Steampunk. "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century Steampunk also refers to any of the artistic styles, clothing fashions, or subcultures, that have developed from the aesthetics of steampunk fiction, Victorian-era fiction, art nouveau design, and films from the mid-20th century.[3] Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk. History[edit] Precursors[edit] Origin of the term[edit] Dear Locus,Enclosed is a copy of my 1979 novel Morlock Night; I'd appreciate your being so good as to route it Faren Miller, as it's a prime piece of evidence in the great debate as to who in "the Powers/Blaylock/Jeter fantasy triumvirate" was writing in the "gonzo-historical manner" first.
Modern steampunk[edit] steampunk cafe in Cape Town. Airborn - Kenneth Oppel. Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature!! Spyglass to my eye, I slowly swept the heavens.... Matt Cruse is the 15-year-old cabin boy aboard the Aurora, the 900-foot luxury airship he has called home for the past two years. While crossing the Pacificus, Matt fearlessly rescues the unconscious pilot of a crippled hot air balloon.
Before he dies, the balloonist tells him about the fantastic, impossible creatures he has seen flying through the clouds. Matt dismisses the story as the ravings of a dying man, but when Kate de Vries arrives on the Aurora a year later, determined to prove the story is true, Matt finds himself caught up in her quest. Then one night, over the middle of the ocean, deadly air pirates board the Aurora. Far from any hope of rescue, Kate and Matt are flung into adventures beyond all imagining. . . Leviathan Series - Scott Westerfeld. News Flash: The Manual of Aeronautics is OUT NOW! It’s in bookstores everywhere, or you can order it online at Powell’s, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or IndieBound. So, wait. What is the Leviathan series? It’s these three novels: Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run.
His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn’s paths cross in the most unexpected ways, taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever. The final book in the trilogy, Goliath, comes out September 20, so I’ll be on tour soon. And you should totally watch the trailer for the series. “Full of nonstop action, this steampunk adventure is sure to become a classic.”
“When a book pursues you into your dreams, you can’t ignore it.” “The request line for the sequel can start forming now.” Also available on eBook. Avatar: Boneshaker - Cherie Priest. At present, there are seven stories available in the Clockwork Century. (Boneshaker, October 2009 from Tor Books) 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 Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city.
His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. “Tanglefoot” – Available now, for free, at Subterranean Press Online. Dreadnought Ganymede. Horror Fiction. Horror fiction, horror literature and also horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers/readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural.
Often the central menace of a work of Horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the 18th century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. History[edit] Horror fiction has its roots in folklore and religious traditions, focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic and the principle of the thing embodied in the person.[1] These were manifested in stories of witches, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and ghosts.
Gothic horror in the 18th century[edit] Edgar Allan Poe Horror in the 19th century[edit] Characteristics[edit] This Dark Endeavor - Kenneth Oppel. Peeps - Scott Westerfeld. “Both medical thriller and science fiction, this fast-paced, captivating modern vampire story is enriched with biology and history. . . Entrancing throughout, but squeamish readers beware.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Read more reviews Buy this book: Some days you wake up, and you just have to write a vampire novel. I know, I know, there is no shortage of vampire novels already out there. If you search Amazon for “vampire” you get 2,616 books to choose from. Maybe there are too many vampire novels, I thought. Besides getting a new take on the sunlight-impaired, my other big concern was that my vampires should actually make some sense as far as science goes. After consuming all there was to know on these subjects, I came up with the four important features that any vampire novel (of mine) had to include: natural selection, sexual attraction, parasitic infection, and Elvis memorabilia.
Okay, I can’t tell you much more without giving the whole thing away. “[An] electric sequel. . . . The Power of Five - Anthony Horowitz. "Nobody does it better than Horowitz, as this deliciously frightening, supernatural thriller proves. " Publishing News Matt has always known he has unusual powers. Raised in foster care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a rehabilitation programme, only to find himself in the midst of sinister goings-on. Matt investigates and uncovers a terrible secret - eight guardians are protecting the world from the evil ones, beings banished long ago by five children. But devil worshippers want to let the evil ones back in... After his experiences at Raven's Gate, fourteen-year-old Matt Freeman thinks his days of battling evil are over. The battle with the Old Ones continues in the third exciting volume of the bestselling Power of Five series, from the creator of Alex Rider.
Fourteen-year-old twins Scott and Jamie Tyler have never known who they are or where they came from, but they have always known that they possess extraordinary powers. The outlook for the future of mankind has never been bleaker. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson. The Curse of the Wendigo. The Isle of Blood - Rick Yancey. Dystopian Fiction. The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures.
Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society, or utopia, as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction (sometimes referred to as apocalyptic literature) is the opposite: creation of an utterly horrible or degraded society that is generally headed to an irreversible oblivion, or dystopia.[1] Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures. Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found in science fiction and other speculative fiction genres, and arguably are by definition a type of speculative fiction. More than 400 utopian works were published prior to the year 1900 in the English language alone, with more than a thousand others during the twentieth century.[2] Subgenres[edit] Utopian fiction[edit] Dystopian fiction[edit] Combinations[edit] Ecotopian fiction[edit]
Truancy - Isamu Fukui. Title: TruancyRelease Date: 3/4/2008Publisher: Tor BooksISBN: 978-0-7653-1767-4ISBN-10: 0-7653-1767-2Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inchesPages: 432 Truancy will be available at your local bookstore and online at these retailers: Synopsis: In an alternate world, in a nameless totalitarian city, the autocratic Mayor rules the school system with an iron fist, with the help of his Educators. Fighting against the Mayor and his repressive Educators is a group of former students called the Truancy, whose goal is to take down the system by any means possible-at any cost. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Tack is just trying to survive. His days are filled with sadistic teachers, unrelenting schoolwork, and indifferent parents. Things start to look up when he meets Umasi, a mysterious boy who runs a lemonade stand in an uninhabited district.
Then someone close to Tack gets killed in the crossfire between the Educators and the Truants, and Tack swears vengeance. Reviews: - Kevin J. Furnace - Alexander Gordon Smith. My brand new novel, even more terrifying than Furnace! Imagine if one day, without warning, the entire human race turns against you. Every single person you meet becomes a bloodthirsty, mindless savage, hell-bent on killing you – and only you. Friends, lovers, even your mum and dad, brothers and sisters – they will turn on you, and they will murder you. And when they have, they will go back to their lives as if nothing has happened.
The world has the Fury. It will not rest until you are dead. Let the nightmare begin! Click here to check out the Fury Page! Witch & Wizard - James Patterson. Unwind - Neal Shusterman. This student created preview of the Unwind Movie isn't an official trailer, but is an excellent vision of what the film could be! Check out the Unwind Movie Site! Awards & Honors 2009/2010 Kentucky Bluegrass Award List 2010 South Dakota YARP Award List 2011 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award WINNER 2010-2011 New Hampshire Isinglass Teen Reads Award List NY Public Library “Books for the Teen Age” 2010 New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award Nominee 2010 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award List 2011 Nutmeg Book Award Nominee WINNER Vermont’s Green Mountain Book Award 2011 YALSA’s Popular Paperback Award List 2011 Iowa Teen Award List Germany's 2013 "Buxtehuder Bulle" Award -- nomination Unwind Study Guide Unwind Puzzles & Activities Book Description In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker.
Little Brother- Cory Doctorow. Official Downloads: Above you’ll find links to downloadable editions of the text of Little Brother. These downloads are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license, which lets you share it, remix it, and share your remixes, provided that you do so on a noncommercial basis. Some people don’t understand why I do this — so check out this post if you want my topline explanation for why I do this crazy thing. It’s kind of a tradition around here that my readers convert my ebooks to their favorite formats and send them to me here, and it’s one that I love! If you’ve converted these files to another format, send them to me and I’ll host them, but before you do, make sure you read the following: Only one conversion per format, first come, first serve. Fan conversions: ePub: EPUB file (Thanks, Hadrien Gardeur!) The Giver Trilogy - Lois Lowry.
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins. Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi. Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Fiction. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld. Uglies is set in a world in which everyone has an operation when they turn sixteen, making them supermodel beautiful. Big eyes, full lips, no one fat or skinny. You might think this is a good thing, but it’s not.
Especially if you’re one of the Smokies, a bunch of radical teens who’ve decided they want to keep their own faces. (How anti-social of them.) Uglies is a trilogy-plus-one, with Extras being a “companion novel” and told from a different point of view. “A superb piece of popular art.” Click here for an Uglies reading group guide Click here for Uglies discussion questions “With a beginning and ending that pack hefty punches, this introduction to a dystopic future promises an exciting series.”Kirkus Reviews (starred) “Highly readable with a convincing plot that incorporates futuristic techonologies and a disturbing commentary on our current public policies. “This book, the first in a trilogy, asks engaging questions about the meaning of beauty, individuality, and betrayal.
The Maze Runner - James Dashner. Read the first book in the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. The Maze Runner motion picture starring the star of MTV's Teen Wolf, Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Will Poulter, and Aml Ameen hits theaters September 19, 2014! Also look for James Dashner’s newest book The Eye of Minds, book one in the Mortality Doctrine series.If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze.
It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.Everything is going to change. From the Hardcover edition. Chapter 1 With another jolt, the room jerked upward like an old lift in a mine shaft. My name is Thomas, he thought. A minute passed. Nothing. 7th Sigma - Steven Gould. The Eleventh Plague- Jeff Hirsch. Realistic Fiction. Fiction is the form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not real, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author. Although the term fiction refers in particular to novels and short stories, it may also refer to a theatrical, cinematic, or musical work.
Fiction contrasts with non-fiction, which deals exclusively with factual (or, at least, assumed factual) events, descriptions, observations, etc. Features[edit] Realistic fiction[edit] Realistic fiction, although untrue, could actually happen. Some events, people, and places may even be real. Another sub-genre that may be included in this is crime fiction like Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie, Gremlin Greaves by Svaj Darwin and so on.
Historical fiction is also a sub-genre that takes fictional characters and puts them into real world events. Non-realistic fiction[edit] Semi-fiction[edit] Quotes[edit] Elements[edit] Plot[edit] Climax[edit] Half Brother - Kenneth Oppel. Revolver - Marcus Sedgwick. Boy21 -Matthew Quick. Action Fiction. Alex Rider - Anthony Horowitz. Fantasy. Icefall- Matthew Kirby. The Books - Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan. Heroes of Olympus Rick Riordan. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer. The Wish List -Eoin Colfer. Lost & Found - Shaun Tan. The Lost Thing | A short film based on the book by Shaun Tan | Official Website. The Alchemyst -Michael Scott. Science Fiction. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov. Supernatural Fiction. Everlost - Neal Shusterman. Neal Shusterman: Bruiser. Jumper: Griffin's Story - Steven Gould. JUMPER: Griffin's Story. Maximum Ride - James Patterson. I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore. The Power of Six - Pittacus Lore. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson. Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game.
Enders Shadow: Command School (2009) #1 | Comic Books | Comics. Ender's Shadow.