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SpykeZ

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Posted: Thu, 4th Aug 2011 22:28 Post subject: Air pirates and zombies and steam punk OH MY

So I don't really read..like..EVER, but this new city I moved to had this "quaint" little book store downtown and this cover caught my attention so I grabbed it and started reading the back. Instant buy!

The book is "Boneshaker" by Sherie Priest

http://www.amazon.com/Boneshaker-Sci-Fi-Essential-Books/dp/0765318415

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In an alternate 1880s America, mad inventor Leviticus Blue is blamed for destroying Civil War–era Seattle. When Zeke Wilkes, Blue's son, goes into the walled wreck of a city to clear his father's name, Zeke's mother, Briar Wilkes, follows him in an airship, determined to rescue her son from the toxic gas that turns people into zombies (called rotters and described in gut-churning detail). When Briar learns that Seattle still has a mad inventor, Dr. Minnericht, who eerily resembles her dead husband, a simple rescue quickly turns into a thrilling race to save Zeke from the man who may be his father.

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sabin1981
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Posted: Thu, 4th Aug 2011 23:16 Post subject:

That sounds great!! Shocked

Thanks SquirrelMan© I think I'll grab that =)

Ooooh, seems like it's the first in a trilogy - with each book being self contained.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreadnought-Cherie-Priest/dp/B0057D8UZC/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Dreadnought

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An intimate, well-crafted portrait of a nurse on a mission adds depth to this exceptional Civil War steampunk thriller, the self-contained sequel to 2009’s Locus Award–winning Boneshaker. Mercy Lynch, recently widowed and taxed to exhaustion by caring for Confederate wounded in Richmond, must cross the war-torn nation to reach her estranged father, who lies dying in the Washington territories. After her dirigible is shot out of the air, Mercy joins Horatio Korman, a Texas Ranger with an agenda, on the Union’s famous steam engine, the Dreadnought. On their trail are desperate Confederate soldiers and a zombified Mexican legion.

and the upcoming third book, due for release in September;

http://www.amazon.com/Ganymede-Clockwork-Century-Cherie-Priest/dp/0765329468/ref=pd_sim_b_3

Ganymede

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The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he’s happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money’s good, he doesn’t think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects. But becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly’s first legal gig—a supply run for the Seattle Underground—will be paid for by sap money.

New Orleans is not Cly’s first pick for a shopping run. He loved the Big Easy once, back when he also loved a beautiful mixed-race prostitute named Josephine Early—but that was a decade ago, and he hasn’t looked back since. Jo’s still thinking about him, though, or so he learns when he gets a telegram about a peculiar piloting job. It’s a chance to complete two lucrative jobs at once, one he can’t refuse. He sends his old paramour a note and heads for New Orleans, with no idea of what he’s in for—or what she wants him to fly.

But he won’t be flying. Not exactly. Hidden at the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain lurks an astonishing war machine, an immense submersible called the Ganymede. This prototype could end the war, if only anyone had the faintest idea of how to operate it…. If only they could sneak it past the Southern forces at the mouth of the Mississippi River… If only it hadn’t killed most of the men who’d ever set foot inside it.

But it’s those “if onlys” that will decide whether Cly and his crew will end up in the history books, or at the bottom of the ocean.

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SpykeZ

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Posted: Fri, 5th Aug 2011 04:11 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

yep I plan on getting all of them sooner or later. Bit broke since the move buying stupid shit I didn't even think about like god damn toothpicks and toilet paper lol