In an attempt to familiarize myself with Steampunk and Horror a little more I picked up this book that I'd never heard of before by an author I had never heard of before. It's a steampunk, action, adventure "family" novel akin to riding a roller coaster. Oh, it also has Zombies:

But anyway, if you're done watching that video, I highly recommend this book. It has a slow start, and while I'm not a huge fan of the prologue or epilogue, when you get to the character driven bits you'll enjoy it through and through. There were times when I felt like I was playing left for dead, so you have to see I'm giving this book high praise.

Here's a little more about it in case you're interested. It takes place shortly after when the Civil War should have ended, but didn't. Supposedly a couple different things happened historically, one of which was Russia kicking of the Klondike Gold Rush several decades earlier than it initially happened. As a result, a competition was held to see who could build a machine to drill through several hundred feet of ice. Enter (and exit) Dr. Blue, who destroys Seattle on the test run of the great machine.

If only the trouble ended there, but apparently he hit a huge pocket of deadly zombie gas that killed whoever breathed it in and turned some of them into Zombies. Those who survived the cataclysm, escaped the city and built a wall around it.

Skip to present day book time. The wife of Dr. Blue lives on the outskirts, but her son runs away to go learn about his past. He runs into the old zombie infested city and Briar has to fly in via airship and I'm not going to tell you much more because I don't want to ruin it.

Suffice to say it has drug addicts, indian princesses, steampunk tech, air ships, air pirates, zombies, gun toting women and a host of lovable and hatable characters in addition. It gets a bit gory, but what zombie story doesn't?

Highly recommend you pick up a copy of this new book: