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ロンドン＊トレジャーハント＆ロンドンからの小さな旅
楠本まき
バラッド　／　ラメント
マギー・スティーフベーター
Etiquette & Espionage
Gail Carriger
アレクシア女史、倫敦で吸血鬼と戦う
ゲイル・キャリガー

1000 Steampunk Creations

1000 Steampunk Creations

Dr. Grymm

和書：
『スチームパンク造形作品1000』

Steampunk is a burgeoning counter-cultural movement; a genre, community, and artform. The Steampunk movement seeks to recapture the spirit of invention, adventure, and craftsmanship reminiscent of earlynineteenth century industrialization, in part, to restore a sense of wonder to a technology-jaded world. Packed with 1,000 color photographs, 1,000 Steampunk Creations features a showcase of stunning jewelry, fashion, accessories, headgear, artwork, home decorations, and curious contraptions.



スチーム＝蒸気を動力にするハイテク機械装置、真鍮や歯車を多用したメカ・ジェット、銃を手に戦うアビエイター・・・
19世紀はじめの産業革命時に基づく「懐かしき未来世界」に焦がれるファンたちの、1000もの造形作品コレクション集。

スチームパンクの作品集。

Dearly, Departed

Dearly, Departed

Lia Habel

Love can never die.

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead―or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie? 

The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria―a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible―until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses. 

But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead―and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.

In Dearly, Departed, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.

近未来設定でヴィクトリアンになってるっていうツボ設定が舞台のundeadロマンスもの。

The Parasol Protectorate

The Parasol Protectorate

Gail Carriger

1. Soulless
2. Blameless
3. Changeless
4. Blameless
5. Heartless
6. Timeless

翻訳版：

1. アレクシア女史、倫敦で吸血鬼と戦う
2. アレクシア女史、飛行船で人狼城を訪う

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. 

Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. 

With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?

SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.

19世紀イギリス、人類が吸血鬼や人狼らと共存する変革と技術の時代。さる舞踏会の夜、われらが主人公アレクシア・タラボッティ嬢は偶然にも吸血鬼を刺殺してしまう。その特殊能力ゆえ、彼女は異界管理局の人狼捜査官マコン卿の取り調べを受けることに。しかしやがて事件は、はぐれ吸血鬼や人狼の連続失踪に結びつく――ヴィクトリア朝の歴史情緒とユーモアにみちた、新世紀のスチームパンク・ブームを導く冒険譚

表紙に一目惚れして気になってたThe Parasol Protectorateシリーズ。

スチームパンクです。英国です。ヴァンパイアとか出て来ます。

それだけで気になりまくる作品。

５冊目のTimelessは2012年出版予定。