Steampunk 101

A guide to all things steampunk

Keeping It Alive 2016

Held annually, Keeping It Alive is a contest open to all genres under 20k views. Our aim to help under appreciated authors to tell their tale to a wider audience. Starting Date (Open): 4/26/16 Ending/Closing Date: 8/15/16

The Rain (Part III of the Runner Series)

The conclusion of The Runner series. ================================== Half a year has passed since the fall of Babel. In that time, tales of the Runner have drifted from truth into legend. There are stories of a thief who toppled an empire, whispers about a hero who sacrificed everything to free us from the iron gri...

The Survivors

Birds fly over the streets of Saxet. A sense of despair looms in the air as the Resistance prepares for the annual tests. Seven deadly tests. Designed to kill and leave behind the Survivors, the ones who must be eliminated. With blood on their hands and a grave history with Saxet, Resistance leader Veronica Blanch...

The Wastelands (Part II of the Runner Series)

Part 2 of The Runner series. ================================== The Runner's Rebellion was only the beginning. Tensions run high as the City struggles to repair itself after a civil war. Intacts and Fragments fight to find themselves a place in the new order amid whispers of a Queen being unfit to rule. The delicate b...

The Runner (Part I of the Runner Series)

The world as we know it ended 209 years ago. From a desert wasteland springs a single kingdom, ruled by a tyrannical King and trapped in an endless war against the shadowy desert warriors. As a desperate bid to save what remains of humanity, society has been split into two distinct classes, nicknamed the Court and th...