Just got back from a long flight which seems to be my best time for reading. I highly recommend "Boneshaker", a fine steam novel.
It's the 1880's Seattle. The ACW is still going, there's airships, tunneling machines, Chinamen, a mad scientist, and zombies. It's a crazy mix done in a good rousing way and the author manages to create a pretty consistent setting -- pulpy and vsf-ish without getting magicy.
Well worth a read.
Zeb Cook