introductory chapters exploring the history and variety of various game genres. - Discussions of how traditional creative writing approaches to character, plot, world-building and dialogue can be utilised in game writing. - An in-depth overview of game studies concepts such as game construction, interactivity, audience engagement, empathy, real-world change and representation that orientate writers to approach games from the perspective of a designer. - A whole section on the practical elements of work-shopping, tools, collaborative writing as well as extended exercises guiding readers through long-term, collaborative, game-centred projects using suites and tools like Twine, Audacity, Bitsy, and GameMaker. Featuring detailed craft lessons, hands-on exercises and case studies, this is the ultimate guide for creative writers wanting to diversify into writing for interactive, digital and contemporary modes of storytelling. Designed not to lay out a roadmap to a successful career in the games industry but to empower writers to experiment in a medium previously regarded as exclusive, this book demystifies the process behind creating video games, orienting readers to a wide range of new possible forms and inspiring them to challenge mainstream notions of what video games can be and become.
