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Cherie Priest created the series as a literary magnum opus for [[Steampunk]] fans. So far she has written four novels; ''Boneshaker'', ''Dreadnought'', ''Clementine'' and ''Ganymede'', and a novelette ''Tanglefoot'' which [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2008/fiction-tanglefoot-a-story-of-the-clockwork-century-by-cherie-priest/ can be read on-line]. Another novel, ''The Inexplicables'', is on the way.

* [[Deadly Gas]]: The Blight.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Briar Wilkes ''and'' her son Zeke; it seems to run in the family.

* [[Drill Tank]]: Dr Blue's "Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine" or "Boneshaker", designed to drill through the Alaskan ice to mine gold for the Russian government. {{spoiler|Instead Blue uses it to rob Seattle's underground bank vaults of over three million dollars worth of gold.}} Unfortunately we never actually see the device in action.

{{quote|It would be the greatest mining vehicle ever constructed: fifty feet long and fully mechanized, powered by compressed steam. It would boast three primary drilling and cutting heads, positioned at the front of the craft; and a system of spiral shoveling devices mounted along the back and sides would scoop the bored-through ice, rocks, or earth back out of the drilling path. Carefully weighted and meticulously reinforced, this machine could drill in an almost perfect vertical or horizontal path, depending on the whims of the man in the driver’s seat. Its precision would be unprecedented, and its power would set the standard for all such devices to come.}}