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I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.


Clyde Tombaugh


#engineer #engines #father #guess #i

Age, like wealth is but a mental abstraction, my boy"~ Herr Doktor Pavel


K.W. Jeter


#age

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.


Timothy Zahn


#any #first #fork #i #into

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.


Townsend Harris


#days #eighteen #go #japan #means

But there was nothing. No village or town as far as her eyes could strain. Nowhere for her saviours to come from and take her to; just fields and trees and the weeping arc of the river Greave all the way to the horizon. Just like in the books, Greaveburn was all there was; building and building until streets were foundations, roofs were floors, constantly climbing away from itself. now that Abrasia saw it, her dream of escape crumbled completely like an ancient map in her fingers. The horizon was the world's edge and there was nothing beyond it but mist and falling. Greaveburn stood alone on this little circle of earth, the river running around and into itself like a snake eating its tail. And Abrasia was doomed to watch the sun and stars trade places for all eternity.


Craig Hallam


#city #gothic #greave #greaveburn #river

I’d rather fake my own fog, than fake a steamy love scene. Can I interest you in some mist? It’s homemade.



Jarod Kintz


#fog #food #homemade #love #love-scene

I am tempted to incapacitate him with the hemlock and then castrate him.” Lena paled. “I don’t think that would be very wise,” she said. “And the only knife we own is what I use for the cooking. You’re not using that.” “I was planning on using a spoon,” Honoria replied.


Bec McMaster


#steampunk #wicked #humor

Many great things have been accomplished by the careful combination of keen minds and ardent spirits.


G.D. Falksen


#sicence-fiction #steampunk #inspirational

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama


Gail Carriger


#love

Faster's always better, but you have to mind those curves. They're wicked. They can kill a man in a heartbeat.


J.C. Reed


#lust #romance #sex #steamy #love