Steampunk is the twisted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul Di Filippo is master. The three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy are all set in a very alternative nineteenth century, and feature a mixture of historical and imaginary figures. In “Victoria,” a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and to hide the terrible secret from the nation. In “Hottentots,” Massachusetts is threatened by monsters from the deep; in “Walt and Emily,” Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she meets the future Allen Ginsberg.

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Steampunk is the twisted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul Di Filippo is master. The three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy are all set in a very alternative nineteenth century, and feature a mixture of historical and imaginary figures. In “Victoria,” a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and to hide the terrible secret from the nation. In “Hottentots,” Massachusetts is threatened by monsters from the deep; in “Walt and Emily,” Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she meets the future Allen Ginsberg.

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Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers? Feel like turning your photographs into works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte? Want to create illustrations in the styles of “The Simpsons”, steampunk and Victorian engravings? Then you need “Art and Design in Photoshop”. In this unique book, acclaimed master of photomontage and visual trickery Steve Caplin shows you how to stretch your creative boundaries. Taking the same tried-and-tested practical approach as his best selling “How to Cheat in Photoshop” titles, Steve’s step-by-step instructions recreate a dazzling and diverse array of fabulous design effects. You’ll learn how to design everything from wine labels to sushi cartons, from certificates to iPod advertising, from textbooks to pulp fiction.Written by a working pro, the clear guidelines pinpoint exactly what you need to know: how to get slick-looking results with minimum fuss, with a 16-page Photoshop Reference chapter that provides an at-a-glance guide to Photoshop tools and techniques for less experienced users. Steve explains both typography and the design process in a clear, informative and entertaining way.All the images, textures and fonts used in the book are supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM. Imaginative, inspirational and fun to use, this book is a must-have for every creative Photoshop user, both amateur and professional. Learn to quickly and ingeniously create fantastic graphic effects in Photoshop, from graffiti to classic art, newsprint and stained-glass windows. This book is easy and fun to use with clear step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots. It is backwards compatible: fully up-to-date with the latest Photoshop release but also relevant for use with previous versions of Photoshop.

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Bryan Talbot’s most recent book, “Alice in Sunderland”, was hailed by the “Guardian” as one of the ten best graphic novels ever and acclaimed by critics all over the world. Before that, at the start of his career, he created the first ever steampunk graphic novel, “The Adventures of Luther Arkwright”. In “Grandville” Talbot brings us another steampunk masterpiece. Inspired by the work of the nineteenth-century French illustrator Gerard, who worked under the pseudonym ‘Grandville’ and frequently drew anthropomorphic animal characters, it tells the story of detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard as he stalks a gang of murderers through the heart of Belle Epoque Paris. In this alternative reality France is the major world power and its capital is thronged with steam-driven hansom cabs, automatons and flying machines. The characters are mostly animals, though there is an underclass of humans, often referred to as ‘dough faces’, who resemble the ‘clear-line’ characters of Herge’s “Tintin” books. Visually stunning, “Grandville” is a fantastical and audacious rollercoaster ride that will add to Talbot’s reputation as one of the best graphic novelists in the world.

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Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love. The contributors include: Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the “Corine Solomon” series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the “Jax” series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as “Ava Gray from Berkley”), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (“Razorland and Wireville” coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends). Tessa Gratton, her debut novel “Blood Magic” arrives in 2011 from Random House Children’s Books, followed by the companion “Crow Magic” in 2012. Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of “Magic Under Glass” from Bloomsbury USA. Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of “Wondrous Strange and Darklight”, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.Frewin Jones is the bestselling author of the “Faerie Path” series and the “Warrior Princess” books, among many others. Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the “Iron Codex” trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure. Dru Pagliassotti’s first novel “Clockwork Heart” was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by “Library Journal” as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009. Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed “YA Bleeding Violet”. Michael Scott is the Irish-born, “New York Times” bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”. Maria V. Snyder is the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Study” series (“Poison Study”, “Magic Study”, and “Fire Study”) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster. Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed “YA” dark fantasy series “Hallowmere”, which was an IndieBound Children’s Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008. Kiersten White is the debut author of “Paranormalacy”, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.Adrienne Kress, is the author of “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman” and “Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate”.

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Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love. The contributors include: Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the “Corine Solomon” series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the “Jax” series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as “Ava Gray from Berkley”), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (“Razorland and Wireville” coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends). Tessa Gratton, her debut novel “Blood Magic” arrives in 2011 from Random House Children’s Books, followed by the companion “Crow Magic” in 2012. Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of “Magic Under Glass” from Bloomsbury USA. Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of “Wondrous Strange and Darklight”, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.Frewin Jones is the bestselling author of the “Faerie Path” series and the “Warrior Princess” books, among many others. Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the “Iron Codex” trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure. Dru Pagliassotti’s first novel “Clockwork Heart” was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by “Library Journal” as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009. Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed “YA Bleeding Violet”. Michael Scott is the Irish-born, “New York Times” bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”. Maria V. Snyder is the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Study” series (“Poison Study”, “Magic Study”, and “Fire Study”) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster. Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed “YA” dark fantasy series “Hallowmere”, which was an IndieBound Children’s Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008. Kiersten White is the debut author of “Paranormalacy”, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.Adrienne Kress, is the author of “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman” and “Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate”.

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Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love. The contributors include: Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the “Corine Solomon” series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the “Jax” series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as “Ava Gray from Berkley”), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (“Razorland and Wireville” coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends). Tessa Gratton, her debut novel “Blood Magic” arrives in 2011 from Random House Children’s Books, followed by the companion “Crow Magic” in 2012. Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of “Magic Under Glass” from Bloomsbury USA. Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of “Wondrous Strange and Darklight”, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.Frewin Jones is the bestselling author of the “Faerie Path” series and the “Warrior Princess” books, among many others. Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the “Iron Codex” trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure. Dru Pagliassotti’s first novel “Clockwork Heart” was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by “Library Journal” as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009. Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed “YA Bleeding Violet”. Michael Scott is the Irish-born, “New York Times” bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”. Maria V. Snyder is the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Study” series (“Poison Study”, “Magic Study”, and “Fire Study”) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster. Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed “YA” dark fantasy series “Hallowmere”, which was an IndieBound Children’s Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008. Kiersten White is the debut author of “Paranormalacy”, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.Adrienne Kress, is the author of “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman” and “Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate”.

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Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love. The contributors include: Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the “Corine Solomon” series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the “Jax” series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as “Ava Gray from Berkley”), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (“Razorland and Wireville” coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends). Tessa Gratton, her debut novel “Blood Magic” arrives in 2011 from Random House Children’s Books, followed by the companion “Crow Magic” in 2012. Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of “Magic Under Glass” from Bloomsbury USA. Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of “Wondrous Strange and Darklight”, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.Frewin Jones is the bestselling author of the “Faerie Path” series and the “Warrior Princess” books, among many others. Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the “Iron Codex” trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure. Dru Pagliassotti’s first novel “Clockwork Heart” was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by “Library Journal” as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009. Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed “YA Bleeding Violet”. Michael Scott is the Irish-born, “New York Times” bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”. Maria V. Snyder is the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Study” series (“Poison Study”, “Magic Study”, and “Fire Study”) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster. Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed “YA” dark fantasy series “Hallowmere”, which was an IndieBound Children’s Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008. Kiersten White is the debut author of “Paranormalacy”, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.Adrienne Kress, is the author of “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman” and “Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate”.

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Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love. The contributors include: Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the “Corine Solomon” series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the “Jax” series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as “Ava Gray from Berkley”), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (“Razorland and Wireville” coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends). Tessa Gratton, her debut novel “Blood Magic” arrives in 2011 from Random House Children’s Books, followed by the companion “Crow Magic” in 2012. Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of “Magic Under Glass” from Bloomsbury USA. Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of “Wondrous Strange and Darklight”, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.Frewin Jones is the bestselling author of the “Faerie Path” series and the “Warrior Princess” books, among many others. Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the “Iron Codex” trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure. Dru Pagliassotti’s first novel “Clockwork Heart” was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by “Library Journal” as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009. Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed “YA Bleeding Violet”. Michael Scott is the Irish-born, “New York Times” bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”. Maria V. Snyder is the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Study” series (“Poison Study”, “Magic Study”, and “Fire Study”) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster. Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed “YA” dark fantasy series “Hallowmere”, which was an IndieBound Children’s Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008. Kiersten White is the debut author of “Paranormalacy”, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.Adrienne Kress, is the author of “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman” and “Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate”.

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Meljean Brook, “The New York Times” bestselling author of “The Iron Duke” and “Heart of Steel” returns to the Iron Seas with a riveting new adventure of steampunk and passionate romance…A century after a devastating volcanic eruption forced Iceland’s inhabitants to abandon its shores, the island is enshrouded in legend. Fishermen tell tales of giant trolls guarding the land, and of seductive witches who steal men’s hearts. But the truth behind the legends is mechanical, not magic – and the mystery of the island a matter of life and death for a community of women who once spilled noble blood to secure their freedom. Five years ago, Annika unwittingly endangered that secret, but her sister Kalla took the blame and was exiled. Now Annika serves on the airship Phateon, flying from port to port in search of her sister, and longing to return home …but that home is threatened when expedition leader David Kentewess comes aboard. Determined to solve the mystery of his own origin, David will stop at nothing to expose Annika’s secrets.But when disaster strikes, leaving David and Annika stranded on a glacier and pursued by a madman, their very survival depends on keeping the heat rising between them – and generating lots of steam…”Riveted” by Meljean Brook is steampunk romance at its very best …and steamiest. Praise for Meljean Brook: “A stunning blend of steampunk setting and poignant romance – smart, sexy, breathtaking, and downright addicting”. (Ilona Andrews). “Meljean Brook has brilliantly defined the new genre of steampunk romance”. (Jayne Ann Krentz). Meljean Brook lives in Oregon with her family. She is the author of the “Iron Seas “steampunk series, which include “The Iron Duke” and “Heart of Steel”, and are also published by Penguin. For more information and “Iron Seas” extras, please visit the website.

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