Steampunk Pirate

It's the year 3245. Earth's Republic evolved into the Galactic Empire. After the outpost wars, the Galactic Space Force became the peacekeepers. Up from the ashes rose rogue pilots. These pilots became the Pirates of the Galactic Empire.

Irene Radford offers new and old stories that reach from a weapon of mass destruction that could change the outcome of the U.S. Civil War, the truth behind why the ballet Giselle disappeared for nearly fifty years, pirates in Indonesia questioning whether we should control technology or be controlled by it, to a glimpse of Princess Victoria coming of age as secret operatives try to protect her from madmen acting in the name of long dead Lord Byron.

Brimming with mystery and treasure, this action-packed tale sends a boy in need of luck and a girl in need of a friend on an adventure that will change their lives forever. Meet George, the third Lord of Devonshire and the unluckiest boy in London. Why is George so unlucky? First, he's an orphan. Second, unless he sells everything, he's about to lose his house.

Yuliya Black is betrayed by the crew she was navigating for. After a bloody scrape with the black-sails, she and her apprentice find themselves stranded on a port in a nasty foreign city. Between the card games, she's won and the women she's bedded, Yuliya becomes persona non grata with local authorities. Willa leads Yuliya to a potential new job. A captain is seeking a new navigator for his ship. Yuliya must roll the bones of fate and take this chance to bid farewell to her troubles. Soon she will realize that between the broody half-fairy Captain, and the deadly lady assassin, her ...

For Zeina and Jackson, life has changed dramatically. Now on the run with the fearsome sky pirates, The Smog Rats, their days are full of adventure. Still, Zeina is excited to be safe for a week or two when she and The Smog Rats attend the infamous Solstice Festival in a grand but secretive palace built by the ice bears. As humans are usually forbidden to attend and celebrate the Gathering - the only gathering of horned sky whales left, which happens only once every 10 years - she and Jackson are honoured. But things aren't quite right.

In his undead quest for justice, Felix Gomez - detective vampire extraordinaire - has traveled from dusty desert battlefields, to gritty urban barrios, to the deepest corners of outer space. Now he's about to embark on his wildest adventure yet: back to an alternative past of steam-powered technology, telepathic magic, and intrigue more deadly and unforgiving than any he has ever encountered. There, he's a renowned pistolero hired to find the missing daughter of notorious Chinese gangster Wu-Fei.

Zwei ungleiche Schwestern, ein legendäres Luftschiff und ein machthungriger junger Piratenkapitän... »Gestatten: Egil Leiðtogi, Pirat!« Als die Schwestern Birta und Iben auf einer Luftschiffreise von Piraten entführt werden, rettet sie nur die Aussicht auf ein üppiges Lösegeld ihres Vaters vor dem sicheren Tod. Doch an Bord des Piratenluftschiffs herrschen grausame Sitten und neben Schändung und Demütigung müssen die jungen Frauen viele Wochen der Angst durchleben. Besonders für die kluge Iben hat der brutale Anführer eine delikate Schwäche entwickelt und er ist kein Mann, dem man sich widersetzt.

Orphaned and forced to serve her country's ruling group of scribes, Karis wants nothing more than to find her brother, long ago shipped away. But family bonds don't matter to the Scriptorium, whose sole focus is unlocking the magic of an ancient automaton army. In her search for her brother, Karis does the seemingly impossible: she awakens a hidden automaton. Intelligent, with a conscience of his own, Alix has no idea why he was made. Or why his father - their nation's greatest traitor - once tried to destroy the automatons.