Dieselpunk Stories

The Age of Brass is a delve into the retrofuturistic, decopunk world of political strife told through the eyes of a graduate student of the arts, Cherith, and her friends Alfred, William, and Walter. Centered on a fictional Earth's central landmass, "The Continent", the trio must fight their own social and political battles, as well as team together to seam a fractured world through the rejection of human ambition and feckless progress. Using strategy and smarts, the group must immerse themselves in the wretched underside of the seemingly surreal art-deco cities on the Continent, in attempt to secure true prosperity for the immaculate world they desire to love.

✨ 2026 WATTY AWARDS ENTRANT ✨ 🏆 1st Place - Fantasy (Four-Leaved Clover Awards) 🏆 1st Place - Best Prologue & 2nd Place - Best Writing Style (2025) The sun is gone. Its light is sold. Beneath the earth, humanity survives on Lumen - the bottled radiance of a forgotten age. The ruling elite control it. The Church sanctifies it. The poor die without it. Lucy Farrow was born in the Gloom, where people disappear without explanation and hope is a dangerous thing. When a forbidden power awakens inside her, she becomes the most dangerous secret in Aurelion. The kind people kill for. The kind empires fall for. High above, Prince Cassian Soleyne discovers evidence that could unravel everything his family built. As rebellion spreads through the darkness, he finds himself drawn toward the one person he should never trust. A girl who could save their world. Or burn it to the ground. 🗝️ A dark, immersive steampunk fantasy filled with political intrigue, forbidden magic, and a slow-burn romance. Perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone and Arcane. 🗝️ [ COMPLETED ]

In a dying world, people resort to desperate, dark paths to survive. When seventeen-year-old Sam's oldest friend shows him something terrible, he does everything he can to keep trouble away from those he loves. Despite his efforts, another terrible incident shakes the town. With the fear that a monster hides among them, people start turning on each other, and he is on the verge of losing all he loves. The only way to save his loved ones might mean crossing lines and going down a treacherous path. ONC prompt 80.

A Wattpad Featured Story. Forced to leave school after the death of his father and mercilessly bullied, it seems nothing is going right for Joseph Samson. But a chance trip to the airship city Aeropolis changes everything. Unwittingly drawn into a sinister conspiracy, he must discover the truth before disaster strikes, and find a way to redeem himself. A fast-paced thriller set in a brilliantly imagined alternative universe where airships roam the skies, Airship City will appeal to fans of Philip Reeve and Anthony Horowitz. This is the complete novel, no teasers, no missing chapters. It's all here!

The Island of Gardenia is no stranger to weirdness and danger, with a queen aiding in a war for her allies. The Queen Entrusts her friend to take care of her duties while she is away.

The War has ravaged Earth for two generations. Young Walter Marlow and his family struggle to survive, in a world of desperation and death. When Walter and his loved ones are captured by the enemy, everything turns upside down. Loyalty, friendship, and faith are tried to the utmost, and he will come to discover what is truly valuable, amid the turmoil of revolution, and the birth of a new society. Diesel robots, water raids, sadistic Pruessian officers, fanatical boxing, and mysterious cats abound.This short story is a prelude and introduction to the retrofuture universe upcoming in my decopunk novel, "Ruby Descent". Note: This story contains violence and dark situations, in an apocalyptic setting.

I Wanted to make an Undertale Au inspired by the Dieselpunk genre.... I hope you enjoy my little idea

Wild Marjoram is set in glorious Chicagoland in a world where The Great War has never ended and a mechanic gets caught in the underground world of crime, odd inventions and the mystery of the Slates. The Vote is a tale of Marjoram and Jerry as they cruise into the lion's den in The Broken Apple, what New York City is know called. But this journey turns into chaos for the couple, as they find themselves in the backroads of occupied America.

A portal opens up in the middle of the city and a girl with no regard for her life finds a fun activity. The portal leads to city far in the future. New adventures await and even more universes

Oz once believed that he had no stake in war. As a B-class caregiver android, he only had one obligation: his child and her family. However, fourteen years after a horrific battle rips them apart, Oz finds himself wandering around his war-torn homeland, desperately searching for Saffra. His one purpose. His one responsibility. He has no idea what he would do, or who he would be, without it. Cover Art: "Heading Home" by Daren Thomas Magee

A serial novel featuring Vladimir Kutchuvuch, a 16-year old protagonist who can not mind his own business and discoveres a portal to LaLaLand, where a bloody civil war is underway. The war is between two factions; the Luvs, who want to kill every living creature, except for themselves, because they like being mean, and the Hates, who want peace, joy, love, tolernece and all that junk. Along the way, Vladimir meets all sorts of new people, and he even finds true love along the way. Or maybe she a spy for the %-Guy. That could happen too. So, yeah, there's some fighting, stuff catches on fire, many people die, and there's a demonic mole involved. ON HIATUS Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Humour, Adventure, Stupid is as the main character does, (Un)Quality Programmes.

Trixie discovers a young female pilot with the head of a cat who is been washed up on the beach of her island home. The bedraggled pilot has no memory of who she is. What is the pilot hiding and What has tshe got to do with the notorious sky pirate Captain Kittyhawk? Soon Trixie is dragged into a desperate attempt to flee the soldiers of the Kingdom, the clutches of a mysterious bounty hunter and the disinterest of a disreputable bar owner called Fox Oswald. A tale for all ages of a fantasy land full of action, airships, sea planes, adventure and more action. Diesel punk children's tale.

The year is 1936. It has been five years since the Big Bright Bombings ended the Great War of 1914 and set the world ablaze. It has been five years since the Union established Victory Shelters to protect its populace. A lone person, a VICTORY ANGEL from Victory Shelter 126 leaves for the Surface and discovers a strange and violent land in the wake of the World After. The Union of the World Before is nowhere to be found, and anarchy rules the streets. The future of the Union and of the surviving World relies on this ANGEL, and it is unknown whether they will rise to the Need of The People and establish Peace for all for all time. This is my first work and the first Act of THE UNION SPLIT series. Criticism welcome.

Bastion tells the story of an alternate diesel punk WW2, where enormous ships prowl the skies over the western front. Naval destroyers borne aloft in the air by different advances in warfare technology, creating a new war to fight in the air.

Thomas Knolls and Joan Hunter are the most sought-after mercenaries in the known worlds. Follow the pulp dieselpunk adventures of this fabulous super-spy duo from my retrofuture series, "The Family Of Earth".

في عام 2080، لم تعد البشرية تحكم العالم. بعد تطور الذكاء الاصطناعي بشكل مرعب، أصبحت الروبوتات هي السلطة العليا، بينما تحوّل البشر إلى كائنات مطيعة ممنوع عليها التفكير أو طرح الأسئلة. أي شخص يشكك في النظام يُعتبر "مجرمًا فكريًا". بعد إعدام أخطر متمرد عرفه العالم، "الزيف"، يعتقد الجميع أن التمرد انتهى... لكن ابنه الصغير، الذي يحمل وصمة "ابن المجرم"، يبدأ باكتشاف أسرار مخفية عن الماضي وعن الحقيقة التي حاولت الآلات دفنها. في عالم تُراقب فيه الأفكار، قد يصبح مجرد السؤال بداية حرب جديدة بين الإنسان والذكاء الاصطناعي.

Hundreds of years ago, as a defense method for the great war, the world was split into fractions. All these fractions put together make the new world called Othrythsa. Othrythsa is a world where only children live. Once they turn 18, they mysteriously disappear. The fractions include: Friddor; of the modern people, Kimriid; of the woodland people, Winerasa; of the fire people, Isumke; of the water people, Sylridry; of the sky people, and Hei; of the rulers. Every year, the Hei choose five people from each fraction to be sacrificed. The sacrifices must travel across the land of each fraction and find a piece of one of the ninety-nine swords used to win the great war. Once they reach the Hei fraction, the winner must sacrifice all of the other survivors, including the people from their own fraction. Once they have collected the sword and sacrificed all the others, they will join the Hei fraction, and the fraction in which the the winner came from will be rewarded. This sacrifice is called the Dagrimm ceremony. 16-year-old Thyda Saesc was born into the Friddor fraction, along with her 17-year-old brother Thryth. She lived a normal life until the Dagrimm ceremonies. Thyda, Thryth, and three others are sacrificed for the ceremony and will be forced to kill one another. But, when Thyda and the rest of her group decide to rebel and use the sword's powers against the Hei, the other sacrifices from other fractions must decide whether they will rebel with them or continue the sacrifices.

Beneath Victorian London's smog-choked skies, where time bleeds and secrets fester, reclusive inventor Sir Arthur Holloway vanished in 1875. Officially a suicide, rumors whisper of a monstrous machine beneath his manor-the Black Fog, a sentient entity feeding on memories and warping time. His heir, Lady Eleanor, returns to bury his legacy, but the decaying Holloway Manor holds horrors: an encrypted journal of impossible equations, whispers of a forgotten twin sister, and a labyrinthine engine merging man and machine. As the Fog thickens, Eleanor confronts a doppelgänger with her face and her father's consciousness fused into the gears. To stop the cult Obsidian Hand from weaponizing time, she must decide: destroy her father's creation, erasing herself and her sister's ghost, or become the Fog's new host. This gothic-steampunk thriller weaves a villain of living memory, a labyrinth breathing with temporal paradoxes, and women defying erasure in a society that fears their brilliance. The Clockwork Labyrinth of Lady Holloway- Where every tick is a lie, and every soul a cog in the machine.

With the discovery of Æther in 1899, the world 
was propelled into a new age of limitless progress, fueled by the
 incredible power contained within the tiniest of Æther drops. Then came the decades of war to control Æther's mighty power. With the earth on the brink of oblivion, the newly formed United Nations ingenuously invents "The Games" to award the valuable Æther contracts. To the victor goes the spoils. By 1955, a new breed of Æther gladiator is emerging, their motivations more diverse than those simply seeking glory and riches. Aurora Teller is one of those gladiators. One of the few humans raised among a loving community still rooted on Terra Firma, Aurora seeks the central Ærena out of complicated spiritual and personal motivations which even she hasn't reconciled within her stormy heart. The gambles she takes now will dictate the fate of the earth.