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Prelude to Anarchy - Princess of Steam

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Elizabeth Sinclair lives in a world run by airships, steam, and magic. She was once princess of the Crown, now the young lady is captain of an airship whose voyages occasionally involve skirting the edge between legal and illegal. From small time smuggling to supporting local pirates, Elizabeth and the crew of the Crusader do it all.

Elizabeth's wish that her life never change comes to a crashing halt when the new Emperor of the Crown begins to enforce his rule. Military patrols, increased taxes, and harsher laws begin to ferment a deadly brew of rebellion that blows up when the Crusader finds itself fighting toe to toe against the entire Empire.All Rights Reserved

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Airship Stowaway by StephenWest5

This is a prequel to Airship City, but read that first as there are a couple of spoilers in this! When Joanna sneaks onto the battered old airship, she just wanted to find something to steal. But things don't go according to plan. The ship takes off unexpectedly, and she becomes an unwilling explorer of the world beyond Aeropolis.

The Iron Princess by Kelsi_Nguyen

She'll do anything to protect her family and kingdom. If it meant sacrificing her glamour and leaving behind the only home she knew, forever, to keep the Forgottens from interfering with the other Realms, she'll do it. He'll do anything to protect his sister. She means everything to him and the one person that would hurt him to lose. But when she gives herself up to the enemy, in order to protect their world, he'll risk everything to get her back. ---------------------------------------------------- Based on: The Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa [all images taken off of Google]

Brass Skies Vol. 1: The Battle of Chesapeake by JPKent80

"Declaring our Independence From the British One Airship at a Time." The colonies tried to protest once. They were brutally and ruthlessly crushed by the Red Coats. Now, no one thinks of rebelling. Not when the British have forts all throughout the colonies. Not when the British navy controls the skies, their airships looking down over the entire world like hawks poised to strike. Not when the price isn't just death, but the deaths of potentially everyone you love. But in a world ruled by fear and power hope comes from the unlikeliest of sources. There are always those that are pushed to far, who have lost a little too much, or who simply need the freedom of the skies. Those are the pirates; a collection of rebels, thrill-seekers, victims, and criminals whose motives are as diverse as their personalities but who are all headed towards a single flashpoint that will change everything. These are some of their stories.

The Steam Scavengers by BarbZaneson

(ONC2023 shortlist) Minnie, a retired airship pirate, and Eleanor, Minnie's respectable new wife, discover what's at the bottom of the seemingly bottomless pit that has opened in their steampunk city. Can they survive the strange world below, and protect their home city from disintegration? This is my entry for the ONC2023, using the following prompt: 38. A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole.

THE NEW LIFE, THE NEW ME - an Apple Loving Individual Thriller by AppleLovingIndividua

Set in the year 2046, in Houston, TX; a time where robots have outperformed humanity, most jobs are automated or performed online, physical shopping ceases to exist, and also the time where man only works 30 hours per week as full-time. A young woman, Kimberly Perkins, recently is kicked out of her boyfriend's house. She works hard day after day every Monday through Thursday as a bookkeeper at a huge financial institution. Catastrophe strikes as one day, Kimberley is notified that she was terminated from her job, as a result of technological automation, and is down flat nowhere. Finally she lands a new job online, in a virtual reality simulation, but later uncovers with the help of a young man, Jake, that the company she works for could be a central hub for shady, underground, secret activities. The worst part is, people have disappeared under strange, unknown circumstances. Only person she can turn to help at this point is her estranged twin brother, who stopped talking to her years ago. As they try to uncover a huge conspiracy, the three realize, they may be next on someone's hit list. For my family, friends, and all who appreciate my work. DISCLAIMER: This work is a pure work of fiction and is not intended to display and real-world scenarios or events. All character names, events, and locations are purely coincidental and in no way intend to bear any resemblance to the dead or any real-world scenario! Science Fiction - Thriller - Romance Rated PG-13 for violent action and language, strong use of drugs and some thematic elements.

Terrestrial Undead by VampyCatsUndeadStory

It's a rigid life on Airship 11, although most of the crew members don't mind. But when young unit 009 receives a punishment only whispered of behind closed doors, she sets in motion events which will thrust her and the only people who help her-003, a spunky mechanic who lets nothing get them down and 004, their ambitious best friend who lets nothing get in her way-into an unknown world on the ground, where skeletal robots maintain order and vampires lurk in the shadows.

Flash Gold (a steampunk adventure set in the Yukon) by LindsayBuroker

Eighteen-year-old Kali McAlister enters her steam-powered "dogless sled" in a race, intending to win the thousand-dollar prize and escape remote Moose Hollow forever. The problem? Fortune seekers and airship pirates are after her for the secret to flash gold, her late father's alchemical masterpiece. With her modified rifle and a pocketful of home-made smoke bombs, Kali wouldn't normally hide from a confrontation, but taking on a whole airship single-handedly is a daunting task. Unfortunately, the other racers won't assist her--they're too busy scheming ways to sabotage her unorthodox sled. When a sword-slinging stranger shows up, wanting to hire on as her protector, she's sure he has ulterior motives, but he's the only one interested in helping her. The question is...why? Flash Gold is the first in a series of steampunk novellas.

Lea's Liberation by Talia_Rhea

Paladin Series 8: War creates rifts between people. Between friends. Between families. In the struggle between two great nations, the hardest task can be simply finding a way to live with each other and mend those rifts. Lea Severine, captured and tortured, has sworn herself to the protection of her kingdom and its people. But that doesn't mean she isn't still a woman with a woman's desires and she has her eyes set on a man that, by all rights, should be her mortal enemy. However, her when her love can't be returned fully, how can she choose between him and her vows? Emilien Cesaire, captured and tortured, has sworn himself to the protection of his kingdom and its people. Even if they turn their back on him. His vows to the crown are binding. When he's offered the love of a woman that both excites and worries him, how can he accept it knowing that to do so would be to be the traitor everyone brands him as? Secrets are exposed, enemies are redeemed, and the tides begin to turn in a war that threatens to rip them apart, even as it brought them together.

Lady Luck (Sequel to Imperfect Date) by QueenKitty2617

California Life. Just when everyone thought Dave left forever, Buck finds a way to get him repaired. However, it comes to a point where due to a side effect Dave would suffer from after his repair process, both he and Buck are exiled from their company and their hometown entirely. They end up working for their competitor company in California, which they struggle to adapt to, and much to Buck's dismay, he has to protect his best friend from every Toon possible. Desert Rose. Into Hurricane's life comes two new employees that start working in the same company she works. She learns about Dave's initial attraction to her but doesn't seem too interested, and starts avoiding Dave completely after finding out he used to be a Bossbot at his old company to dodge thoughts of past trauma. She's not playing hard to get, she's simply hard to love. Lady Luck. Despite wrongly timed love, Dave is genuinely fascinated by Hurricane due to how different she is. She's the only Toon employee at the company, she has a tragic past and has suffered issues with the Bossbot department at her old company, and she fears rejection in the worst ways possible. Dave soon realizes he doesn't just want to support her, he needs to support her... while also protecting his friendship with Buck.

The Time Capsule by donnanoble1234

Meet Angelica Sparrow. Your normal teenager who likes boys (and girls are kinda cute too), struggles with homework, has a controlling and protective mother, a loner with one best friend, carries a sword to school and dresses like Elizabeth Swan...and may be headed for magic and adventure sooner than she thought. Wait, what were those last two? Join Angelica on a quest to save the world from the evil king Morgan, who kidnapped her father when she was a young girl, and is targeting all the people she loves. And in the final battle, she will have to sacrifice more than anyone.

Captain Kittyhawk & The Cloud Wars by The-Scrivener

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.

Once Upon A Steampunk by delapr007

Story 2 of short Steampunk story, an aircraft officer and a postman try to find the cure of a strange poison in an island full of dragons and sky pirates. To me, Once upon a Steampunk is a captivating journey into an alternate reality, where the gears of the Industrial Revolution turn in harmony with fantastical elements and a touch of Victorian elegance. In this mesmerizing tale, the air is thick with steam, and the clinking of mechanical contraptions resounds through the cobbled streets. Immerse yourself in a world where steam-powered marvels and clockwork wonders coexist with corsets, top hats, and elaborate fashion. The landscape is a fusion of the familiar and the extraordinary, where towering airships navigate the skies and intricately designed automatons carry out daily tasks.

The Pirate Hunter's Game (Finished) by RCDavis_Writes

Note: This story is finished and is terrible. The Pirate Hunter's Game Captain Jessip Sharp is a disgruntled merchant who has lost fortunes to air pirates countless times. The Governments of the floating cities scattered across the thirteen skies do nothing but make it hard for an honest man to make an honest living. The Good Captain takes to the skies once more. This time he is taking matters into his own hands. To hunt down and destroy the pirates that have for so long caused him grief. Even if, by the Government's definition, that makes him a pirate as well. Will Captain Jessip Sharp rid the skies of pirates, or will he soon discover that maybe the pirates aren't so different from himself. My name is Demon. And I hope you enjoy my steam powered, post apocalyptic story of airships, flying cites, and crazy redhead pirates.

Tale of The Broken Sword by noobzord96

A story told in two perspectives. Set in an alternate industrial world where radio technology is rendered nearly obsolete due to a magnificent yet mysterious and devastating phenomenon that has crippled its use. Nations has prospered with the further development of flight and the inception of the skyship, a series of heavily-armed floating warships that has the ability to cross continents and wrest control of the skies. This story arc is told in the perspective of a young Aurelian soldier, Everent Clauvis Griswall, who struggles to come in terms with his brother's 'death'. Severely delusional and suffering from a complex, he inadvertently sets out to find the truth behind the War that had killed his brother and engulfed the whole continent of Steiffer with chaos and death. The second story arc is set in the future Earth where an unexpected turn of mysterious events has triggered a massive War that has destroyed many countries, rendering the surviving nations struggling for what's left of the resources on the ravaged world. Unable to travel across devastated wastelands stretching hundreds of miles apart, nations have developed and built gravitational elevators as a main mode of transport among each other. The second story arc is told in the perspective of Jeremiah Kelson, a young and aspiring scientist/operative who had an unexpected military background and skill. Having no memories of his past, Kelson finally sets out to find the roots of his forgotten memories without knowing that it would place him in dangerous situations in search of his past life. After crossing paths with many different peoples of the other world, Kelson would eventually begin to question himself of his origins and has decided to find it out. Little does he know that fate will bring him in a chance encounter with another young soldier that might have some connections with him, leading to the revelations of a bigger and more shocking truth of the relations between the both worlds...

Masters of the Sky by axgirl13

Celia de Visher worked her whole life for her high position in the biggest criminal cartel in the Raised Cities Confederation. But she knows that if she wants to survive in the slowly degrading world where industrialisation led to the flood that wiped most of the known land cities, she needs to aim higher. To the skies. She steals one of the few remaining skyships and heads toward the Thundering Massive - a mountain range that walls off the known territory from uncharted lands of the New World. Unfortunately, the enraged cartel boss will not let her slip away so easily. The only chance for success and achieving her explorer dreams might be siding with the current government. But why would they aid a notorious pirate? Amazing cover made by @-DeeIsDead-

Assault on the Train by delapr007

Final story of the short steampunk, Sky Captain Victoria and her crew of smugglers have come up with the perfect plan to assault a moving train with their airships. Meanwhile, sisters Layla (a future inventor) and Elinka (a promising young reporter) will join a Cowboy and a jeweler to stop the bandits.

Lightning Bringer: (Lighting Seeker Book 2) by FrennzyChaos

Lightning Bringer: Book Two in the Lightning Seeker Series *** #8 Steampunk--- After taking down an AI airship, Vale is put on the AI's Death List and is thrust into the middle of a rebellion against a powerful technological enemy. But when the boy who has been by her side at every turn suddenly vanishes and everyone around her tells her it is better to let him go, she battles between staying on task to save humanity and struggling to uncover the secrets behind why everyone wants him gone. Book Three: Lightning Destroyer (Updated Weekly) ---------------------------------------------------- Copyright- @FrennzyChaos Cover by Canva Started- 2020 Highest Rank: ❊#2 IN AIRSHIP - 03/05/2021 ❊#8 IN STEAMPUNK - 03/11/2021 ❊#10 IN CYBERPUNK - 06/03/2021 ❊#28 IN PIRATES - 03/22/2021 ❊#86 IN DYSTOPIAN - 03/22/2021 If you are reading this story on any platform other than Wattpad or Inkitt, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe, form, please go to Wattpad or Inkitt. Thank you.

Wanting Forever by JenniferSable

All Effone Pacifica has ever wanted is to be the captain of an airship for the ASPECT company. Now that she's successfully earned her own ship, she'll allow nothing to jeopardize her position or her crew. Not even the allure of Trace Fortis' ocean-blue eyes and appreciation for dictionaries could threaten to break through her defenses. But Trace has his own demanding job as a carrier captain, and a hard past that makes romance impossible. When Effone is called away on a critical mission, she knows she has to let him go. Months later, reconnecting on assignment in the most remote, rugged land on earth, Trace and Effone have to face not only their feelings for each other but acts of sabotage from a mysterious enemy. Can they-not to mention their ships and crews-survive the attacks to finish where they left off?

Enter Abyss by The_twilight_writer

A battle for the throne, a prophecy, an inventor, and a game of life and death. Enter Mafaria; a world that has outlived its time of castles and knights and has moved to an era of technology powered by steam. Though for all their ingenious inventions, the people are enslaved to the Abyss keepers-- terrible worshipers of the abyss that sits near the edge of their city. The Abyss is said to have been a punishment from the gods; each day swallowing a bit more of the city. Yet to please the Abyss, one human is lowered as sacrifice and joins those known as the Lost. But when a young inventor dares to defy the law, he finds that all is not what it seems and he dares...to enter the Abyss. Note; The cover for this book was made by me

Lightning Seeker by FrennzyChaos

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Airship Stowaway

This is a prequel to Airship City, but read that first as there are a couple of spoilers in this! When Joanna sneaks onto the battered old airship, she just wanted to find something to steal. But things don't go according to plan. The ship takes off unexpectedly, and she becomes an unwilling explorer of the world beyond Aeropolis.