If you’ve been wanting to find out what’s been going on in the world of steampunk literature lately, or even if your shelves are just feeling a little bare, then this is the giveaway for you: a mini-steampunk library featuring a diverse array of steampunk novels, comics, and anthologies. Start by glancing over the lovely range of covers…
The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer. “A debut so magical… so extraordinary… it has to be read to be believed…. Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane….” And be sure to check out the steampunk art gallery publisher St. Martin’s Press put together in support of the book.
Flaming Zeppelins by Joe Lansdale. “What do the disembodied head of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Frankenstein, the Tin Man, Captain Nemo, the Flying Dutchman, and the inestimable Ned the Seal, have in common? Find out as they embark upon a spectacular set of non-stop steampunk adventures.”
The Professor’s Daughter, Written and illustrated by Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Guibert. “Imhotep IV is an Egyptian mummy who’s just opened his eyes for the first time in 3,000 years. Lillian Bowell is the daughter of a renowned Egyptologist. One day, when the Professor’s away, the two go out for an afternoon on the town. The heap of trouble that they land in—brought on by Mozart, afternoon tea, and a passing gentleman’s sensitive nature—onlydeepens when they learn Imhotep IV’s father is in town. Can Imhotep IV and Lillian stay together when both their fathers, the London Police, and even the Archeological society are desperate to drag them apart?”
Steampunk Prime, edited by Mike Ashley. “Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity. The modern day steampunk genre is a reinvention of the past through the eyes of its inventors and adventurers, but this collection is from real Victorians and Edwardians who saw the future potential of science and all its daring possibilities for progress and disasters.”
Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. An anthology with stories by William Gibson / Gail Carriger / Cherie Priest / Jake von Slatt / Cathrynne M. Valente / Steven Baxter / Daniel Abraham / Caitlin Kiernan / The Mecha-Ostrich / And More
But wait, there’s more! We also have some lovely swag created in support of Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Angels, including two mini-journals to write down your deepest steampunk wishes. Journals will go to the first two winners selected, and everyone will get stickers.
Now, wouldn’t these look lovely on your shelf? Just comment below, and they could be yours.
The Official Rules: To enter, leave one comment on this post—duplicates won’t count—by noon on Saturday, October 30, leave a comment in Facebook, or reply on Twitter. The 5 winners will be chosen randomly. Please check your email on October 23rd and 24th; if we don’t hear back from the winner in 24 hours, another winner will be chosen.
Sounds cool!
OK, I’ll bite, since the only SP book I have is Boneshaker, still on the TBR pile.
Excellent! Would love to get my hands on this collection and do some serious steampunk reading. ^_^
So full of WANT.
Sounds good to me…
books? Free boooks? I have *this much* space left in my bookcases…
Still have yet to actually read any steampunk literature as I’m slowly getting into the sub-culture. Started with style and music, but literature seems like the perfect next step!
oh wow! sounds like some awesome new reading =)
I could use a new, cool book, or two
I would love to get started with some steampunk books, and free is always good.
might as well
This looks like it would be a great beginning to the steampunk section of my bookshelves.
Pip Pip Clockwork Cheerios! I would delight in feasting my eyes on this curious collection indeed!
I’ll bite: these books sound like a lot of fun!
I saw the VanderMeers last weekend and I’m liking steampunk. This collection will be a good start to my reading list.
Not just free books, but free steampunk books! And not just free steampunk books, but free steampunk books I don’t have yet!
Add me to the list! I’ve been having a blast with The Bookkeeper’s year-long Steampunk Challenge, and would lovelove love another stack of books to blog about :D
I borrowed The Professor’s Daughter from my local library a while back and it was a lot of fun. The rest of these also look like they could be interesting and free is definitely in my price range. ^_^
I can always use more Steampunk on my shelves.
why yes, it would be a nice addition to my shelf.
More books! :D
Count me in. I like books.
I’ve been writing limericks all week
but I still have not heard speak
that I’ve won these contests
despite trying my best
and being a right proper geek.
Might be a long wait (“Please check your email on October 23rd and 24th”), but I’m still gonna enter! :)
Looks cool.
yes please
Hooray for books!
Ooooh shiny.
All of these sounds great – thanks for the contest!
I am becoming a Steampunk superfan after reading things like Osiris Ritual and Affinity Bridge. I would love to win here!
Cool. I have the Professor’s Daughter, but none of the rest.
Oh, The Dream of Perpetual Motion and Steampunk Prime are on my reading list–they sound wonderful.
Oh, I am so in on this!
Yes please, these look wonderful!!
in
Want. :)
This is a comment to enter a contest.
I have already lost, as I received no mail on October 23rd and 24th =(
They all look like alot of fun! Would be very happy to add them to my library. :-)
These books look awesome!
Yes please
*coughs* Well, I suppose it can’t harm…
Those look great! I’m in.
I would trade winning several of the other give-aways for this one. (Now, should I tell my friends about this or not …?)
Looks like a great prize to me.
I am sure my chances will end up being slim to none, but I can’t help myself – free steampunk books!
Sweet! Never read much steampunk.
quite the deal
Awesome prizes!
I’ve GOT to find out what adventures Frankenstein, the Tin Man, Captain Nemo, and the Flying Dutchman have! Please choose me!
Just getting into steampunk & these would be a lovely addition to the library.
comment…check.
More books to explore. Sweet!
this would be the best christmas present to me ever.
Yay for books!
Pleeeeease! My gears are grinding just thinking about these!
Books are always good.
Ooooooh…
I would love to win these books! :)
My library can’t keep up with patron demand for steampunk. These would definitely help!
Steampunk books!
These books look amazing! Particularly the Tempest-esque story… count me in!
ping!
Terrific set of books, I would love to enter this contest. Thank you!
This is beautiful!
Always looking to add to my already overburdened bookshelves…
Well, I obviously don’t have enough books. Otherwise, why would I enter this contest?
Mmmmm….books
I just bought another bookcase and not just one but two of the shelves are empty. I clearly need your help to rectify this.
The anthologies sound great.
DO WANT. :D
Oh, pick me, pick me please.
This is fantastic, since I write speculative fiction and have been looking for some more steampunk to read, so I have a better idea of what the genre is about.
Must have!
I want these books! This is my entry.
Need Steampunk!
I’m in too. I was looking for Steampunk II yesterday in the bookstore (just hoping it had been released and made it through the distribution chain).
A whole set of books that I don’t have yet! And I just built a bookcase and have an empty shelf. Clearly it was meant to be ;)
Would love to win and try a new genre.
Yes please.
Awesome!
Sign me up! I just moved across the country and had to leave most of my books behind. This would be a great start to replenishing my library.
Nice!!!
Oh, yes. I could always use more books, and I have a blank book fixation, so journals are welcome too!
I need moar Steam!
Yes!
Comment! Now books, please.
I would love to try some Steampunk. It sounds like I would like it.
Wow! Sounds great!
Pick me!?
omg, this is EXACTLY what I need as an introduction to the genre :)
I’d love to read these books!
I’m far from having shelf space to fill, yet I still want these.
Oh yes please :-D
Always up for new reads! :)
Want
I want it all:)
That would be awesome!
I ♥ free books.
Would LOVE these!
I’d love them, too…
Books are good.
These look good, haven’t really read any steampunk yet unless you include Glass Books of the Dreameaters
Great collection!
They look great! (Of course, all books do).
that would be great to win!
Must have more books!!!
Steampunk is a better visual genre than prose but I’m willing to win so I can read more and reevaluate.
wicked cool
Awesome!!
YES PLZ. These giveaways are the best!
Enter me, please. I’ve read some Lansdale in that setting before and it was excellent.
I love me some steampunk!
Booksses, my preciousss… books!
Ready from some free books.
Just a vision of an airship with Maxxim guns gliding over a column of fusileers on their way to Isalwanda.
Full steam ahead !!!
woo hoo! i love giveaways!
I need to try some more Steampunk. Count me in.
This would be a great start, since I don’t own any SP yet. (Gotta love public libraries.)
Wow. Yes please. I found myself sucked into reading me some Steampunk this month (thank you Nathan Fillion & Castle), and this just sounds great.
Oooh steampunk!
Looks like an awesome collection, of which I’ve read none (yet) – Hope to win!
Booooooooooks…
This is my hat. It is thrown into the ring.
Stuff!
I would love some more steam in my life.
Was eyeing a few of these the other day…
The Professor’s Daughter!!! The Professor’s Daughter!!!!
Squeeeeeeee!!!
Nice
All look like worthy brain food.
I can always use more books
Excellent!
please choose me, that my clockwork heart would beat again
Wow, those are amazing!
Awesome cover art!
my dot comment
definitely could use some more sp background…
These definitely look interesting.
Looks good.
Shiny! Want!
Awesome.
What a great contest! Yes please!
Shiney, love the steampunk fortnight.
Count me in!
Pretty neat covers!
Oooh, free books! Sign me up.
More proof that the future ain’t what it used to be
lucky 150
Looks great!
Sign me up.
oh yes indeed sir, yes indeed.
Nice.
I’ll take it.
Lovely! Our SF/F book club is working on our reading list for 2011. We haven’t read any steampunk yet. Bookmarks with our annual book list are distributed throughout the library system, so library users can read along even if they are not club members.
More steampunk? Yes, please.
Yes please! I need more!
awesome!
Every book looks so interesting. Would love to win and read one!
“Flaming Zeppelins” is the best book title I’ve heard today.
Well, if I don’t win here, at least there’s always Amazon!
Books. ^.^
By jove, I like free books!
I have just the perfect spot in my bookshelves for these
sounds great be sure to pick me
I need to read
Count me in! I want to try out some Steampunk.
Start the steam
Yeah! Steampunk! Oi!
Looks like something worth a few words of my time.
I would like to be considered for this contest. Thank you.
I guess I better finish building that time machine in order to check my email on October 23rd as per the Official Rules.
nice ones! I like your book giveaways…
Must. Finish. Time Machine. Soon.
Ooh. *drools* me please?
No need to finish time machine. I already checked my email on the 23rd and 24th. I guess I haven’t won in the futurepast. Is this entry futile, or can the futurepast be changed?
I love steampunk and can’t wait to read more!
Yes, please! Free books a great!
Don’t smack me, but I don’t have any Steampunk books. I would love to read what it’s all about!
Free Steam? Please.
Steampunk FTW!
please please please please PLEASE
I would like to read on of those!
Adding these to my library hold list!
One can never have enough steampunk–
Dream of Perpetual Motion looks really good…
Books!
This is an awesome prize pack.
Sign me up!
Oooo, I hope I get. I need a little more steampunk in my life.
Oh wow! Nice collection!
Shiny! And steamy!
I would love to read these books!
Awesome collection. I’d make a cute comment about when I’m supposed to check my email, but several people have beat me to it.
I would like to try these.
Nice collection!
Sounds like fun. Sign me up!
I really need to get some steampunk on my shelf.
Loving Steampunk fortnight!
Glad I found you on Facebook. Now it’s a lot easier to keep up.
Post!
Hey, I think that I have all of those books on hold at the library! Neat!
Awesome collection…those I have already I could give as great gifts even!
I never won any of Hard Case Crime’s contests, or the past Tor giveaways I’ve tried for, but what the hell. I was somewhat interested in steampunk the first time around but have no idea if there’s really any cause for excitement this time around. By all means, give me freebies and convince me!
I like books, too.
I’d really love to win this one.
Literature AND steampunk. Just missing dragons…. ^^
Cheers to the winner (hope it’s me)!
Oh my! A collection of steampunk books printed on actual paper!
Yes, sign me up.
(BTW, I looked at my email for last week and I didn’t win. Perhaps the date of the notification is wrong?)
Sounds like a great collection.
WOW!! this would be amazing!! I would love to get these, i’m so short on wonderful novels and reads!!!
Very nice!
I would love some new additions to my library, and I am sadly lacking in the steampunk genre!
Books?!
Ooh, they sound so good!
I love Steampunk–I read & reviewed George Mann’s The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual, and really enjoyed them, so I hope I’m chosen one of the winners of these novels, so I can read even more excellent Steampunk fiction!
Oooooh cool !
Barry
Has this European reader any chance? Thanks!
(“Excessive posting”??? You stupid steam-machine! First two or three times you don’t like my nick, then you don’t understand your own captcha, and finally I am the one posting excessively?)
Sir, and Madams, I would be ever so delighted to take these excellent tomes of your hands but even more so considering the most excellent price tag.
Your servant in Steam,
Miss wolfkit
I’d love to win this collection!
Well, I’d like that.
… and as you all can see, if one juxtaposes the flange with the bi-directional valve, the automaton will move the stylus across the page, creating a series of wonderful tales. The table-knockers call this automatic writing, but we have discovered that this is actually a temporal-aetheric phenomenon; the machine is reading vibrations from the future, copying books that have yet to be written.
All of this is good and well, but yesterday the machine created a book about something called copyright law. Ladies and gentlemen, from what my colleague can glean, some authors may have to pay us heaps of money when they finally write their greatest novels, simply because the machine wrote them first. The Society coffers will never be depleted.
Me
Those sound excellent! At the very least, my reading wishlist is a few tomes longer.
Ooooh!
Those look very good, count me in if you send to Ireland
Oh my yes! Do want!
I so want this!
Interesting…Very Interesting
Would be quite pleased to get my hands on any of these.
Sure, I’ll bite!
I would have to call in sick for several days in a row but, yes, I would like this. Very much.
Books! More to read!
Yes please
Books are good.
I’ll bite.
I’m going to pick up “Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded” regardless. That looks like entirely too much fun.
>
“A debut so magical… so
extraordinary… it has to be read to be believed…. Imprisoned for life
aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the
greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only
companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman
he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father
Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane….”
That is a little transparently Shakespearean, I think…
Me wantee.
this sounds good, I would love to own these,
Sounds great!
Sounds good!
This looks like one of the best giveaway’s yet!
Nice, interested for sure.
Oh man, me likey!
Good stuff!
Awesome!
Dear Random Number Generator: Pick Me! I’ve been good!
Just when I’ve finished my current pile of books!!
whoa!
ohhhh I so want these books I want them so much I forgot punctuation
Putting my hat in the ring.
Comment’d.
I need these books. Really. Sincerely.
Ooh, those look nice… and how awesome they must be INSIDE!! :)
i like me some books!
Nice buncha books ya got there. I’d be more than happy to take them off your hands, er, tentacles.
Count me in!
These are great. I’ve been eyeing that anthology, for one, since I saw it for preorder…
In the laconic words of our recently alive zombie friends, “Ooorgh, bhraynzzz.” [Translation: Yes, good Sirs, I would love to participate in your Steampunk Fortnight Giveaway of a Steampunk library.”
Nice, very nice.
Please?
Sure, why not. This would be lovely.
I would love to read more steampunk!
I heart Steampunk literature!
Yes.
Some very cool-looking swag there!
Free books? Yes please!
Some for me, too, please.
Indubitably
Books!
I haven’t read some steampunk in a looong time and this looks pretty awesome *o*
Books? Why, yes, thank you very much!
Yay books! I want one! :D
Steampunk + books = happiness
Great looking books
So many books. So little time.
Steampink Fortnight has unleashed quite the stream of coveting.
swell steampunk pack!
What a giveaway! Maybe this one will finally be the one I win.
yes please!
Yes, I would like to enter for these books!
Ooh! This is definitely one drawing I’d love to win.
Mais,oui! Je voudrais gagner ces livres s’il vous plait.
Oh let me have one!
A lovely little library, that is.
My bookshelf is looking mightly lonely.
I’d love to read these, or even just get stickers. Your picks are always so enticing, and there are too few hours in the day yet so many books!
I am already planning what to do with my winnings!
Yay steampunk books!
I have the perfect shelf for these books. It revolves about a small, steam engine system. I designed it myself and am quite proud of.
I don’t own any of these yet. It would be nice to win one so that I an save a few dollars when I inevitably purchase the rest. Thanks for having a great contest and site.
Comment, comment!
So full of want.
Nice editions to add to my collection.
What a sweet deal!!! Please count me in
Nice!
Don’t know about y’all, but I’m getting sick of all this steampunk, enough all ready ! Go read some Stross.
Cool! Nice contest!
Oh, yes please! I spend far too much on steampunk books and currently own none of the above.
Throw my goggles and aviator helmet in the ring!
made of awesome
I’ll try my luck.
Very cool giveaway, but why would I check my email on the 23rd or 24th if the contest ends on the 30th? :)
I’m in! I want.
pick me
Please pick me! Steampunk novels and children’s books have hands down the best cover art today. Why is that?
Please pick me!
:-)
I want it! Please, please, please!
Yeah… so you post until October 30, but you check you e-mail on October 23-24!? O.o Some retroactive contest, this is! :-D
I am a punk, so I deserve to win.
And I am steaming (from my nostrils), so *I* deserve to win :-)
Thanks tor.com for willing to steal so much space in my house ;-) I like that!
Yep, these are mine. I can’t wait to read the crap put out of them!
What an awesome gift. I hope to win.
All of these are on my wishlist already! I would love to win these :)
The books all look pretty cool. Maybe I’ll ask my library to get them.
Lovely! I’ve been wanting to read some of these!
A definite need for
http://www.frenchsteampunk.com
I need them
I love The Professor’s Daughter, and can’t wait to read the rest! :)
And they ask, “wouldn’t these look lovely on your shelf?” They would look quite lovely in my hands, while my mind devours their content.
Love the cover of The Professor’s Daughter
Great selection – go on, pick me!
The summary of Flaming Zeppelins is as good as the title
Great! Is this one open to steampunky Europeans, too? *puppy eyes*
I love the cover of ‘The Professor’s Daughter’ and the story sounds good too.
Ahh, steampunk. You can almost smell the oil and leather from here…
326 comments already – but I’ve nothing to lose, have I?
Dates are a little awry; perhaps time travel might be necessary to check that you won?
Unless, that mail I deleted days ago thinking it was a hoax meant I actually won something…
Steampunk me, baby!
Must… not… buy…. more… books!
I can see the start of a research library here…
Count me in! I’d love some more steampunk fiction – I won a copy of Boneshaker last year, and it was great!
Books!
I would love these!
Hope I win!
Books!!! I’m in.
I’m all for filling my bookshelves! Count me in please.
Yes, please. New books are a joy.
Great selection. Sign me up, too please.
Good reads.
Ooooh, the Professor’s Daughter looks nummy!
Do count me in.
Awesome!
Another escape from the Aether into begging for freebies!
Y’r ob’t svt. &cetera,
Right Rev. Rob’t Core
Wow! Great collection of books.
Please enter me.
Count me in :).
They look like fun books. I’m in.
Yes, please!
Very cool.
Sounds like a wonderful introduction to a genre I haven’t yet explored :)
Since I have no Sp books this would be an ideal way to start!
Please?
Awesome! Count me in!
A good looking assortment.
Steampunk is a sub-genre I’ve been wanting to explore. All I’ve read so far is Priest’s “Boneshaker”. I’m quite intrigued!
Books are the best!
These would be amazing! And incredibly helpful. I don’t know if I could ship them out if I were you!
I always like a good book!
Awesome ! I love books .
I WANT THESE BOOKS SO MUCH STEAM IS COMING OUT OF MY EARS.
Toot! Toot!
Yay.
Wonderland!
I recently discovered I like Steampunk. Please give me books :)
Want!
Count me in.
Hell Just the Lansdale was enough for me, great assortment of books. Count me in.
A great raft of steampunk for an incredible getaway!
I’m in!
PLEASE pick me, these are ALL on my hellacious booklist!
Those books sound great; I wouldn’t know which one to read first! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for this one!
count me in
Wow, this is awesome! Totally want!
a great collection
Looks like an awesome collection.
I hope the brass finger of the steam powered random selection engine falls upon this humble line of text.
I always love more books!
Here goes nothing!
Me too!
I would love these!
Have none of these and would love to get a chance to read and review these…..
Count me in.
Ooooo! I could always use more books in my library, they all look quite intriguing. :)
Great books!
need more steampunk….
awesome!
Great promo but… is it available to non US residents?
Oh yes please.
Looks awesome!
I have read a little Steampunk. Really enjoyed it.
What a great opportunity to expand my exposure to this rising genre. Thanks for the chance to win these great titles. Makes my clockwork heart spring a little tighter!
Definitely an awesome set of books!