"Oh, for the love of the Virgin," Raúl muttered under his breath. Fernando, at his side, looked more than passing amused. The young man in front of him flushed with anger and repeated, "You're Raúl González, aren't you?"

He was loud enough to attract the attention of the crowds passing by; heads turned, as a murmur ran down the street.

"I am," Raúl said, with a credible veneer of patience. "And you?"

The young man – still a boy, really – looked as though he hadn't expected that. He rallied, and declared with self-conscious zeal, "My name isn't important. I speak for the nameless of this city, those of ability overlooked by the hierarchies of your beloved Institución – "

Patrick Jane is only human.

She'd laid out the process before ever setting foot on an airship. Reality was not so beautifully efficient.

A comment in the recent batch of Tor blog posts on steampunk made me reflect on the insistence of one significant faction that steampunk must focus on the mechanical, not the electrical.

As though they were separate. As though the 19th C European technological types weren't all over electricity, and, in fact, magic.

Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories will be published by Torquere Press in December 2010

Sequel to the story Bright Wings (you might want to read that first. No worries, it's much shorter)
Politics in the City throw the crew into danger. New friends, and new enemies, and promises kept.

Sheppard and his crew salvage artifacts from the depths of the sunken city of Atlantis. They find a weapon that could change the course of Empires. City-State AU.

Holmes takes a case that leads him into contact with Countess Ada Lovelace and direct conflict with a controversial but well-placed officer of His Majesty's Aery, to Scotland and back to London via the skies above.

Steampunk AU complete with airships, gaslight, Victorian costume fantasies, and clockwork… everything. Ruby and Jo have to save the world. Probably.

Steampunk Beyond Britain

Fragments of Chronicles from South East Asia as It Might Have Been

Perfectly in the spirit of the soure.

tag wrangler rpf. <3

steampunk bugs

Doom brings Steve back from the dead. Hijinks ensue, some of which might vaugely be considered plot. Surprisingly, this isn't actually crack-fic -- it's just Marvel.
[Novel-length post-Civil War fixit cowritten with [info]seanchai. Captain America/Iron Man]

Pa had been born with wandering feet. He had moved the family all around - Wisconsin to Kansas and back again, and then to Minnesota. But it wasn't enough. Pa talked with Ma and Ma talked with Pa. The grasshoppers had driven them away from Plum Creek. They could go further West or they could just go further...to the Moon.

Inspired by the steampunk AU I'm working on and [info]phoenixfire_lia's insistence that roboporns were needed. (Be assured that photos and Boostle porns are not far behind. ...

A chapter from a non-existent Atlantis steampunk AU with zeppelins and giant mechanical spiders. No, really.
Rating: PG
Timeline: Completely AU
Completed: 2008/04
Length: 5,500 words

an LJ with a very cool exploration log of a very strange place