Bonus Goliath Chapter and Art!

Posted on by scott

A bonus chapter, you say? What? Why?

Here’s how this came about. While reading a multitude of fan reviews of Goliath, the last book in the Leviathan trilogy, I noted a common theme. Many of you felt as though there was just one more illustration you wanted to see.

After all, we’ve all spent a quarter-million words and 160 illustrations with the crew of the Leviathan. Letting go isn’t easy. So I thought it would be fun to commission one last piece of art from Keith, as a sort of Hanukwanzamas present to you all.

Yes, The Manual of Aeronautics comes out next year (August 21), full of deck plans, cutaways, beasties, uniforms, etc. But that’s not the same as the characters doing stuff.

Of course, what image Keith should draw was a matter of debate. Deryn at last wearing a dress? A close-up version of the final kiss? Bovril doing pretty much anything?

So I decided to hold a vote, here on this post called “One Last Piece of Art”, and there was much enthusiasm. A bit more than 1200 comments’ worth of enthusiasm, in fact.

I have read your comments and run them through a complex algorithm, and Keith came up with a wonderful piece of bonus art. And yet this still didn’t seem like enough to repay all your enthusiasm for the series. On top of that, Keith’s new illustration was quite evocative, and made me wonder exactly what was going on.

So I decided to write a piece of fan fiction to go with it. This turned out to be more than 3,000 words, longer than most of the chapters in the series, because writing those characters again was a total blast. I’d almost forgotten!

I am sorry to say, though, that this chapter and Keith’s piece are bumping Fan Art Friday till next week. But there’s some really awesome fan art (by real fans!) coming up then. And early next week, I’ll be posting the winners of the concluded Show Us Your Steampunk contest that’s been happening over on FaceBook.

But for now, at long last, here is the secret last chapter of Goliath. (Well, it’s really more fan fic than a long-lost chapter. It’s full of fan service and cross-dressing and all sorts of shippy stuff. And yet: By my authorial authority, I DECLARE IT CANONICAL.)

One piece of advice, don’t look at Keith’s lovely illustration until you get to the end. IT HAZ SPOILERS! So I hid the image way down there below the text.

Enjoy.

“This is a preposterous situation,” Alek said.

“One for which you have only yourself to blame.” Count Volger reclined on the hotel room’s purple velvet divan, a smirk on his face. “I told you not to take that wager.”

“It was a matter of principle.”

“Ah, young prince—or ‘Mr. Hohenberg,’ if you insist—will you never learn that there are no principles when it comes to a show of arms? Only brute strength.”

Alek turned from the mirror to give the wildcount a cool glance. “A show of arms? Very droll.” He sighed. “But I really didn’t think she would best me.”

“Miss Sharp did spend several months climbing about the on ratlines. It does wonders for the muscles, I’m sure.”

Alek nodded, rubbing his still sore right bicep. It certainly had been a battle. A show of arms, indeed! One moment, he and Deryn had been having a perfectly reasonable discussion on the merits of the two sexes—strength, endurance, tolerance of pain—and then suddenly he had said something unforgivable and Deryn was challenging him to an arm-wrestling contest.

Losing to her wouldn’t have been so bad—she was Deryn Sharp, after all—but Alek had gone and made this idiotic wager.

If only this New Year’s Eve party hadn’t been fancy dress. What was it with the British and their love of costumes? The entire staff of the London Zoological Society has been buzzing for days about what they would wear. Most were going as beasties, of course, or great boffins of history, or modern-day buffoons such as politicians and clerics of the Monkey Luddite stripe. Others were sticking with classical costumes: angels, devils, ancient Greeks, or fairies of the wood.

New as they were to the Society, both he and Deryn had been anxious as to what they should wear. (And to Alek, frankly, the whole fancy dress thing seemed a bit common, even if he had foresworn his royal heritage.) So an arm-wrestling contest had seemed like a brilliant way to settle the matter for at least one of them. As Volger kept reminding him, the terms had been entirely Alek’s idea.

It might’ve been most amusing, if only he hadn’t lost. Then it would have been Deryn wearing a dress and not he. He had to admit, much of the motivation for his rash wager had been his own curiosity. What would Deryn look like in the proper clothing of her own gender?

Not that he minded seeing her in a jacket and trousers every day. It was part of the frisson of their romance, that he knew something about her that only a handful of others did. But still, he was as curious as any boy would be in these circumstances.

“Is this bustle in the right place?” he asked.

Count Volger snorted a little. “There’s only one place for a bustle, Alek. And that’s it.”

“Doesn’t it seem . . . unnecessarily large to you?”

“A question women have been asking for decades, I’m sure.”

“Don’t be impertinent, Count. I meant the bustle.” Alek straightened the bows that positively covered the dress. “And I wouldn’t be so ready to mock others if I were dressed up as a message lizard!”

Count Volger regarded the papier-mâché lizard snout sitting next to him on the divan. Then with a shrug he lifted the mask and placed it on his head. It was painted a mottled brown with green highlights, matching the colors of an Air Service message lizard perfectly. The count’s face peeked out from between the jaws of the monstrous head-gear.

“One must always be ready to mock, Your No-Longer-Serene Highness.” Volger raised his glass, maneuvered it between the jaws, and took a sip. “Otherwise, politics becomes unbearable.”

Alek took a closer look at the wildcount. His cheeks were a little ruddy, and the champagne bottle beside the divan looked suspiciously depleted.

“Are you drunk, count?”

Volger laughed at this, then took another sip. “It is New Year’s Eve, Mr. Hohenberg, and in order to curry favor with the world’s most mysterious organization, I am costumed as the most disquieting creature in the history of fabrication. Given that I am about to throw myself into a party full of boffins and secret agents, I would not call myself drunk—merely fortified.”

“Indeed.” Alek turned back to the mirror, wondering how much more fortified Count Volger was planning on getting tonight.

Ever since Alek had joined the Zoological Society, the wildcount hadn’t known what to do with himself. The war was winding down, the Kaiser realizing that his enemies were too numerous now that the US had joined in. There was talk of a peace conference in the early months of 1915, one that would end the battle between Darwinism and Clankers forever, or at least reduce it from a world-wide bloodbath to a healthy competition of technologies.

With no war to influence and no young prince to raise to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Volger’s two purposes in life had suddenly disappeared. The Austrians would remember that he had snatched away their young heir, so going home might be tricky, and Britain was too full of godless beasties for him to stay here.

And yet . . .

“Curry favor?” Alek asked, picking up the parasol that Deryn had picked out for him. It matched the color of the dress, at least. “Why do you care what the Zoologial Society thinks of you, given what you think of them?”

“I might have need for their expertise in the future.” The count sounded quite sober now. “I have a great love of nature, you know, and one day there will be a struggle between natural creatures and those fabrications who escape out into the wild. The Society may be able to help in that.”

Alek raised an eyebrow. He’d never thought of Volger as a preservationist, given that the man had shot at least two hundred stags with Alek’s father, the archduke. Of course, there had been vast tracks of wilderness in the heart of Europe back when Volger was a young man collecting hunting trophies. There was not so much wild left anymore.

“I’ve heard of that happening,” Alek said. “Parrot frogs running rampant in Australia and such, chattering in those funny accents. It does seem unsettling.”

“Not as unsettling as those heels,” Volger said, the seriousness of a moment before forgotten. “But a bet is a bet, Mr. Hohenberg.”

The New Year’s Eve party of the Zoological Society of London was downstairs from Alek’s room, in the main ballroom of the Savoy Hotel. Alek was surprised, and a bit alarmed, to see how many people were in attendance. He had assumed that the audience for his humiliation would be limited to members of the Society proper—a dozen boffins and perhaps twice that many animal trainers and handlers. But the great ballroom was nearly full, with the Society’s patrons, political supporters, and special agents like him and Deryn all in attendance, along with their spouses, guests, and various hangers-on.

“Oh dear,” Alek said.

“Indeed,” Volger muttered through the jaws of his lizard head. “Perhaps you should have worn a mask.”

“That would have been cheating.” Alek took a fortifying breath, shouldered his parasol as if it were a rifle, then headed down into the crowd.

He felt conspicuous and absurd, and wobbly on his heeled shoes, but somehow the entire room didn’t seem to be staring at him. In an odd way, his costume was relatively tame. There were too many elaborate fabricated creatures about for one young man in a dress to cause a stir. The Society’s aging director, Dr. Spencer, had an entire Huxley Ascender hovering above him, devised from some sort of painted mesh thrown over a cloud of toy balloons. The director nodded at Alek and Volger and started to come toward them, but then realized that his floating Huxley was caught on a chandelier. Several assistants rushed forward to help him disentangle the costume. Alek pulled the wildcount into a hasty retreat, just in case the balloons were full of hydrogen instead of helium.

He scanned the crowd for Deryn. It was best to get the revelation of his costume over with as quickly as possible. He wondered what she had chosen to wear, and hoped that it didn’t include a mask. The thought of her seeing him dressed this way was annoying enough, without her spying on him from across the room and giggling to herself.

“Alek?” came a voice from the crowd. “Good heavens, is that the count with you?”

Alek turned and bowed. “Good heavens, indeed, Dr. Barlow.”

The lady boffin was dressed as an avenging angel, with large feathered wings and a wooden sword painted sliver. She looked appropriately terrifying. Tazza, as always at her side, had a tin foil halo on his head.

Dr. Barlow eyed Alek up and down. “Perhaps a curtsey would have been more appropriate.”

“Alas, my dancing master was never so kind as to teach me how.”

“I’m sure Mr. Sharp could help.”

The loris on her shoulder, who was dressed as a cherub, chuckled and said, “Mister Sharp.”

Alek gave them both a hard look. Dr. Barlow was the only other member of the Zoological Society who knew Deryn’s secret. It seemed unwise of her to make light of it, however subtly, in a room crowded with their colleagues.

“I should think not,” Volger said. “Mr. Sharp is far too manly to know such things.”

Dr. Barlow’s eyes widened. “The lizard speaks!”

“The lizard only repeats what he is told,” Volger said, tapping his ear. He extended his hand. “Would you care to dance, doctor?”

“Of course. One so rarely has an opportunity to dance with a reptile.” She nodded at Alek. “Good evening, Mr. Hohenberg.”

The two swirled off toward the dance floor, Tazza padding behind them after Alek gave him a pat on the head.

Now, where was Deryn? She had always been early to any party back on the Leviathan. No doubt she was hidden behind a mask somewhere, watching Alek twirl his parasol and mince about in these heels.

As Alek scanned the crowd, a strange apparition appeared before him. It had a bird-like head, and a shaggy yellow pelt and huge, cat-like claws.

“Is that you, Dylan?” he asked.

“I am not a bellman,” the beaked head said in a familiar voice, then the clawed hands reached up and lifted the mask. “I am a mighty gryphon!”

Alek took an involuntary step back. Beneath the eagle head was Adela Rogers, the young American reporter who had joined the Leviathan‘s journey in California. But what was she doing in London, and what was any reporter doing at a private function of the Society? Especially one at which Alek happened to be wearing a dress.

At least she wasn’t one of those reporters who always carried a camera, like the insufferable Eddie Malone.

“I trust you recognize me now, Prince Aleksandar.”

“Indeed, Miss Rogers. Though I’m afraid I am no longer a prince.”

“Ah, of course. Mr. Hohenberg, isn’t it?”

“At your service.” Alek attempted a curtsy, but failed completely.

The reporter smiled. “Not much of a mister this evening, I see.”

Alak shrugged. “A fancy dress party has its share of indignities, I suppose. But now that I am no longer royalty, perhaps a bit of humility is in order.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t say that dress is humiliating, Mr. Hohenberg. On the contrary, it’s quite flattering.”

“Thank you.” Alek bowed this time. It felt more natural, even with a bustle as a conspicuous counterweight to the maneuver.

For a moment, he wondered at all the adjustments, small and large, that Deryn must have made in order to carry off her deception. The way she walked, talked, and stood, along with every social nuance, all of it had to be considered every second of every day. It was incredible to have succeeded at something so difficult, with only her brother Jaspert and her own observations of humanity to guide her.

Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for.

“But if I may ask a question.” Miss Rogers produced a notepad. “Who exactly are you meant to be?”

“Ah.” Alek swallowed. After the agony of his arm-wrestling defeat and amid all the palaver of finding a dress to wear, he had failed to take the question of his costume any further. He could hardly tell this reporter that he had lost a bet, and the thought that she would write in her newspaper that he had attended a party dressed simply as a woman was somehow unsettling.

He wracked his mind for an answer, and one came.

“I am dressed as one of the great Clanker boffins of the last century,” he said. “Ada, Countess of Lovelace.”

Miss Rogers looked perplexed for a moment. “I’m not sure I recall this countess. She was a Clanker boffin, you say? But the name sounds very English.”

“She was. And yet her work is at the core of every mechanical analytic engine. The balance system of my own Stormwalker, for example.” As he said the words, Alek’s hands clenched imaginary saunters. It really had been too long since he had piloted a walker. He hoped his and Deryn’s first mission for the Society was in a Clanker nation, where he might get a chance to.

“I see.” Miss Rogers’ pencil was scribbling. “Like you, she was able to cross battle lines. A subject of the queen, but a Clanker. A woman, but a scientist.”

Alek bowed, relieved to have stumbled upon so apt a choice. “Just as I was born a royal and a Clanker, and yet stand before you a common Darwinist.”

She smiled. “And a boy in a dress. I think I’m finally beginning to understand you, Mr. Hohenberg.”

“How do you mean?”

“Well, you must know that many are perplexed by your choice of employers.” She glanced about the room, at all the costumed beasts, grotesques, and monstrosities. “It seems an odd avocation to trade an empire for. In fact, that’s why I’m here in London. To do some follow up.”

Alek raised an eyebrow. “You mean, to spy on me.”

“You might say that,” Miss Rogers said with another smile. “It seems to me that something’s missing in the story of Prince Aleksandar of Hohenberg, who traded his crown for a post as a zookeeper. Surely there’s something you’re not telling us about the Society. Or perhaps about yourself?”

Alek shrugged, and twirled his parasol.

“I shall be watching you, Mr. Hohenberg.”

“It will be my pleasure to be watched, I’m sure,” Alek said, bowing again. “But if you will excuse me.”

He headed off into the crowd without waiting for an answer, because near the giant ice sculpture of Charles Darwin taming a lupine tigeresque, he had seen a blond head bobbing above the costumed masses. It was definitely Deryn, and she wasn’t wearing a mask.

Of course, Deryn wore a mask every day, her disguise as a boy a constant in her life. By all rights, she should be able to show up at a fancy dress party in nothing more than her usual trousers and jacket.

Of course, making a point of such behavior would somewhat spoil her secret.

Alek pushed his way through the crowd, setting aside a Spring-Heeled Jack and an iron-headed Ned Kelly, the famous Outback bandit. Deryn’s blond hair flashed ahead of him again, but she was moving away. Had she seen him coming and decided to lead him on a chase?

Finally, though, the crowd parted, and he came face to face with Deryn Sharp. Alek froze when he saw her costume, a look of astonishment spreading on his face.

“But I . . . ,” he sputtered. “You won the contest, not me.”

“Aye, of course I did.” She made a muscle with her bicep. “But we never said the winner couldn’t wear what they wanted. And we reckoned you’d feel less awkward if you weren’t the only lad in a frock.”

Alek looked her up and down. Deryn was in the sort of evening dress that fashionable young women-about-town wore, with a fringed back and a broad belt high on her waist. Long beaded necklaces were draped around her neck, tucked into her belt or hanging to her thighs. Perched on her head was a close-fitting hat, a long fabricated peacock feather jutting almost straight back from it.

Alek looked down at his own dress, so formal and old-fashioned with its fussy bows and bustle. He suddenly felt frumpy, whereas Deryn was positively stylish. Her short hair and slim figure, the core of her disguise as a midshipman, no longer looked masculine at all.

He wondered if there would ever come a time when women wore their hair so short. Surely such a thing would never happen, but he had to admit that it looked quite fetching.

Then he realized what Deryn had said. “‘We’?”

“Aye, both of us.” She snapped her fingers, and Bovril waddled out from beneath the ice sculpture table.

Alek’s eye widened further. The perspicacious loris was in costume as well, in a backless dress that looked distinctly French. Indeed, the creature resembled a tiny Pierrot doll.

Bovril looked up at Alek, then said with a giggle, “Lad in a dress.”

Deryn shook her head. “Frankly, Alek, I thought you’d come up with something a bit more up-to-date.”

“You chose the parasol.” Alek twirled it. “I had to find a dress that matched!”

“Aye, but you’re not as fetching as I expected.” She tsped a few times. “Still, it’s nice to see you in something besides yours old Clanker gear. You really should be dressing up in new clothes, now that you aren’t a barking prince.”

Alek raised an eyebrow. “You mean, you would have been happy with a new jacket? You might have said.”

“Aye. Anything that doesn’t look like an old cavalry uniform!”

Alek sighed. Since renouncing the throne, he had no money to speak of, only the small income the Society provided. He doubted his granduncle the Emperor would be sending him an allowance anytime soon. So all he had to wear were his Hapsburg Guard uniforms and the formal wear that Mr. Hearst had provided him. And, of course, a few things he’d bought in Istanbul, which were hardly suitable for London. The dress he had on now had been provided by a wife of one of the Society boffins, and not the youngest or most fashionable.

“I must say that you look stunning, though,” he offered with a bow.

“Aye. It’s not as bad as I remember, being stuffed into a dress.” Deryn extended her arm. “Shall we go?”

Alek knelt and snapped for Bovril, who leapt up into his grasp.

“Of course. But where?”

“There’s a wee changing room off to the side, where some of the boffins left their regular clothes. It’s locked up, but I’ve got the only key.” Deryn looked him up and down again. “And bottle of champagne, if you’re not too much a lady for a drink alone with a former sky sailor.”

“I assure you, Mr. Sharp,” Alek said. “I have no concerns about your intentions.”

“That’s good to hear, Mr. Hohenberg. For my intentions are clarity itself.” And then she was leading him away from the throng of monsters, beasts, and freaks, toward someplace private and safe. A place where it didn’t matter who was wearing what.

Bovril, riding on his shoulder, giggled one more time.

“Mister Hohenberg,” the creature said.

CLICK HERE for a bigger version!

Also, you can pre-order the first Uglies graphic novel, Shay’s Story, right now right here.

675 thoughts on “Bonus Goliath Chapter and Art!”

  7. Hah!!!! A double deal!!!!!!!!!!!! We all win. See, cause Bovril, Alek, & Deryn are in dresses! And Deryn and Alek are kissing up close! 🙂

  8. “One day there will be a struggle between natural creatures and those fabrications who escape out into the wild.”
    …
    Next book? 8]

    Also, this…
    “Dr. Spencer, had an entire Huxley Ascender hovering above him, devised from some sort of painted mesh thrown over a cloud of toy balloons.”
    Sounds familiar. XD

  9. Ouch, scott, ouch. Putting Adela here and not having Lilit show up? OUCH, MY HEART. I got so excited…
    But lovely ‘fanfic’ and GORGEOUS art. Great job to both of you!

  13. OH MY WORD!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS WORTH REFRESHING THE HOMEPAGE FOR!!!!!!!!!!! AGAIN….. AND AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just simply LOVE the unmistakable blush on Alek’s face!
    *sighs* She was worth trading an empire for.
    *sobs* Yes!!!!!!! Yes she is!!!!!!!!!!!!

  14. This picture and author-fic ROCKS THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!! Scott-la YOU ARE THE BEST AND MOST AWESOME AUTHOR EVER!!!!!! And you totally pay attention to your fans which RULES EVEN MORE!

  16. 😀 😀 😀 That is aweeeeeesoooomeeeeeee. Seriously awesome. XD I laughed the entire way through. Ending picture was perfect, too — I can’t believe how stylish Deryn looks! On the other hand, Alek is just awkward, haha. Seriously, you inspire me. That an author writes his own “fan” fiction is awesome.

  17. Hahahahaha! That was awesome! Thank you for the Christmas present, Keith and Scott! *champagne all around!*

    p.s. isn’t he ALEKSANDAR, though? 😉

  21. oh sorry Rachel (you posted it while i was typing) you rule I WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND!

  23. @ Sirius Black (formerly Ruth) 18- It’s okay to cry. * pats you on the back * They’ll always be in our hearts and our minds.

  24. @Scott-la, you should seriously look in to applieing for the job of Santa Clause, you know just what makes my uber HAPPY!!! *wipes tear from cheek* that fan-fic was BEAUTIFUL!

  26. More, more, more. Yes, Mr. Westerfeld. We may be a bottomless pit of want, and we will never be satisfied, but it’s for a good cause!

  31. In response to Rachel YES YES MORE!!! MORE… *trails off* keep filling our bottomless pit of want!!!

  41. That fanfic is so funny! I love it. Alek does look a bit awkward though… Hee hee! Its great to have another little leviathan story. And great picture too. A bit of everything: close up kiss, Bovril being funny, Alek AND Deryn in a dress, a bit of romance, a bit of Varlow, something for everybody 😉

  42. @ 41- Except Newkirk! But I can live with that, since I am feeling bubbly (heh heh. Get it? BUBBLY?) with happiness over DALEK fluffiness!

  43. I have to go to bed now *sobs uncontrollably* and i can’t take my computer (to dwell forever on the shear Dalekness of it all)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  46. That (relatively) small piece of author-fic was SOO worth the countless punches from my sister because i kept interrupting her game to check this SUPER AWESOME BLOG!

  47. Mr. Westerfeld, aren’t overcome with JOY and HAPPINESS of fulfilling many a fan’s dreams???? THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now all we need is a companion novel. Does this authorfic inspire you to write more? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Secret spy missions would be AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Adela will find out, sooner or later. It is just a matter of time.

  48. Yes. Just…yes. Every type of yes imaginable. There are not enough words to properly express my approval.

    Except maybe admitting that I squealed. Loudly.

  49. @Rachel-47, TOTALLY! And yes, the inert reporter in me is itching to ask the question that is on all of our minds; What does it feel like to bring Christmas early to all these ecstatic fans?

  51. @ 49- But WHEN she finds out, the question is, WHAT will she do????? * questionably looks at Mr. Westerfeld for answers *

  52. My parents are all like ” Well its good to see you interested in something” at this point I roll my eyes ” just don’t get to obsessed with it, alright?” and I am saying to myself, too late!

  56. YAY! It’s finally up!

    I thought it was fantastic, and I loved the Varlow… and everything else. Volger as a message lizard, haha

    I am really loving the Art Deco background on Keith’s picture though–it’s awesome.

  57. OI! Everyone who is closely following this comment thread; What day is is where you are?

  58. MADE MY LIFE MADE MY LIFE MADE MY LIFE

    Hahah, I literally pushed back from my desk doing the touchdown hand signal mouthing “DERYN IN A DRESS!” (if it wasn’t nearly 1AM I would have shouted it). That made me giggle more than Alek in a dress. And the illustration! It’s so gorgeous!

    I just can’t stop grinning at how awesome this is, I really can’t! Thank you guys so much!

  60. I just looked up what a bustle is “‘Is this bustle in the right place?’ he asked.” and i am almost cracking up (almost because my mom would kill me if i cracked up loud enough for my sis to wake up)

  62. I love how awkward Alek looks compared to how graceful Deryn looks. BTW that was NOT a diss on Alek, Alek rules almost as much as the highly creative mind that thought him up.

  63. Indeed!
    So at first I was like, really Alek in a dress?
    But you totally went with the combo AND crammed another historical reference (Ada Lovelace! Throughout the whole series I’ve been going when the reference to Ada going to pop up?)

    So happy!
    It’s so early in the morning. But I totally got my closure. Mucho Gracias, Scott and Keith. Well done.

  65. I have to go to bed now.. *chocks back a sob* I will see you tomorrow, my beautiful piece of author-fic…

  66. *continues weeping at the fact that she must be content with tearing her fingers off the keyboard and going to read Goliath. Again.*

  69. Other than the fact that I chewed my lip something awful reading that (your stories have a tendency to make me do that), it was far too fantastically fantastic to believe! Thank you!

  71. Wow, this was a great thing to find at 1:00am, but completely worth it!!!!!

    First of all, you still rock harder than any other author out there because you listen to your fans and give us what we want!!!!!! Everyone won and got something from the picture no matter what they voted for, Keith’s art is always great…AND….we got a bonus fanfic from the actual author!!!! This is amazing, such a treat to get a non-canon (but still kind of in the canon mindset) post-Goliath story.

    All turnouts of the characters are wonderful–as usual–and I love all the little hints you dropped about the Zoological society, because the book left it so ambiguous. I’m writing my own fanfic about post-Goliath stuff, but it’s obviously not the same as reading something from the actual author. I know any continuation of the novel series is kind of out right now (you’re busy with other projects, etc.), but it would be great to have these little fanfics pop up every once in a while, because this was certainly a treat, and it seems Deryn and Alek are still up for plenty of adventures in the near future (and plenty of “special times” in closets).

    Eh hem, well excuse me while I go read Leviathan through Goliath now.

    And, of course, thank you tons for creating this fanfic, thinking of the art, and creating the Leviathan world and characters in general, you’re beyond awesome! (and definately on my list of “inspirations” for my own stories).

    Your fan for life (yes, life), BlackRose108

  72. aww so cute!! Only you could write such excellent fan fiction Mr Westerfeld 🙂
    THANK YOU KEITH!!! your art is amazing!!

    Parrot frogs running rampant in Australia , FTW!!!

  74. Thank you for another cliff hanger, Mr. Westerfeld. Thank you for discontinuing the best thing that’s ever happened to me! I can’t help but smile everytime I think of your authorfiction, but IS IT REALLY THE LAST STORY OF OUR BELOVED CHARACTERS? PLEASE DON’T MAKE IT THE LAST!!!! And that is my Plead of the Day. Thank you, and good night.

  75. I don’t understand how you can be such an awesome person Scott-la. You are just…. awesome. Kieth’s illustration and your fanfic was so delicious I was going to cry.

    WE LOVE YOU.

  77. Shaking the entire story, screamed with fangirl joy when I saw the picture. I will print this uber huge and put it on my wall next to my bed. Putting it as thd PSP wallpaper. Scott-la, this is why you are my favorite/THE BEST author ever.

  79. But, but…..now I want to know more! I want to know if Volger stays sane with his new job or if he goes batty. I want to know if Alek and Deryn get married and have kids and what their names are. I want to know if Barlow and Volger get married (and have and kids.)

    I want to know so bad!!!

  80. So wait? Is she Dylan Sharp in a dress? Or just showing up to the party? Because maybe she could just blend in as some random girl, but if she going around as Mr. Sharp isn’t it rather obvious? #boobs

  81. I love it. I LOVE IT! haha
    I still think you should write about their adventures in the Society…but anyway great illustration and awesome secret chapter/authorfic 😀

  85. A sticky situation! I lent Goliath to a friend of mine ( who is also a relative of mine and a boy) and he forgot to give it back and now schools over so he can’t! If mum and dad notice its missing therell be some awkward explaining to do … Hope he posts it soon or something :/

  86. Hm, is no one else there blond? And YESSSS; all 4 in one. ;D

    Anyways, thank you Scott and Keith for coming up with one last piece of writing and art, respectively!! Scott, you have yet to cease to amaze me with your awesomesaustasticness!! Seriously, what kind of professional author spends this much time to interact this much with fans, take a look at fanart and fanfiction, read manga/watch anime, and even write a ‘fanfiction’ for his own series?!!

    Who’s awesome? You’re awesome! >:D

  87. I can’t even tgegyvb[;90uyg[097ybp[,Fyb9hkvbhfbsadhccbvjnvcjdh this is so wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  91. Oh I love this. So much. It also gave a few more ideas for the Christmas contest at one of your fanclubs on deviantART.com…hahaha!

    Also, you are one awesome author. Most authors probably wouldn’t do that (that is, write a fanfic for their own story involving ‘lads in a dress’) but you did! And Keith illustrated it! I am so unbelievably happy right now.

    And did anyone else catch the Varlow? 😉

  94. Ada Lovelace? I SAW WHAT YOU DID THERE, SCOTT.

    And also Spring Heeled Jack? I love that guy. And drunk Volger? YESSSSSSSSSSS

  95. It took me a while to build up the courage to look at the picture. The snort I let out when I did was rather unflattering. Note to self: refrain for viewing hilarious images in the school computer room.

    THANK-YOU SCOTT! THANK-YOU KEITH!!!! Couldn’t be happier 🙂 🙂 🙂

    … and now the wait for August 21.

  96. I LOVED THIS ONE BUT PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE DO ANOTHER ONE MORE MORE MORE MOOOORE!!!!!!!
    i know you love writing these, so just do it again DO IT!!!!

  97. I LOVED THIS ONE BUT PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE DO ANOTHER ONE MORE MORE MORE MOOOORE!!!!!!!
    MORE ALEK AND DERYN!!!!!!!!

  98. I SQUEALED SO MUCH!! VOLGER WAS DRUNK! ALEK, DERYN, AND BOVRIL WERE IN A DRESS! THERE WAS VARLOW! THE ART WAS PERFECT!!!! 😀 THANK YOU!!!! *glomps Scott and Keith and noms on their heads*

  99. OMBS!!! I would have been screaming but my sister was there glaring at me for not getting ready for school. Now she’s telling my we need to leave…goodbye!!! I shall sqeal more later… EEP!

  100. @ tridecagirl – I know! I totally smiled when I saw that. It fit in perfectly with the Leviathan universe and didn’t feel forced, but it was also a nice nod to those who have read Midnighters as well. Plus, I think Ada Lovelace is awesome.

  102. Volger dressed as a message lizard? XD I want to see that picture! Please Scott-La and Keith-La, make another one with volger’s lizard costume!
    I loved it so much! Deryn, Alek, and Bovril all wearing dresses together. That’s amazing!

  103. Mr. Westerfeld,

    Seriously, you are such an inspiration. Not only do you write awesome, creative novels with lovable and original characters, I love how you relate to your fans. I love that you actively take part in the fandom and listen to what your fans have to say. If I ever become a published author someday, and if by some miracle my books ever get fans, you will be my role model for how to act.

    It was already so sweet of you to arrange for Mr. Thompson to draw an extra piece of art for us, and now you wrote a story to go with it as well! It really is the best present you could have given your fans, and I love how much thought you obviously put into it to make sure that everyone would be happy, and also to make the story in-character and plausible. Despite how far-fetched the premise is, it didn’t feel out-of-character or forced at all, which is impressive. I never could have thought of a situation where Alek would wear a dress, yet you made it believable.

    As for the art, Mr. Thompson if you are reading this, it is absolutely gorgeous! I love all the period-accurate details you put into those clothes. Deryn looks absolutely amazing! I love that the dress isn’t too frilly and suits her personality. Alek looks awkward, which of course he should. And his blush is too cute!

  106. Dear Scott,
    I noticed how much fun you had writing about Dalek again, and as a Hannakwanzamas present to you, I and all the other fans will allow you to write a companion series. We just want you to be happy. Your welcome.
    -With a squeal of joy, Melissa

  108. I do believe there were more spoilers in that fanfic than someone who hasn’t read Goliath yet should have read. (Christmas can’t come soon enough!!!) But I still loved it! I’m going to miss Keith’s art.

  110. FINALLY!!! well played with the whole both of them in dresses at a party thing. I JUST LOVE HOW DERYNS ALL SEXY ANS ALEKS ALL….OLD LADY but its a cute look for him.

  111. Awesomeness at its finest. I had a feeling all of the choices would be done! The art and the piece to go with it! This has so much win! (plus it’s canon! Think of ALL the fanfiction to be made after that event!)

  112. How appropriate, to have Deryn dressed up in nearly flapper attire. A testament to the impending changing times, and a lovely way to maintain Deryn’s independent air while granting her femininity. And countering this with Alek’s almost overly effeminate and old-fashioned Victorian-esque presence and making a little (perhaps, but dubiously unintentional) commentary on the two sides that emerge over the issue of gender roles in the twenties…a subject that both Alek and Deryn shall certainly address in their future… Well done in deed, satisfying all parties. Well, save for those Lilit fans.
    Also, kawaii!!!!!!!!!
    X3

  115. Ahh soo Awesome!! Thankyou so much scott, you have succeeded in filling our dreams. . well, most of them.
    Hmm now if only we could have a companion nove. . . then everything would be rosy and perfect
    *hint hint 🙂

  116. Oh. My. God.

    THAT COMBINES IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Deryn in a dress, Alek in a dress, BOVRIL IN A DRESS!!!!!
    KISSING!!!!

    Plus a not-so-fanfic!!!!
    I honestly feel like screaming in joy:)

  117. @Scott-la. Really, it’s okay if you write a companion series. We won’t complain. Please understand that we only want to make you happy, and I hope that by writing the authorfic you realized how worthy these characters are of another series. Pull a John Flanagan and write 11 books and then go for a companion series! You know you want to…

  118. Huh. I seem to be in the minority here. Because I think that Alek actually looks quite fetching in a dress- really, the bustle is a little silly, but overall it’s quite flattering.
    But Deryn just looks wrong. WRONG I SAY.
    (Bovril, naturally, outstrips them all in fabulousness though, so it’s a moot point.)
    Alek shouldn’t be so complainy. At least in heels he’s nearly as tall as Deryn.

    Thank you, Scott and Keith!

  119. @Angie-80, I thought that to, I mean if no one but Varlow and Dalek know then why is she dressed like that?

  122. @Lue- Alrighty then. I suppose one COULD interpret Alek to be… what did you say… ah yes,”quite fetching in a dress”. Dispite the fact that he has no figure to speak of and that he is looking fairly gender-confused…

  124. @Scott-la, You are such a great author I love how you managed to have Volger as a message lizard and Dalek AND Bovirl in dresses *sighs* so good…

  125. @Lou – While of course part of the issue is that Deryn is, y’know, a girl, and thus looks more normal in a dress even if they’re not her usual attire, I think the bigger thing going on here is confidence.

    Deryn looks comfortable and confident in her dress. Alek is, as they say, letting the dress wear him instead of wearing the dress. Therefore, Deryn looks better in her dress than Alek does in his.

    Plus, Deryn’s dress is legitimately nicer than Alek’s 😉

  126. The picture and story….both amazing. But it’s not fair. You’ve given us a taste of the Zoological Society and now I’m hooked! I can’t help but want more!

  127. This is awesome. I had to admit I was a little skeptical at first with Alek being in a dress and all. But I will admit that I enjoyed this. The best part was, “Doesn’t it seem . . . unnecessarily large to you?” And Volger has to drink in order to deal with London society, LOL. Volger drunk and dressed as a lizard? So awesome. That’s one BA lizard!

  128. *turns into France from Hetalia* it’s me again!! I just read the last, like, paragraph and I just realized they’re all alone in a locked room~! OHOHOhOhOHOOHOOO SCOTT!!! YOU MAKE US FANS PROUD.

  129. It definitely seemed to get a bit lemony at the end. Something tells me that after entering the closet, neither of them would be wearing dresses for long. In fact, it was heavily implied.

  131. I was extremely anti-Alek-dress during the vote, and I did facepalm about a dozen times during the chapter. But it was really funny and good actually. I’m so glad you gave us more closure, especially on Volger, which I’m most thankful for. I really don’t know what to assume about the ending though… The picture was different, I think Deryn looks stranger than Alek! Also, what is design in the background supposed to be?

    Anyways, thanks for doing this and making people’s dreams come true!

  134. I see what you did there 😉

    you combined them all! 🙂 That was a beautiful chapter, and very VERY satisfying. Heehee. But Alek really IS hilarious, Deryn is beautiful/hot as ever, and I still will always love Bovril. And yay for the kiss! 😀

  135. @luanna-125, If i had thought about it for a while i would have come to same conclusion as you did.

  136. TEARS. WEEPING. WEEPING. TEARS. guys!!!!!! ITS OVER!!!!!!!!! THIS WAS OUR LAST PIECE OF DALEK!!!! seriously this is really sad. IT WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE EVERYONE IN A DRESS THOUGH!!!!!! but i still feel like i did when i read the last page of Goliath.

  137. I need to pick my jaw up from the floor… AWESOME!

    Lilit: So what were you saying about crossdressing, Alek?
    Alek: Shuddup!
    Bovril: *Giggles* MISS Ferdinand!

  138. There are no words to describe how amazing this is. Really, this is perfection. Thank you Scott, thank you sooooo much. 🙂

  140. Hmmm… All of them at once. Sketchy, but awesome! (P.S. great chapter! i know Volger and Dr Barlow were also in love!)

  141. This is awesome. I had to admit I was a little skeptical at first with Alek being in a dress and all. But I will admit that I enjoyed this. The best part was, “Doesn’t it seem . . . unnecessarily large to you?” And Volger has to drink in order to deal with London society, LOL. Volger drunk and dressed as a lizard? So awesome. That’s one BA lizard!

  143. All of the above it was! Haha, and I like Varlow for the fans. We’ll pretend she isn’t married.
    One of the most awkward, yet amazing, kisses ever!

    Deryn has a chest… xD I bet she is secretly happy.

  144. What about Varlow or Bolger? Or Dalek or Aryn? I like giving celebrity names to fave characters. They’re like celebrities to me.

    Speaking of celebrities, what about a Leviathan Movie? Movie producers would be daft bum-rags if they didn’t do one. Still, like harry Potter, the books would be WAY better than the movies.

    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😛 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  158. the minute i got up i took a shower right away so i could see if you posted AND YOU DID!!! my mom was super annoyed cuz i missed the bus reading so she had to drive me. i was late to fist period BUAT IT WAS WORTH IT!!!!! of course, i got bored in biology and drew my own version of Deryn wearing the same dress kissing ALek(only this time he was wearing a new jacket, not a dress) i may or may not send it in. depends on how well i ink and color it.@ everyone i agree. this was so. totally. worth it.

  160. I can not believe my mom didn’t let me stay up to midnight and refused to let me read before school, then gave me a list of things to do after school! This was all awsome, even if Alek and Deryn are in dresses, which I don’t approve of outside of a crazy costume party where everyone is dressed crazily. This was completely awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  161. THIS IS SO AWESOME.
    You are actually the best author ever.
    I can’t stop smiling XDD

    & I love the Midnighters reference. (:

  162. I had a feeling it would be a mixture of them all…….

    I love it! And Alek, does look really good in that dress, I will admit…

  164. Scott-la, you are officially my favourite author. Rick Riordan’s got nothing on you. The chapter and the picture are so awesome, it’s the best Christmas present ever! ^o^

    Hold on a sec, DERYN HAS BOOBS?!

  168. Thank you, thank you for including all the options! Definitely what I wanted 🙂 We’re all winners! Although Alek in a dress is an image I’m not really sure I want to keep…And the fanfic was amazing, thank you Scott-la and Keith-la!

  171. Everybody wins! I really appreciate that you declared this canon. It’s a nice little tie up. Though those are the most natural looking boobs on a “costumed man” I’ve ever seen. I doubt anyone would be thinking Dylan stuffed tissues down his front.

  174. Even though it wasn’t what I voted for it was still really good… I couldn’t help, but laugh at Volger being a fabricated animal (when he hates them) and Alek aka Mr. (how do you spell it) in a dress… though it was embarassing, it was still pleasureful for those who don’t have to do it… hey I’m putting out a challenge to anyone “man enough” to put on an older (WW1 time) dress and send the pics to Scott… if I could find one I would so do it… so anyone “man enough” I triple dog dare you to!!!!!!!!!!
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SCOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  175. It would be cool if we could get more than just an additional chapter… but I’m fine with this… I don’t want it to end!!!!!!!!!! 🙁

  177. @PerspicaciousLoris-144, I agree except for the fact that Scott-la does not in any way compare to J.K. Rowling. Scott-la RULES!!! Whereas J.K. Rowling doesn’t care a lick about the very ones who BOUGHT HER A HOUSE!!!! HER FANS!!!!
    @Sirena-164, and Climb-171, you would think Deryn would at least make and effort to hide her boobs! That or Alek would convincingly stuff some thing down his dress so Deryn wouldn’t be the only “boy” dressed up as a girl with BOOBS!

  178. This picture is just so insanely amazing! It’s perfect. I couldn’t think of anything better for the last piece of art. And not just art- WORDS :O
    Oh, and I’m just going to assume that the Ada Lovelace thing was a Midnighters reference x]

  181. That’s it. You’re the best author ever. Hands down, no contest, not even up for debate, etc.
    Mad props to Keith too! You guys should win prizes :B
    Haha, I’m still chuckling to myself like a crazy person.. : D

  183. You, sir… ROCK! Now if you could get Alan C. to record these sweet nothings for Hanukwanzamas… (only half kidding)

  184. Alright, the story is plausible. But does anyone see a scandal about the sexual orientation of the former heir to Austria in the near future? I wouldn’t put it past Miss Rogers. And while Deryn is symply stunning, Alek…well…its hard to look at him. Let’s say I like it with reservations.

  185. When you’ve got something like that, WHO CARES ABOUT FAN ART FRIDAY!!!! that was amazing, they are just like I remembered them, and I love how uncomfortable Alek looks in the picture. 😛
    So excited for the book!

  186. We will always want more Dalek!!! 🙂

    Ideas for the next book?? (because you know the secret meaning of trilogy)

    -Adela’s P.O.V. trying to find out the real reason why Alek threw away being the emporer

    -“One day there will be a struggle between natural creatures and those fabrications who escape out into the wild.”
    How about this??? Now that would be pretty cool

    -Deryn finally revealing her secret to everyone. She seemed to be quite content in her dress 🙂

    Or maybe all of them combined!!!!!
    I think doing the same thing that you did with Uglies (3 books in the “real” trilogy, and then a companion book with someone else’s P.O.V. but still including the original characters) would be awesome!

  187. So, this is good. BUT now that my initial excitement has gone down a squick and I’m coming off the Dalek high. I sort of resent Alek being in a dress, but I think the Varlow bit makes up for it slightly. I think. Volger was my favorite part of this. However, now I want more Varlow.

  188. Dear Scott-la
    OH MY GOD THIS HAS MADE MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I can’t believe you managed everything in one picture. Alek AND Deryn in a dress, the kiss, and you even threw in Bovril because it’s awesome.
    and the fanfiction! I didn’t expect that, and it may or may not have been the BEST THING EVER! (IT WAS)
    I can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next, but until then I can patiently wait/stare at the screen until you decide to let us, your adoring fans, know.

  189. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

    OMG! OMG! FINALLY, THE ONE I AM WAITING FOR!! HOOOAAAHH! OH YEAH!! I ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE THEM KISS UP CLOSE!! WOOOOO!! MY NOSE IS BLEEEEDING!! I AM HAPPY! DERYN AND ALEK FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

  191. THANK YOU SCOTT! THANK YOU!! EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT REALLY FINISH WITH BEHEMOTH (I read half) and Goliath (also half) THAAAAAANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I AM SATISFIED!!! OH YEAH! OH YEAH! YESSSS!! YEAH!! DERYN ROCKS!!!!

  192. YES.
    This is just….YES. Reconcile the vote by including ALL THE THINGS.

    Ah..the Ada Lovelace reference. There was a brief moment when I went, “Hey! Ada Lovelace! She was referenced in that Midnighters series!” and I um…didn’t mentally make the connection immediately that both series were written by the same man. *facepalm*

    As always, that was brilliant. Author-fic FTW.

  194. oh. my goodness. excuse me while i faint from amazingness-overload.

    SCOTT-LA, THIS IS PERHAPS THE BEST EARLY HANUKWANZAMAS PRESENT YOU COULD POSSIBLY GIVE US.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! :mrgreen:

  195. Aside from that, you’ve outdone youself Scottsters (well so has Keith <3 ) this is sort of what I've been looking forward to all week- and it definately made Finals a bit funner.
    I wish I knew that it was THIS easy to convince you to do things like this :3

  198. Hello, peoples, I am back. I have missed this place SEVERLY! “Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for.” *sigh* You know that sentence just makes me sigh? There are just TOO MANY LOOSE ENDS AND CLIFF HANGERS! Do you WANT to make your fans die from a heart acttack??? (After I finished reading/drooling over this chapter, I almost fell out of my chair!) We NEED more! We want more, of course, but often people want things they don’t need. Mr. Westerfeld, truly, I say to you, we NEED a companion novel. We need it. Also, to the person who said that the companion novel needs to be from Adela’s point of view, I agree! ONE HUNDRED PERCENTLY!!!!! But I still think there needs to be a NEWKIRK book. It just makes sense! Or, we need to have a Newkirk week! Where we celebrate

  200. Is it just me, or did Volger make a ‘that’s what she said’ joke?

    And the cloth and balloon Huxley sounds like that fan-made creation a while ago.

  202. Ada Lovelace AND Ned Kelly?!?!?!!! Thank you so much Scott and Keith, loved the references to Australia 😀

    Loved the story and the picture as well, but come on, NED KELLY!

  203. @ Sirius Black (formarly Ruth) #139
    “FINE!!!! I DONT KNOW!!!! BUT THE CHANCES OF US GETTING THIS NEXT CHRISTMAS ARE VERY, AND I MEAN VERY, SLIM!! and I dont think Mr. Westerfeld is thinking of giving us it as a Easter gift either. BUT, to look on the bright side, I THIN IT WOULD MAKE A LOVELY VALENTINES DAY GIFT!!!” She stated smartly

  204. You guys combined EVERYTHING!!!!! That’s GENIOUS!!! And it satisfies our wims to some extent but I still want another Novel (hint hint nudge nudge wink wink) I’D LOVE YOU EVER SO MUCH MORE I YOU WROTE JUST ONE (hundred) MORE NOVELS/SHORT STORIES FOR TE LEVIATHAN SEIES ((((:

    -Sighned your biggest book worm of a fan Odalys Aranda AKA Daliz

  206. “You chose the parasol.” Alek twirled it. “I had to find a dress that matched!” This is so amusing to me. Alek acts like more like a girl than Deryn does! 😛
    Thanks for writing this, it’s brilliant. I love the drawing too. I so appreciate how you and Keith managed put everything everyone could possibly want in it!

  207. Wow… you actually took the time to do this for us, and it is awesome! Thank you so very much Mr. Westerfeld for being such a wonderful, kind idol. I am constantly reminded why I worship you so much. Keith’s drawing was insane! I couldn’t even imagine Deryn or Alek in such a getup, but he could, and did an insane job of drawing it! Appreciation deserved-and given- to you both.

  208. This made my life. Extraordinary. Alek looks so awkward, it’s so amusing. Bovril’s face is hilarious. We got what we wanted. All 3 of them in dresses, Varlow, Drunk Volger, Volger dressed up as a message lizard, and a close up kiss. Fan-friggin-tastic. No Lilit or Newkirk though…that we need. We want more, we are quite greedy. (By We I mean everyone here). Life is good. Life is really good.

  210. @ 209- His first name is whatever we want it to be! Sir Awesome Newkirk III. But that’s just what I think of him.
    Everytime I think of this picture I get butterflies in my stomach! Please, I NEED, WE all NEED a companion novel! Or weekly installments, but the companion novel is more likely.

  212. Pretty much all the gratitude and anticipation and the indescribable joy that I got while reading that has been expressed above.
    But I will say this: When I started reading, a sort of gargle-squee emitted from my mouth. By the end I had completely dissolved into a puddle of rabid fangirl.
    Thank you SO much for this incredible nugget of brilliance, Mr. Westerfeld. Everything from Volger being “fortified” (and in character while fortification is happening) to Bovril’s backless French dress to Alek’s appraisal of Deryn and the Varlow (I see what you did there, Scott) just made this thing so excellent.
    AND THE ILLUSTRATION. *is permanently indebted to Keith Thompson*
    I am SO happy right now.
    (And Rachel, I’m pretty sure that Scott decided in a forum meet-up that it is Eugene William Newkirk. I miss that badass plookhead.)

  214. Man, this sucks. I have just thought about what a companian novel to Goliath, featureing mainly Deryn and Alek, during WWII and I have come to the conclusion that it would be extremaly difficult to make a intersting book with all those aspects. You could still use mainly Deryn and Alek of course but they would be, what, 35? No YA wants to read about two 35 year olds. You could also use there kids, but then there would be no romance. One other thing you could do is have one of there kids (I say one of there because i donn’t know if they will have 5 or 1) and then introduce someone new to be the love intrest, but it would be hard to inscribe the innocence of Alek and the pure Awesomeness of Deryn in two whole new charecters.

  215. You know what, the more I analyze this, the more I admire Volger. Here he is dressed as a beastie that he hates and drunk which could create a great deal of social embarrassment for him, and yet he is still super confident. It’s like he doesn’t give a crap. I mean, is the alcohol talking or is he just too cool for school?

  216. Hey Scott, I think you could learn a lot from Cassie (Clare)… She knows the even truer definition of “trilogy”
    It means you wire three books- then you come back with three (or six if you look at it right) more!!
    The answer to ^^this^^ is yes.

  218. YAAAAAAAY!!!!! i just finished reading Goliath yesterday! Deryn looks totally AWESOMESAUCE, Alek er, doesn’t as much and BOVRIL is ADORABLE!!! (as always!)

  220. @Rachel and Perspicaciousloris, Newkirk has a name. It was decided on in a transcript of a live chat with scott some time ago. I think it was Eugene William Newkirk or something.

  221. (continuation of #214) Also we wouldn’t have Deryns weird speech patterns or Aleks (forgive me) tremendosly cool-er- duumkopfness.

    Mr. Westerfeld if you can find some way to make a interesting book featureing Deryn and Alek I will live forevermore in your awe.

    Your Loyal fan Sirius Black

  222. @Lalalalaura-192, well your better than me; my only knowlege of WHO exactly Ada Lovelace is limited to her mention in this bonus chapter *looks sheepish*

  224. EEEEEEE!!!!! *fangirl screech* I love it 😀 Deryn looks so awwwwwwessssssssoooooooommmme XD you can even see alek peeking through the kiss

  225. Eugene William Newkirk!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhh!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!!!!! Almost as much as this secret chapter!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy, yet sad, because this chapter is bittersweet. I refuse to believe this is the last of our characters!!!!! It isn’t. Please say it isn’t, Mr. Westerfeld Westerfeld!!!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!

  226. That was so good! Oh how I shall cherish that. Thank you both for the art and the words, you’re wonderful.

  229. Thank you Mr. Westerfeld!!!!!!! you are my fav author, and because of your awesomeness, I love to write! 🙂

  230. @Libby-223, What is the Uglies reference?
    @Madi-La-196, I thought that too.
    @Kit Kat-184, Yeah, what’s the betting that either Adela Rodgers or Eddie Malone finds out about Dalek and (former) Prince Aleksandr of Hodensburg (or whatever it was) is in the newspaper again, this time not for and embarrassing family but an equally humiliating sexual scandal?
    Oh I missed you guys so much in the past three hours I haven’t been able to check. *sighs*

  231. @ Moonie- OH MY BARKING SPIDERS! !!!!!!!!!!!! I HAD JUST READ THAT FANFIC LIKE 10 MINUTES AGO!!!!!!!!!!! That was excellent, by the way. I loved the wedding dress!!!! How you tied in the April Fool’s Picture was pure brilliance.

  232. I love the ending it was sooooo funny my friend rayray and i were laughing our socks off! well… im wearing shoes, so i laughed my shoes off. and she laughed her socks off tho cuz shesnot wearing shoes……. anyway lol it was hilarious!!!

  234. OMG!! my friend rayray said Narian was a girl name from a book and now shes all… o did i say it was a girl name? and also im narian not a guy! omg!!!!!!! yyyyyyyyyyyyy!but my real name isnt narian.

  235. Alak shrugged. “A fancy dress party has its share of indignities, I suppose. But now that I am no longer royalty, perhaps a bit of humility is in order.” . . .. . SPELLING ERROR!!! Alak shrugged. ALAK. ALAK. ALEK!!!

  236. *That awkward moment when the girl can totally pull off wearing the clothing of either gender, but the guy can’t at all*

  237. Over 200 commets already, and it’s been only two days!!!!!!!! That is how obsessed we are, Mr. Westerfeld. Could you really let us down by not writing a companion novel?

  238. You know, I’m glad Volger and Barlow got together, because I was really worried about the wildcount at the beginging there. However, Scott has neglected to kill off Alan Barlow, so I’m not so sure about that now… Why must I always overthink things?!

  239. Hey i know this has a large chance of being washed away with all of your other comments, BUT ITS WORTHA SHOT 😀

    Not trying to fanbard you or anything, but if you ever have any extra projects concerning Leviathan’s world it would be very interesting to see how the Secret Society thingy works, and how Deryn and Alek’s lifestyles change when they-

    Hell with it i just want to see Deryn and Alek as super secret agents, you know with sunglasses, black turtlenecks, and those every day appliances that do crazy shit when you push a button… (Yes I know the time period is waaaaay off.) DERYN DESERVES TO BE JAMES BOND

  240. My little shipper heart.
    It’s melting.

    I am not ashamed to admit I went a bit like-
    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!
    [Insert uncontrollable grinning here]
    TEEHEE! VOLGER! DALEK! EEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

  241. Dear Mr. Scott

    Please write a companion novel or series. I already have to read all three books of the series at least once a month or I go into Goliath withdrawl, that is how much I love this series. However, this is still not enough, if a companion to the books that includes the characters doesn’t come out I will probably die, so please, please, please at least write a bonus chapter to goliath and have Keith draw a piece of bonus art once a year. Thank you for taking the time to read this comment and thank you in advance for responding with a yes or no. Remember, I will probably dueig you don’t.

    Thank you,
    M@X

  243. @Em-235, I know right! Girls have a way more, yes i can pull this off and if you question it… atitude than those annoyingly (but avravatingly nessicery) independent boys.

  244. A bit fanservicey for my taste, but a great addition none-the-less. I love Aleks choice of Ada Lovelace; reminds me of a series of webcomics I ran across some time ago. Looking forward to the Manual of Aeronautics with high hopes to see plenty of Clanker tech.

  245. thank u so much for putting in an extra ending and all.. and u know how some people want another book? well if u were to do another book, then what would u write about? i mean, the war is ending, and alek and dylan/daren are together and volger and dr barlow are together.. but im still confused on that part cuz isnt dr barlow married??????????????? is she divorcing him or whatever? is she going to marry volger? does she still love her husband? does she love volger? or are they just friends?????

  246. okay, now i can be happy about the series ending (unless another book cstill laughing so hard!!! omes out….) i love that all 4 choices were combined! aesomeawesomeawesome!!!!

  248. @ 244- Correction: There is no Varlow, unfortunately. Yet, it is really hard to discribe their relationship. I highly doubt that Count will follow in the steps of Alek, switch sides of the war, and fall in love with a Darwinist, a boffin, for goodness’ sake! It would be too weird, and somewhat repetetive. The companion book would be filled with Zoological Society Alek/Deryn adventures,of course! Missions, new beasties, and awesomeness! Dalek fluff. Plenty of Dalek fluff.

  249. @Evalyn-245, I thought the same thing. Check out my awesome rant (sort of) on the subject. They are on comments #’s 214 and 221.

  250. @Gecogally-239, I laughed when I read that, in a good way don’t worry. Deryn is way more-freakin-awesome than James Bond!!! Not only does she deserve to act like him but she also deserves SEVERAL MOVIES (and books! hint hint nudge nudge)

  252. This…is…ruddy…BRILLIANT!!! It’s worth 6746348964161321684634360etcetcetc FAF’s!!!
    Thanks a bunch Scott and Keith!!!

  253. LoL I love comment 164! I kind of thought the same thing… “Wait a sec… since when did THAT happen?”
    @M@X. Oh, yes. GO TEAM IOWA!!! (Not necessarily the Iowa Hawkeyes, just the state of Iowa in general, to those of you who are opinionated in the matter)
    @ Scott-la. I’m pretty sure I’ve read this–let’s just say more than once–and stared at the picture for a ridiculously long time (and NOT in a creepy way, I swear!) to study the way Keith draws it. I want to be able to draw like him. What medium does he use? Pencil? Charcoal?
    @Rachel. Yes! Keep using “Oh My Barking Spiders!” I laughed like crazy when I read that…

  254. GO TEAM IOWA!

    @ Miss Lisa: Iowa is great. 🙂 Salt is also from Iowa, as well as several others. It would appear scott has a large fan base here, despite skipping Iowa all together on his tour.

    GO TEAM COMPANION NOVEL!

  255. @ Miss Lissa (252) Yay! I’ve said that at school before, but I usually don’t get that same reaction from my classmates. I’ve stared at that picture forever, and I just sigh and like… *sigh* Like that.

  257. @M@X. I’m ashamed to admit that even if he had come to Iowa on his tour, I would not have been there as I only discovered Leviathan about a month ago. And yes, Go Team Companion Novel!
    @Rachel. Another thing I’ve started saying is “Huxley clart” instead of “Bull crap”. I haven’t gotten much of a chance to say it yet, but when the time comes, it will be grand… *looks at illustration again* *Sigh* Yeah, that happens to me, too.

  259. @ Miss Lissa- 256- That’s dead brilliant! I would say it at school, but people would think I’m crazier than I already am. How did you discover Leviathan? I went over my cousin’s house, needing something to read for my summer project, and she told me about Leviathan, and the map on the inside cover drew my attention! I was a very daft lassie back in sixth grade, and I wasn’t HOOKED on it, but on the day Behemoth came out, my mom had it in her car, and when I saw it I started screaming!!!!! Thank you, Keith for your barking amazing drawing skills!

  260. That just made my life. @ Rachel: Same with me!!! I wasn’t daft about Leviathan when my 6th grade teacher said I should read it, then I finished it in 3 days or something then bugged my parents to no end to buy me Behemoth. Then when Goliath came out, my da hid it and I seriously screamed when I found it!!! Bravo Keith and Scott and GO COMPANION NOVEL!!!!!

  262. @ Clanker Rose- AHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I WOULD’VE HAD A HEART ATTACK!!!!! I was “sick” on September 20, (really, I was) but it worked out well because I stayed home and read Goliath in like 5 hours!!!!! Thankfully, my mom went to the grocery when I finished it, so I could be by myself and scream my barking head off when I finished it!!!!! When I got to the part where “The Walker Shoots Deryn” and I was like “Oh, well played Mr. Westerfeld. Well played.”

  264. @Rachel: Why would we be depressed?
    @Scott-la: A mix of everything is anyone’s fave! Well played indeed!

  265. @ 263- BECAUSE IT’S OVER!!!!! THAT WAS IT!!!!!!! THAT WAS THE END!!!!!!!! Not that I didn’t love it, (it was barking brilliant) but that was the last of Alek and Deryn. Period.

  266. We’ve already taught you once, Scott, I didn’t think we’d need to do it agin! Four words for you: SECRET MEANING OF TRILOGY. Clearly, you’re not ready to move on either.

  270. AHAHAHA yes epic win! Thank you SO much, this was perfect! I loved the ending to Goliath, but this really should have been included as the epilogue. It’s exactly how I imagined their lives after the official ending.

  271. Ever read the mortal instruments trilogy? After finishing it the author wrote a companion trilogy with the same characters in the same world, but with both series going after different ends. The percy jackson series did the same thing, except for the fact it wasn’t a trilogy, so did Scott’s Uglies Series, it’s a trilogy, but with another novel that’s the same but different.

  272. @ M@X- you kinda lost me after the first sentence.
    @ Paola- Ahhh! I can’t believe you said that! If there’s going to be short stories, then they might as well be collected together in a companion novel!!!!!!

  274. Also, while I’m at it: I was looking up some Scott Westerfeld quotes a while ago and I realized that the “-la” thing pertained to Uglies, a series which I (stupidly) have never read. The reason I call myself “The Joker-la” is because an even longer time ago I was reading a blog entry by Mr. Westerfeld where someone had asked him if they could call him Scott (without his surname). He answered yes, but you may also refer to him as “Scott-La”, which I took to be an on-the-spot joke without reference to anything. I now realize I was wrong. Therefore, I shall officially change my internet moniker to ” Sergeant Pepper”, after a Beatles song you may be familiar with. Perhaps one day when I do read the Uglies series I may change it back. Until then…

  276. Let’s all have a moment of silence, for commemorating Goliath because it ENDED 97 YEARS AGO, TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  277. But it doesn’t have to end!!!!! If we all join together, with one purpose, one goal, one dream, of a companion novel, we won’t have to say goodbye so soon. LONG LIVE COMPANION NOVEL!!!!

  282. Sorry if my comment was confusing, it was a way of showing that just because a series is a trilogy, that doesn’t mean there will only be three books with that character.

  283. @ M@X- it’s alright. We just had to read between the lines to know you were justifying that a companion novel is barking awesome.GO TEAM COMPANION NOVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!

    @ Scott-la- Please, Mr. Westerfeld, listento your fans!!!!! We aren’t ready to give up on Alek, Deryn, Bovril, Dr. Barlow, Count V, and NEWKIRK!!!!!! Like someone said earlier, you don’t seem ready to let them go, either! This is the most unique book I have read- and no other author writes like you. I had convinced 4 of my schoolmates to read the Leviathan trilogy, and they ALL loved it! Please don’t give up on your fans! Not yet.

  284. @sergeant pepper: and here I was, thinking you were the world’s only male uglies fan. How did you not know that?

  286. ASFJ SDUFH SD:KFJ SDTKJ SDF

    the “One so rarely has the opportunity to dance with a reptile” is the best line of all 😀

  287. Is there any possibility (assuming there’s no companion novel/continuation of the series that this could become a semi-regular thing? Once every few years or on the big anniversary’s of the series ending?

  289. 1. “Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for.”
    2. “Not that he minded seeing her in a jacket and trousers every day. It was apart of the frission of their romance, that he knew something about her that only a handful of others did. But still, he was as curious as any boy would be in these circumstances.””
    3. “‘Doesn’t it seem… unnecessarily large to you?'”
    MY TOP THREE FAVORITE QUOTES IN ORDER OF MY FAVORITISM!!!

  292. scott & keith. dudes, THAT WAS EPIC!!!
    i wish to see a possible sex-scene in future, I DEMAND IT!!!

  293. *fangirl screams* YES YES YES YES YES. I AM SO HAPPY.
    *impromptu awkward little dance of glee and barely restrained joy*
    SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO worth it, ja Alek? 😀 😀 😀

  294. @Silent Pages
    what about fabricated humans!!!
    imagine the conflict! the death grapple for superiority! the conflicting ideals! a war that could very well be for the very existence of humankind or for the very freedom/lives of the enslaved fabri-humans! the now more (or less) grown up deryn or alek struggling to keep a contraversial relationship together in a world that is tearing itself apart in every way!
    OMG! scott-la/keith-ra! there is at least an entire series of books here!

  295. Scott-la, this was amazing!!! =D I am glad that Deryn and Alek finally came to their senses… if that is possible. I just finished Goliath, and my BFF told me to come here and read this extra chapter. AMAZING!!! Keep up the good work!

  300. Ohmygod. This is SO CUTE.
    -w-
    I just can’t stop staring at this picture… Only if my life was as swashbuckling as Alek’s…
    I envy this romance.

  301. This is what I wanted to read! Its everything that I could want in a Goliath bonus chapter! The picture is so awesome, by the way. And of course, we get to see Deryn in a dress. 🙂

    Love it!

  305. @ 295- Yes! I’m not as insane as everyone knows I am!
    @ 299- Oh my barking spiders! I KNOW! I have been searching for a real life Newkirk! I love Alek’s jacket, you know the normalcone he wears. I’ve been looking for it too!
    @ 293- AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! That is so barking BRILLIANT it blew my mind!!!!!!!

  306. * sorry * there was a spelling error in 304. I meant Alek’s jacket, the NORMAL ONE that he wears. I’m typing on my Kindle Fire and I’m not used to a touch screen. Barking Clanker contraptions.

  308. Bravo gentlemen Bravo. A truly perfect series with grand “fan” fiction. this was worth the wait. Thank you both for such a genuinely fantastic read. Only thing that could make this better is another book. “hint hint” Thank you again.

  309. well now mr.westerfild you have found more trobble for youre self
    because you have opend up ew door ways too new adventers to this book now you MUST write another one telling of dryen meeting up with her past becus you must not leav that hanging and the same thing gose for alek you have yet to finish this series onec you finish the past meeting up with the presint then you writ onne more for the closeure THEN YOU ARE DONE okay just to let you know and sorry for my misspelling 😀 but that was awesome and thank you for the picture keith it was a true work of art

  310. Zikedra comment 293
    That sounds like a most intriguing idea. Scott, Keith perhaps you should continue your brilliant work

  311. I apoligize for causing you so much trouble, Mr. Westerfeld, but as one of your many, many obsessed fans, we all want to read more! Isn’t this WHY you wrote Leviathan, in the first place, for people to enjoy what you wrote? For people to be your fans? Reading Leviathan has been an escape, a joy, and a privilege. I will be forever indebted to you if you continue the story that has proved to be my favorite storybook world, in which I frequently visit. Go companion novel!
    If a companion novel doesn’t work out, a I’ll try not to be too disappointed.
    One of your many fans, who all want you to succeed,
    Rachel.

  313. seriously you gave me the best Christmas present! i love you so much for this! your like the best author ever! now excuse me as i read this ‘fanfic’ a billion more times!

  314. Good night, (well, technically it’s midnight, here) my friends, continue voting for.a companion novel. I’ll be back tomorrow (or, hmm, today- but later, when the sun is up). I’ll have dreams full of dancing Bovrils, hippie Volgers, Dr. Barlow yodelling, and companion novels.
    * nudge nudge * 😉

  315. WARNING: Following post may contain coarse language

    Hot damn that’s good!
    I totally want to cosplay Deryn.
    Holy crap that picture….is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life. I pictured Alek’s dress to be hotter but have bigger bows and I didn’t picture Deryn so sexy, but I like it like this!
    Yes!! Bonus Chapter! This made me so happy. While I was reading I could picture it and it was so amazing! THANK YOU SCOTT WESTERFELD AND THANK YOU KEITH THOMPSON!!! You two just made my year so awesome! Thank you so very very much!

  317. No WWII! We’d miss out on all of Alek and Deryn’s adventures in the Society! Plus, they’d old and crotchety and not as spunky.
    The only way I’d read the WWII companion novel is if Newkirk were Captain of the Leviathan. Which would be awesome, but there’s no way he could replace Alek and Deryn.
    That is if there IS a companion novel.

  318. @Rachel
    I tots agree. reading books about crotchety people just isnt the same. Newkirk will definitely become the captain of Leviathan in my mind, at least.
    i guess i will have to imagine that the former captain was eaten by a… errrrr.. …..ummmm…………..GOT IT! A really hungry message lizard! (?). BYE OLD CAPTAIN!!!!!!

  320. @ Selin- Let’s have a moment of silence, for Captain Hobbes, age 53, who fought valiantly and served as Captain of the Leviathan during the Great War. He passed away due to a message lizard attack, and will forever be remembered as the first Darwinist man to die at the hands, or claws, of a direct fabricated animal attack. His successor is Mr. Eugene Newkirk, and will be commanding the Leviathan, as outlined in Mr. Hobbes’ will.

  321. This is AMAZING..
    but, sadly.. you’ve let your guard down.
    62nd Paragraph from the top, first word.
    ‘Alak’..

    Tut tut tut.

    But in all seriousness this is what I’ve been wating for 😛

  322. Oh my gosh I was smiling the entire time! I love this. I literally came up to my friend today and was like “THERE’S A NEW CHAPTER OF GOLIATH AND ALEK AND DERYN ARE BOTH WEARING DRESSES!!!” and she was freaking out with happiness. Please make a fourth book Mr. Westerfeld/Scott-La!!!! 😀

  323. @A FOR AWESOME-*with distinct frown on face* this is a YOUNG ADULT NOVEL not some sort of like weird-o demented teen vampire thing. I think that the fact that this series is so good that it need not be suggestive is fabulous and these books should NOT be turned into, as a said before, a boring book for demented teenagers whose self-confidence is so low that the only way they can feel good about themselves is to read about that kind of crap.

  325. @Rachel-317, I said that too, except I wouldn’t like a book about Newkirk. His character is too undefined.

  328. Aw man, can’t believe it’s over… I really loved your Leviathan trilogy because it was pure epic, stunning, and AWESOME. When I got my final book, I literally went berserk over it. And when I finished, I almost cries because the trilogy had ended. But this final chapter has flabbergasted me. If only you could keep making books about the romantic couple. Hope you keep making books similar to these! Really enjoyed reading this…..*sigh*

  329. And special thanks to Keith Thompson! His beautiful yet bewildering illustrations truly inspired me to draw again. The epic battles, the insanely awesome full page drawings… Man, I need more of this. Thank you and Scott for creating these (indescribable words) books….*sigh* it’s over….

  330. Can’t you people be happy with the sweet innocence Alek and Deryn display in their relationship? Really, Alek is kind, courteous, and a gentleman, and would not, ummm, YOU KNOW with Deryn because they aren’t married, because his parents probably taught him what it means to be a young man. A beautiful relationship is not based on lust, but rather on kindness and respect towards the other person.
    A relationship like that is hard to find, these days.

  332. You know, this scene would be a HILARIOUS blooper that they could put at the end of the credits if Leviathan were a movie.

  333. Mr. Westerfeld,
    You know you have created a fictional world of insane epicness when you have 332 comments on a short story.
    Thanks to you, I am officially teaching myself how to swear in German. And you have created a mob of fangirls (and fanboys, if that’s the correct term..) who are absolutely obsessed with the alternate universe of Leviathan. And thank you for teaching me the term ‘Steampunk’, which I now use to confuse my family. And for all those historical facts that I will now proceed to rub in my step-father’s face.
    I have to agree to someone’s comment way back in the one hundreds section, but learn from Cassandra Clare’s example and make a proper trilogy; six books. Or learn from Christopher Paolini and make a trilogy his way (which ended up producing a fourth instalment to his Inheritance cycle). Not to be pushy or anything.
    As for the bonus chapter’s picture, I find that Alek looks more uncomfortable in his dress the more you stare at the him. So obviously, I love it.
    I’ve only actually been reading the Leviathan trilogy for about three days, so I’m feeling very proud of myself, and I am glad that I read it while I was on a break from school, because I can picture myself in English class reading my book at any spot that at least has the slightest mention of Dalek and shoving my face into the book and screaming in that fangirl EEPing way. And then having everyone stare at me.
    I know this one last part was supposed to be meant as closure, but reading it just made me want more. Which is sad, because I’m already suffering from Leviathan withdrawl.
    I’ve heard of the Uglies series before, but have never actually picked them up and read them. And I think that I actually have it on my ebook (curse the darn thing), and so I will locate my ebook and read them. And then I will proceed to find out whatever else you’ve written and read those, too. And when I’ve read the Uglies, I will officially be able to add the ‘-la’ to the end of my name, because I’ve read somewhere in the comments that it was in refrence to the Uglies.
    Either way, I think that’s all. I only know because I’ve ran out of things to say (which never happens), and so I’ll be shutting up now.
    Cat

  335. I have the full Leviathan trilogy on my Kindle Fire! I love how you can zoom in on the Kiss picture! * cough cough since someone decided not to do it *
    And once I got finished with Goliath, I seriously cried because I was so depressed. And my sister snatched it from my hands and started reading it. She got it second because she got to read Uncommon Criminals first, and we made a deal if she got to read that first, I got to read Goliath first. Besides, I’m the older sister, and I had been waiktkng for Goliath longer than she did.
    Ha ha.

  337. Yes, it is AMAZING! I’m commentingon this blog WITH MY KINDLE FIRE!
    Be in awe, peoples. It is totally awe worthy.

  338. @Rachel: I just have the Kindle. You can’t do many amazing things on it. It’s tragic, really.
    I got Leviathan last Friday and borrowed Behemoth from my friend on Monday, and got Goliath two days ago. Can you believe that? TWO WHOLE DAYS WITHOUT A NEW LEVIATHAN BOOK!

  339. @ 338- GASP! THAT’S TERRIBLE! I would’ve died. But then again, I had to wait over 6 months for Goliath. At school I would skip down the hallways singing “4 months and 29 days! 4 months and 28 days!” On and on. I counted down the days to Goliath in my school agenda.
    But those must have been the longest two days of your entire life.

  340. @Rachel: Absolutely. And I wasn’t in school, so it felt even longer. I’m waiting for another book series right now. 136 days until it comes out!

  342. @341: The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. I’m waiting for City of Lost Souls (it had better make up for the last one. I swear I threw the book across the room).

  346. @343: Yeah. My friend (who incidently introduced me to Leviathan) and I jump around in the hallway sining “135 days, 135 days!” or however many days it is. Either way, it’s not a bad series.

  347. I love it!! Finally! The closure I was looking for. When I saw this, I almost squealed with excitement! Although I do feel bad for those who said that Deryn in a dress would scar their memory of her. I still like the idea of more books or more fan-fics! Both of them on some special mission for the society or something…

  349. BEAUTIFUL. Oh, I would love to see more short little chapters of their lives like this! I can understand not continuing with the series (though I would not be against it AT ALL.) But little snippits of their future like this are wonderful! Oh! And the art was fantastic! Hahaha. To go from a distant picture of them both as boys kissing, to a close up of them both as girls. Hilarious! If only we could get one of them both in proper gender attire for once. But still. THANK YOU. You are so good to us!

  351. THIS IS SO AWESOME! I just think that it is so funny whatever Broil is doing! 😉 I never thought that I would see, or image, Deryn and\or Alek in a dress! 🙂 I just love it sooo much! Thank you so much for the bonus chapter!!!! 😀

  352. THIS IS SO AWESOME! I just think that it is so funny whatever Brovil is doing! 😉 I never thought that I would see, or image, Deryn and\or Alek in a dress! 🙂 I just love it sooo much! Thank you so much for the bonus chapter!!!! 😀

  354. Aaaaaah~ This is so cute, i swear <3 Dear God up in heaven, i can't stop staring at the picture <3 we NEED another book, we physically NEED another book, Scott-la ;A;

  355. @ 354- Ditto! That’s exactly how I feel!
    Yo, wester-freaks, ready your beasties, your machines, your angry squirrels, and PIE! We are going to “persuade” Mr. Westerfeld to write a companion novel!
    ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  357. I literally just started to read the Leviathan trilogy last Thursday, when our local library just happened to have the first 2 books finally. By Saturday, I had finished the first two and couldn’t wait until the bookstores reopened today so I could go buy Goliath with Christmas money. Needless to say, I bought it this morning and just finished it. Imagine my delight when I discovered the bonus chapter and art on the website right after I finished!!!!! I was so excited, and it was a lovely surprise!!!!! Please please write more!

  360. @ Rachel – Yeah I sort of am! My post-awesome-trilogy-euphoria is slowly being invaded by my depression that there isn’t any more!! I hardly know what to do with myself…

  361. wow, the weight of it hit me yesterday-that’s IT! :'(
    it’s over! no more leviathan! (except the manuel of aeronautics, but thats not the same)
    plus now I’m like freaking out all the time about it and how amazing it was!
    AHHHHHH!

    P.S. LOVE the bonus chapter!!!!!

  362. P.S.S. (or is it P.P.S.? whatever…)
    you should make these like a weekly thing. little bonus chapters. though i did think the series had a very satisfying ending, how it left it open for thought. but i WOULD NOT object to more leviathan, i mean come ON! how could you?

  363. Got goliath for christmas and had to keep myself from reading this until I finished the book well worth the wait

  364. @ 361- yes, it is very unnerving, is it not? To know that was the END. That was IT.
    @ 362- if one were to write weekly installments, then why not collect them together in a companion novel? Besides, Mr. Westerfeld could make money off of the installments if they were to be published in a book.
    It just makes sense.

  365. Hey do you guys think Alek will ever grow? It’s hilarious that Deryn’s bending at her knees and she’s still so much taller than him!

  367. THIS IS AWESOME! WHO WOULD IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED WHILE THEY WERE BOTH WEARING DRESSES……LoL……..XD

    P.s. have you ever thought of making a forth book for the seriesMr. W. Alek and Deryn could be on a secret mission together and you could call the book KRAKEN.

    @366-if you look at the picture rachel ….or….ummm……Ronnie Deryn’s knees are bent, because she is to tall for Alek.

  368. OMG!!!!! WHAT WAS I SAYING. THE STUFF AT THE TOP DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE.LOL!!!

    WHAT I MENT TO SAY WAS THAT WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED WHILE THEY WERE IN THE DRESS.

  369. I did it again. my spelling and word choice are really bad today.(thinks to himself, stupid, stupid, stupid!)

  370. Loved it, read the last book quickly…and finding this was just awesome. Wish it didn’t have to end. T.T

  376. @ 373- WHAT DO YOU MEAN CONCLUSION!!!!! IT’S NOT GOING TO END!!!!!!
    I SIMPLY REFUSE to believe it will end.
    * crosses arms over chest and stamps foot defiantly *

  385. How is it possible to be such an awesome human being. I had spasms when I finished reading your story because of the sheer absurdity of its awesomeness and now you give me this. Mr. Westerfield, this is just too much.

  386. You, Scott Westerfeld, are an inspiration for all us authors, fanficers, and other types of literature persons. I hope you continue your marvelous work with all your series’, both those already written and those that are yet to come. And if you ever stop by fanfiction.net, you’re more than welcome to visit my page, as well as those of many others that idolize your work.

  387. HAHAHAHA They’re so FABULOUSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    but…it’s over. It’s really over…
    I AM glad that you remembered how awesome these characters are to write..maybe another series? wink, wink?

  389. THIS WAS AWESOME, SCOTT-SENSEI! I loved it! I’m currently studying to become a good author, have since I finished the Uglies series! When I heard about this I’m like OMG MUST READ!!!! I currently write Fan Fictions and I think that I might make a mini fan fiction of this fan fiction to end my current fan fic of Behemoth going into Goliath. It would make the perfect cliff-hanger ending to enter into my sequel! Thank you Scott-Sensei!!!! =D =D =D =D =D =D =D =D =D =D

  390. thanks scott-la, loved this!! perfect- combined almost everything people wanted to see brilliantly. and so funny xD

  391. OMG WE WANT AN AFTERMATH (well I do) I mean come on WHAT HAPPENS AFTER DA PARTY MUST KNOW MAKE ANOTHR PLZ WE NEEEEEEEEEEED ANOTHER

  392. Oh My Gosh! How is it that I’m only finding this NOW?! I was literally squealing in my chair throughout the whole thing, and the picture is just priceless 😀 Thank you so much for this!

  394. I only finished the book this morning <3 Finally I got to read the extra bit, aaah – thank you so much, Scott & Keith 🙂

  395. hehehe… i love it, deryn looks so comfortable but alek looks so nervous he might puke!

    p.s. i was very disappointed when it ended, i’m crossing my fingers for more 🙂

  397. Also, Deryn looks rather more fetching than Alek in a dress. Apologies, your princeliness, but perhaps you should stick to cavalry jackets?

  400. HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS UNTIL NOW? What an absolutely fantastic surprise for myself… oh goodness. DERYN LOOKS AMAZING, WOW. Just wow. This is the best day ever.

  401. I would very much like to read another book in the series. Thanks, Scott, for creating such brilliant characters. I feel as if these characters were real people. I should hate never to hear from them again after things just started getting interesting!

  402. PLEEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a fourth book!! Cuz the Leviathan sequence sounds WAY cooler than the Leviathan trilogy!
    Wink Wink
    Right?

  403. omg thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! so awesome!
    it would be too cool if you wrote another chapter to the story!!!!
    the romance between Deryn and Alek is a real pageturner!!
    please please please write another chapter!

  404. please write a fourth book!!!!
    would be awesome if deryn and alek had a kid and he/she served in world war II!!!!!!!!!!! something like that! need more steampunk!!

  407. Mr. Westerfield, you now must know that you have some truly devoted fans.
    Your books are amazing. Good job! And a special thanks to Keth, for drawing these pictures

  408. why cant you make another book????????????????? pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaasssssseeeeee could you? i totally love your series! i was so sad that it ended that way!!!!!!!!!!! i. need. another. book. now. PLEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  409. Why??? Please tell me there is a fabricated beast that will make me forget this. I understand this pleases most fans out there, but seriously?

  411. Definenty another series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I want one with
    a) romace
    b)more Bovril
    c)Deryn & Alek
    d)and of course more awesome pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  412. Please make one more book or some sort of prologue of the rest of all the main characters lives!! PLEASE! 😀

  414. I only just finished the first book, Leviathan, yet I found such an amazing “bonus chapter” of the last book. Like Scott, I think of this as canonical. It feels like it’s official, therefore, it is. And Keith’s illustration is just AMAZING!!! I accidentally saw the illustration first before reading. Loved it anyway.

  415. I only just finished the first book, Leviathan, yet I found such an amazing “bonus chapter” of the last book. Like Scott, I think of this as canonical. It feels like it’s official, therefore, it is. And Keith’s illustration is just AMAZING!!! I accidentally saw the illustration first before reading. Loved it anyway.

  416. Just finished listening to Goliath in the car. The narrator did a fantastic job with the series. As I read this bonus chapter, I could still hear his voice in my head. And what a treat it was to read this! I was just doing a bit of research for a blog post I was writing about the book and I found this! Truly enjoyed this bonus chapter and it’s always good to know that Alek and Deryn are doing so well!

  417. Oh my god yes!!!! PLEASE PLEASE MAKE A SEQUEL!! Ya know, where darwinist beasts go against the natural one!! MOAR DERYN AND ALEK ROMANCE!!!! Woo!!!

  418. You should definitley make a sequal. more bovril more alek and deryn and more beasties and walkers. make it after ww 2 or some thing 😀

  420. I’m just gonna….go die of laughter….and cry with happiness….You have no idea how in love with these characters I am….

  422. Write more. This series should not end. It needs to continue. This is one giant teaser. Write about their new jobs, surely there must be some adventures at their new stations.

  423. Dear @scott,
    Ah a teaser, I fully understand! You must for the etiquette of publishing a novel, create an sequel series. I believe the next world war came in the next 25 years.
    And Alek’s still has the unanswered dream of stopping a war. I am not the mastermind of these books, my fine sir you are! There seems so many unanswered question that one man must answer. I hope you pity us enough to give launch an companion series. You do, I see it the future as you read this post. I think I have begged you politely enough for another book…
    An impatient fan

  424. End of the series..aggh! I must mend my broken (nerdy) heart and find a another series to read…..Well i still offer my thanks! So Thank You for giving us this teaser i do hope you will make another series..And a special thanks for allowing me to squeal at the closing picture…

    @423 i totally agree…!

  425. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*Excessive grinning* Loved Bovril in its dress! Cute! Am soooo sad it is ending(maybe……) *excessive crying!*

  426. Hey am back!!!! I (Aaza (And Zada! Don’t forget me!) Was here!!! Ahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!)
    sorry was hijacked by Aaza and Zada. Anyway, Scott, you Really Really need to write another book. PLEEEEEEAAAAAASE! Otherwise, i will drown in my tears. Yes, I have been crying for months (She really has!!! (NOT)), at least, on the inside…… but now i will cry for real…. *AAAAAAHaHaHaHaHHha….. sniff…. sniffle* (What up with the random AAAAAAAHaHaHaHaHHha?) (Leocus: that is my attempt at crying loudly and having a short tantrum…. yeah, not so good.) (Aaza: FAIL! Now we must go, byes!!!!!!!!)

  428. I’m so glad this was posted. I somewhat recently finished Goliath [i loved it!], and was sad the books were done. This bonus chapter/art is great! I hope that more bonus chapters will be posted so we can catch up with our favorite “No-Longer-Serene Highness” and “former sky sailor”

  429. Hey! I’m new to the Leviathan series, and so far, I love it! My friend, *cough* *Cough* Leocus *Cough* *Cough* asked me to read this, so I did. I thought it was supper cute!!! Alek and Borvil, in dresses!!! Oh, and I have this theory about where you, Scott, got your book names from. So here it is: I think that you got the names of the books from the Jewish/Christian belief. You see, because Behemoth and Leviathan were both dinosaurs from the Bible, and Goliath was a giant from the Bible, also. Is this theory corect? Just wondering! Thanks, and go the Leviathan series!!!

  430. I absolutely LOVE it! Alek looks rather lady-like in a dress and Deryn is positively beautiful. I think Bovril looks adorable, just like a build-a-bear! hehe, too cute, the whole thing.
    Please tell me you might, possibly, perhaps, occasionally, considering posting another bonus chapter? I’d be forever grateful (and so would a lot of other people, I bet) if you would. Even if you don’t, this bonus chapter is full of complete and utter amazingness!
    Thank you, mighty Leviathan creator, for showing us what Alek (and Deryn) look like in dresses!!!

  431. This might be a long post, but whatever. To be honest, I had never heard of you or any of your books before. The first time I had was during your panel at Comiccon last year, and that was only cuz there was a Marvel panel right after yours.
    The parts that REALLY got me interested were talks about the Leviathan series. Steampink WWI? Yes please! However, being the lazy bum that I am, I hadn’t bought any of your books. Honestly, I had remembered ever once in a while “I’m gonna read those one day.” But I hadn’t. That is until a few days ago.
    I had finally bought all three of the Leviathan series just last saturday. The second I opened those books, I couldn’t put them down. I finished them in three days, one day, one book. Amazing stories. Words can’t express. Then I found out about the bonus chapter here and decided to tell you how much I loved this series. It prolly doesn’t mean much, but you just got yourself another fan. Thank you, and keep making stories.

    TL;DR WOOOO YEAH!!!! LEVIATHAN! WOOO!

  432. I AM SO FREAKEN OBBSESED WITH THE LEVIATHAN SERIES!!! … i could literally die if i wait too long for the next book (if it will ever will come ): )
    I will say this… the next time i will go to the library, ima ask if i can buy the leviathan series for the whole Family and Friends! IM GOING NUT SO IMA STOP HERE BE– *Goes on a rant*

  433. I finished reading Goliath today, and stumbled into this while posting my review on Goodreads. Seriously THANK YOU for this final ‘lil chapter. The dresses, the kiss, Bovril in a dress!! Priceless!! I wish there was another book/chapter/spinoff series because LEVIATHAN has rocked my world!!!

  434. Reaction after reading this:
    1: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! (family comes running to make sure I’m okay)
    2:Eeeeekkkk! *fangirl moment*
    3:Wwwaaaaahhhh! *sobs cuz its so epic*
    4:YOU ACTUALLY THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS, SCOTT? I MAY BE SATISFIED FOR NOW, BUT I WANT MORE! BRING UNTO US A SEQUEL TO GOLIATH! (family comes running again to see why I’m yelling at the computer)
    5:And finally, I immediately set the beautiful pic as my backround, then run and fetch my iPod touch to do the same.
    Thank you, Scott. This is…perfect. *more sobs*

  436. @Nick (Demon)- I am totally obsessed w/ Leviathan too!!! More than that even!!! INSANE ABOUT IT!!!!! My friends hate me for it, but I don’t care. Who needs friends? (unless they’re Deryn Sharp and Alek Fernindand(that’s how u spell it right?))

  437. I know. I comment way too much. I just love Leviathan too much. I am… content. Yet still longing, longing for more Dalek, more Varlow, more Bovril, more Tazza, more Newkirk, more everything. I do not have words that will describe my contentness/longing. I LOVE YOU, SCOTT WESTERFIELD. (don’t worry, in a friendly fangirl way) Also, do NOT call Deryn/Alek relationship Dalek. A Dalek is a creepy alien from dr who. But still, “aeryn” just dosen’t sound right…

  441. THIS IS AMAZING!!!! i am a huge fan of the books and was thrilled told me about this! is there going to be another chapter in the near future???

  444. I really apluade you, I. Just got back from. A book club meeting on you’re series and we such a blast. They girl caitlin who was hosting it said to go and look at the ” lost ” precious chapter on the blog…

    I did and totally love it! Is it just mee or does alek just look dashing? I a very suspicious person and so. I was thinking about why deryn would show her boobs and it then came to me! She wanted alek to see and why didn’t you go into the closet part? EKKK!!!! Please at least a scene where deryn introduces a lek to her whole family? I give all my graditude to you kieth tompson ( I’m a fellow arttist ) and to you Scott westerfeld. You have made my top list for the past 6 months.
    – a totally adoring fan

  445. Please write a Leviathan mini series! I am so addicted to the Leviathan series and I just finished it today. When I got to the last page I was sooooooo mad at myself that I finished it so quickly but soooooo satisfied with the ending! It was amazing! Please write a mini series! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!

  447. “You chose the parasol. I had to find a dress that matched!”

    CANNOT. STOP. LOLING.

    This is hilariously awesome. I love everyone’s generally blasé reaction. “Alek in a dress? WHATEVER, ALEK, DERYN CROSS-DRESSES BETTER THAN YOU.”

  448. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 I LOVE THIS! IT IS THE MOST PERFECT ENDING!!!!!!! LOL IT IS AWEOME I STARTED FREAKING OUT WHEN I FIGURED OUT THAT DERYN WAS IN A……….. ?DRESS? THIS WAS SO AWESOME IT IS SO COOL HOW FUNNY BOVRIL WAS!!!!!!!! I LOVE HOW THEY GO IN A CLOSET FOR… yah….. GOOD JOB SCOTT!!!!!!!

  449. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THIS IS SO AWEOSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST. ENDING. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (well, besides the fact that this served as more of a cliff hanger and/or a promise for more than an ending) but it waz aweome anyway!!!!!!!!
    p.s. a boffin avenging ange and a drunk message lizard? maybe Alek and Deryn aren’t the ONLT couple………….XD XD XD XD ( to be continued, hopefully) !!!!!!!!!!!

  450. srry, i ment angle, not ange! cuz that waz what Dr. Barlow waz dressed as, if u didn’t pay attention 2 that!

  451. OMYGOSH SUCH a perfect ending!! I’m not sad anymore; I was ITCHING to know what happened after they entered the Zoological Society. Completely satisfied now. It hasn’t even been 24 hours since I finished Goliath, but as I read this “bonus chapter” I realized how much I’d missed this tone of writing. This is great. Fantastic. So happy. Now my ending memory of the Leviathan series won’t be so gloomy and emotional anymore :D!!! Thanks so much!

  452. That just… Made my whole month. I finished the series a week ago and still catch myself crying… This made me so happy I love it so much thank you. You have no idea how much I would appreciate it if you did more of these. The circumstances were just perfect. (; *tear

  453. O.M.G!!!!!! I JUST finished Goliath and wandered onto the site, HOPING I would find something more and you Bludgeon me w/ THIS!!!!!!! Mr. Westerfeld and Mr. Thompson, u are truly AWESOME!!!!! I almost died laughing!!!!!!
    A “fortified” Count Volger dancing w/ Dr. Barlow? Hilarious!
    And Y is Deryn SSSOOOO AWESOME IN A DRESS!!!!! :3
    And Deryn and Alek having a lil “afterparty” in the closet? Y Mr. Westerfeld, U dawg, u!!!
    Sooooooooo when’s the Movie Coming out???? :3 Cuz u KNO that’s what we all want…..
    P.S. So Jaspert was WRONG about Deryn’s “diddies”……. lol

  454. You can tell by the way she’s kissing him in to photo, she’s totally got him whipped. XD

  455. In add to 453 I do think that Deryn and Alek would b married b4 anything serious happens, but I also think that a lil after dinner smooching time is in order….lol

  456. I just LOVE Volger and Barlow. WE KNOW YOU GUYS ARE IN LOVE, SO DON’T TRY TO HIDE IT!!!!!!!

  458. You know what would make this more awesome? Lillit. Lillit makes everything better, worse, more annoying, more sarcastic, and more complicated. Which is awesome.

  461. Deryn’s boobs are reeeeeaaaally kinda prominent there…well, if anybody questions her, she could just say she has moobs…

  462. MR. WESTERFELD !!!!! I LOVE THE LEVIATHAN SERIES !!! I NEED MORE !! THAT IS NOT AN ENDING !!! ITS A CLIFF-HANGAR !! I GOT ALL MY FRIENDS TO READ UR SERIES AND WE ARE ALL SAD THAT DERYN AND ALEK’S STORY ISNT FINISHED !!

    THERE HAS TO BE A 4TH BOOK, AND 5TH, AND 6TH … OR LIKE A TOTALLY NEW SERIES !! but the story is still around deryn and alek ….

    PLEASE MR. WETERFELD, U CANT DO THAT TO US !! U HAVE TO KEEP WRITING ABOUT THESE 2 LOVE BIRDS !!

    WE LOVE THEM. U LOVE WRITING ABOUT THEM. PLEASE KEEP WRITING !!

    we came up with the idea that the story is set in world war 2. To keep with the theme :DD alek and deryn are grown up and they feel the effects of the war …

    PLEASE MR. WESTERFELD DONT END THEIR STORY !!

    PS. the fan art and the fan-fic is awsum !! the best bday present EVER !! both deryn and alek are hot asss ;PP

  463. HELP I CANT BREATH OMG. THIS WAS PERFECT. I now have that picture saved onto my computer so I can stare at it forever and ever.
    I love that you wrote a fanfiction for your own book, Scott. That makes me very happy. 😀

  464. Thanks for this glorious article. Also a thing is that many digital cameras can come equipped with any zoom lens so that more or less of that scene to become included through ‘zooming’ in and out. All these changes in the aim length are reflected in the viewfinder and on significant display screen at the back of the particular camera.

  465. Mmmm Deryn… Alek may be daft, but he is one barking lucky man hehe. If you, Mr. Westerfeld, write another series with Dalek or continue this one, I would just like you to know that my life will be complete.

  466. FINALLY FOUND IT!! Great chapter and love the adorable (and incredibly awkward) illustration! Alek, Deryn, and Bovril look cute even in dresses! <3 Mr. Westerfeld you must continue the series!!! If you do that, my life would be complete! X3

  467. Scott LOVE the pic and chapter it makes my heart soar. But, please,please,please,please,please,please,please,PLEASE WRITE A FORTH BOOK PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Again loved it. Your awesome gia.:)

  468. Just reread the bonus chapter gia229 is totally right! Mr westerfeld you really should continue the series

  469. This is the best picture I have ever seen! Scott-la you are the best author ever and are my inspiration. Thank you so much- and Keith too- this picture is so amazingly perfect I might die! Bovril in a dress! Oh yeah! Alek in a dress! Oh YEAH!! DERYN IN A DRESS!!!!!!!! OH YES, THANK YOU WORLD, KEITH, SCOTT- THE DREAMS OF MY LIFE HAVE BEEN REALIZED!

  470. This is the best picture I have ever seen! Scott-la you are the best author ever and are my inspiration. Thank you so much- and Keith too- this picture is so amazingly perfect I might die! Bovril in a dress! Oh yeah! Alek in a dress! Oh YEAH!! DERYN IN A DRESS!!!!!!!! OH YES, THANK YOU WORLD, KEITH, SCOTT- THE DREAMS OF MY LIFE HAVE BEEN REALIZED! Thank you so much!

  472. deryn-la looks just like me (people call me a boy even in a dress, like what century is this dude) and now i totaly want that dress! awsome pictuer! scott, you are my idol! eeeeeekk! sorry, nerd explosion 8b

  473. Mr. Westerfeld,
    If you love writing about these characters so much, why stop? Why not write about their exploits in the employ of the London Zoological Society? Even though they were only used in three books, I found that I liked the characters from Leviathan better than any of the characters from Harry Potter,

    You have two options here. You can reply calling me a “ninniy”, or you can start on those new books. I suppose you could also ignore me, but the second option is the most preferable.

  475. The bonus chapter us absolutely amazing!
    Please rift a companion to this. And what happens in the
    change room? ‘eyebrow raised suggestively.’
    deryn looks amazing in that dress!! Oh my god!
    Keith that illustration is amazing and Scott
    that bonus chapter is fantastic!

  476. Oh my god deryn looks amazing!!
    Alek looks hilarious!
    Bovril can’t stop laughing
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!
    Can you lease write a follow up seris
    more Alek and Deryn! Anyone else agree?

  477. I think that there should be a smaller book about what happens next to Alek and Deryn. Just so that way we know a little more about what happened to them after they left the Levaithan. Anyone agree??

  478. Well the kissing is all very well and good. What I want to know is what comes AFTER the kissing. *smirks*

  479. I just love how elegant deryn looks, after seeing her as a boy for 3 books! I was so upset when the series was over then I found this. Now I wish there was more again haha.
    AWESOM <3 <3 <3 <3

  483. OMG THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
    This is so beautiful…….
    I’m not crying *sobs* I just have an eyelash in my eye…
    😀

  484. i just finished reading the books and was so sad to have finished them… now i read this… and i cant stop smiling and well laughing… i seriously love it!! (im not crying… its just allergies)

  485. Oh this is brilliant. Just… Brilliant. I love it so much!! No this is too much. I recently finished Goliath (read the whole series too fast) and I’m almost depressed because it’s over. Like when I saw the last Harry Potter film! Oh and the picture. I could stare at it for hours. Alek and Deryn are so cute together. (I still can’t belive how people could call them Dalek. Daleks is scary and hilarous, murderous vacuumcleaners, basicly)

  486. I wish the series wasn’t over… Absolutely loved it. I don’t like the fact it’s labeled “Steampunk” in Wikipedia. In my mind, steampunk novels are always “out of this world” crazy. This series at least kept to some basic history, and mixed it in perfectly with beasts and machines. One of the best series I have read.

  490. Mr. Westerfeld, you should right more books. Probably about an adventure they had with the Society. Something like finding an escaped biestie or whatnot. Anything. Another book (or books) would mean so much to us. 🙂

  494. Thank you Mr. Westerfield, that was PERFECTION! I really hope you decide to continue these books someday, they are some of the best books I’ve ever read!

  495. I cannot get over how much I love these books! You and Keith Thompson are so inspirational! An amusing and well-written bonus chapter. This drawing is so cute and hilarious 🙂

  496. I loved it! Especially the bit about Volgar in a lizard suit, I actually laughed out loud!

  497. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So beautiful!!! I’m crying my eyes out!!!! Thank you for continuing my favorite thing IN THE WHOLE WORLD! The leviathan trilogy!! You rock!!! 😉

  498. OMG THIS IS AN AMAZING WRAP UP AND DRAWING! Thanks sooo much for writing this bonus chapter and series. You are such a brilliant author please keep writing more!!! I can not wait till your books become classics 🙂

  501. o my god i love it usually i rate things like these on the 1-100% scale but this is like 573% i love it, great art. I am at your service forever sir Scott Westerfield. thank you for the chapter. Dalek forever!!!!

  502. I Barking love it! The drawing! Thank you so much!!! Omgg please could you more like this please please! This is barking awesome!!!!

  503. she is drunk! hehehe. Im writing a novel based on the series of Leviathan called Djinn about a boy named Noah and a whale similar to Leviathan but the Djinn can teleport and it has a mouth. the book is timed on WW2!

  505. You Should create an entire new series of Alek and Deryns adventures working for the zoological society!!!!! that would be the most amazing thing ever and everyone would love you even more! The Series cant end here!!!! DX

  506. This chapter was so awesome! I just love Deryn and Alek’s little couple interactions, and I can totally imagine that argument about gender roles taking place!

    Also, was Miss Rogers’ little promise perhaps a hint at more chapters to come, detailing Alek and Deryn’s continuing struggle against early 20th century paparazzi? Because if so, that would be really, really cool.

  507. Haha, he’s so awesome for writing his own “fan fiction”. And a sequel series about the London zoological society would be awesome, though unlikely to happen 🙁

  510. I reread this several times and I don’t see a Dalek anywhere… can someone point it out?

    Also: Kindly continue the series. That is all.

  511. Mr. Westerfield, I hope you will be inspired to write more stories about these two. I grew very fond of them in a short amount of time.

    End message.

  512. Mr. Westerfeld, please make another book. One about Alek and Deryn’s secret missions and romance. Please.

  513. Absolutely wonderful! I just finished Goliath yesterday and when I found this I nearly starts crying all over again. I will always love this series with all my heart.

  514. Mr. Westerfeld, after discovering this series just a week ago it has topped my list as my favorite book series of all time, like seriously its truly amazing and I am sad now that I have completed it. Alek, Deryn, and Bovril have become some of my favorite characters out of anything including video games and movies (which is a really hard thing to do btw). I just wanted to tell you how awesome your books are and how much i appreciate all your hard work. I hope you will continue their story with more books about their time at the foundation cause that would be really awesome.
    Sincerly,
    Ver0

  515. I can not believe how amazing this series was it came extremely close to toppling my top three series and may have if it was a longer series. I have to say I only picked the leviathan series up from the name and read for the quality it was amazing and this just added to it you are an amazing author and hope to read more of your work.

  516. Okay you have to make what Bolger said about natural and man made animals it would be outstanding.

  519. Perfect! Omg, I thought something was definitely missing at the end, and now we have it! I was crying when Goliath ended, as I thought it was missing something and I really wanted to know what happened next! AND NOW IT’S COMPLETED! I feel like the book now has the perfect ending, and the illustration… *starts sobbing violently*

    It was an amazing series, and this is the perfect ending! Alek and Deryn will be in my heart forever, and they are definitely up among my favourite series! Thanks so much Scott Westerfield, I absolutely loved this last chapter, and the illustration by Keith Thompson is amazing. Thanks for an amazing journey, and though I will miss these awesome characters and the book, this chapter ended it perfectly.

  520. GAH! I only heard about this now! News is slow in the Philippines! I will share this ti my fellow fans! THIS MADE MY NIGHT!

  522. Oh, Gott, nein. This is on the Internet now? God’s wounds! I will find this Mr. Westerfeld. (This better not be you, Malone!)

  523. In my search for Leviathan fanfic, I stumbled across this wonderful bonus chapter! Authorial fanfic is always the best fanfic, in my opinion – Mr. Westerfeld, you’re in good company with Rick Riordan on this one. Either way, Alek in a dress? That must have been fun to write. And fun for Deryn too, really. My personal headcanon for this is that Alek considered going to her to help with the dress, but wanted to retain some semblance of dignity and tried to do it himself. And promptly half-strangled himself in the bodice laces. Several more trial runs ensued.

    Anyway, this has probably come up before but… “one day there will be a struggle between natural creatures and those fabrications who escape out into the wild. The Society may be able to help in that.”? This is some very keen sequel/spinoff material. Really. And you could get into the beasties interbreeding with the natural creatures, or beasties gone feral like Tesla’s fighting bears… ohhh, so much POTENTIAL! I would write an entire novel-length fanfic on that, I really would, except I have a deathly fear of going out of character. Alas, it must remain unficced… for now. *evil laugh*

    Either way, I just read the entire trilogy in about three or four days at the recommendation of a friend (who later told me that she took up fencing after seeing the illustrations in the books) and I have to say – the trilogy collectively is one of my favorite literary works to ever exist ever. Really. SO VERY AWESOME. Thank you for writing them.

  525. Oh my goodness this is PERFECT! I’ll admit the premise was a bit odd but I wouldn’t have it any other way! Mr. Westerfeld I have never loved a couple as much as I love Deryn and Alek and I thank you for bringing them to life for us!!!

  526. I couldn’t help myself, I read all three books in two days (during my commute to and from work, staying up all night – I mean really, who needs sleep, and even took a day off work because it was too good to put down) and when it ended I raced to my computer to look up this bonus chapter! Luckily I had heard about it on Deviantart before I began book three, so I had the comfort of knowing there was more to it after the last page turned 🙂

    Thank you so much for being such a wicked awesome writer, and for giving us the likes of the clankers, the darwins, and most especially Alek and Deryn <3 If you ever catch yourself missing them and itching to pen some more, you have a loyal and lovely bunch of fans right 'ere waiting to read any snippet you're willing to depart with us 🙂

    Thank you again, with sincere admiration and affection,
    ~Antonia

  527. I just finished rereading the series yet again and heard about this bonus chapter. You should write another one, GAH!!! I ship these two to death!!!

  528. I’ve recently finished this trilogy, one of the BEST books i’ve ever read, i could say so much about it, but i’ll already stop here. GREAT story Scott, if you ever decide to do a WW2 Leviathan i’ll be sure to read!

    Thanks for the awesome story.

  531. Scott you just know what the fans want, thank you so much! You’re awesome! I finished the entire series in under a week.

  532. The last sentence just made me lose it. This is the best ending. And the picture is completely perfect. As much as I don’t want this series to end, I want to see what happens with their relationship beyond this, This is the most perfect ending ever. Even if it wasn’t in the book. I love it. Thank you so much for completing the series with this perfect little bow. I wish I could say “I can’t wait for the next one!”, But I’m glad to say that I read every single book cover to back. I’ll be reading them again in the future, And allow my kids to do the same thing. Thank you, For a wonderful adventure. I wish I could have lived it myself<3

  535. @TrenchCoatGallifreyan

    You said: “I reread this several times and I don’t see a Dalek anywhere… can someone point it out?”

    There is no actual Dalek, Dalek is just the couple name most commonly used for Deryn and Alek.

    I wish there were Daleks in this………….

  536. THANK YOU! I had this void at the end of Goliath… and I still crave for more… but this will do just fine… ALL IS GOOD NOW

  537. Accidentally stumbled across this, I’d never really followed Leviathan, but I did read the first book in my school’s library, but I read the entire trilogy over break and remembered why this trilogy was awesome. But, this final chapter just sealed it for me, and I always love seeing Keith’s art.

    So, as late as it is, thank you Scott for giving this to us. Oh, and is considered a fanfic if the author’s the one that wrote it? Seems to be an iffy spot…

  538. I’ll admit, when I finished Goliath, I was kind of disappointed at how it left off so abruptly. Then I found this chapter. You, sir, know how to properly finish off a good story. Many props to you, Mr. Westerfeld.

  539. Hmmm is anyone else experiencing problems with the pictures
    on this blog loading? I’m trying to determine if its a problem on
    my end or if it’s the blog. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  541. Scott, i have read all of uglies series ant the Leviathan series in a matter of days, thats how much i loved them!!! If there any way there could be a movie for the Leviathan?? So many people would love it so much!!!! 😀

  543. This is amazing @-) I just finished Goliath tonight and went straight to look for this bonus chapter. Good Lord, you and Keith are so frigging awesome!

    Thanks so much for the amazing Leviathan series (forever stamped into my list of all-time favorites) and this amazing fanfiction (well not technically fanfiction anymore since oh my god you declared it CANON; did I tell you you’re SO frigging awesome?) and amazing fanart!

    AUGHHH THIS IS JUST ABSOLUTELY PERFECT THANK YOU SO SO VERY VERY MUCH. KEEP UP THE TERRIFIC WORK!!!

  544. wow i just finished Goliath and found out about the bonus chapter from a friend. . . . . . . IT WAS SO GOOD!!! love the pictures too, they were so detailed. This one was awesome and so very clever, but my favorite is still the picture of Lilit kissing Deryn (-Dylan, whatever you want to call her back then) in Behemoth. The look of surprise and shock (and blushing) on her face is hilarious!!! Great work!!!

  545. Scott. Why. Just why. (;_;) WHY YOU MAKE ME FEEL THIS MUCH
    I’m at home reading this, bawling my eyes out because I love this series so much(so a normal day), and we have guests over who probably think I’m insane. But that’s not important. The important thing is that I found this.
    You have no idea how much I love this series and THEM. I burst into tears after an insane fangirling session in the middle of class, then found myself curled up and sobbing on my history teacher’s desk. All. Because. Of. This. Series.
    The Leviathan trilogy is, and will always be, my favorite trilogy of all time. I just can’t get enough of your writing AND THERE ARE ALWAYS FEELS EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME THEY ATTACK ME OUT OF NOWHERE THEY LIKE TO GET ME WHEN I’M IN PUBLIC AND THEN I CAN’T CONTROL ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF MY MOUTH BUT I DON’T CARE BECAUSE I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER FANGIRLED SO HARD ABOUT ANYTHING IN MY ENTIRE LIFE

    kthxbye

    (i love you)

  546. Mr. Westerfeld, I loved this so much. I only recently read the books, but they are some of my all-time favorites, and this sort of wrapped them up. Sort of. I demand that you write more!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for hours of my time well spent.

  547. I first read leviathan in grade 5, fast forward a few years (4 to be exact)….and i recently finished the whole series. Right on cue, the post-BarkingGreat-novel-depression is on its way. Though i will note, this is without a doubt the best novel I have ever read; steampunk, war, historical fiction, Great character devolopment, Great characters (and some romance too), Extraordinairy illustrated pictures aswell; Simply everything I could ever ask for in a series. Thankfully I was on the leviathan wiki and found out that there was a bonus chapter (after finding out, I a took a moment to thank whatever god or supreme being is up there, or scott-la himself). Now I feel as hollow as ever, and just read through all 500 comments to see if it would make a difference. Oh well, at least it added a bit more onto the summery/conclusion of the story.

    P.S It’s been 3 years, and there are 500+ comments (that number still rising) on solely a bonus chapter. A sequel should Definitely be considered 0_0 though if you do move on and don’t continue the series, I guess I can accept the fact…. ;-:

  549. Dear Mr. Westerfeld!
    I hope You will change Your mind, and expand our adventures in this fascinating utopia! 🙂

  550. Dear Mr. Westerfeld,
    I have just finished your last book in the leviathan series Goliath I am very disappointed that the leviathan series is ended but happy that this final chapter was avalible to me… But I am not making this comment only to express myself but to raise awerness to the possibility of a sequal series. It could be focused around Alek and Deryn working in the London Zoology Society. One of there first stories could be them going after the wild fighting bears in the book Goliath. It could also add upon Alek and Deryrn’s relationship and how it progresses through the beginning of their work at the society and it could introduce new beasties and clanker machines. Overall I think if you make this Mr. Westerfeld many fans (make that probably all of them) of the leviathan series will buy this book and I think that this is a good investment of your time and money, and I believe that if you do this you would gain even more fans which would lead to more sales looking at it from a business stand point so if you happen to read this Mr. Westerfeld please
    Consider this story. Thank you for reading this.
    Also if a loyal leviathan fan finds this comment please post this around the internet I think if all the fans of Scott Westerfeld and the Leviathan series we can get this to Mr. Westerfeld and get the book we most despritaly desire

  551. Mr. Westerfeld, the leviathan has been as if you had taken all of everything in my mind and put it into a trilogy. The only bad part was the fact that when it ended, I felt empty. PLEASE write another book in the series, I need you too.

  552. I personally agree with Holly here. I very much enjoyed this series and it definitely has made my time in the USMC more bearable as I loved the entire series from end to end. I definitely support any attempt at making a new trilogy set after the first trilogy.

  554. and by write more i mean to write more in the leviathen series. or just make a new one about deryn and aleks adventures say, three to five years in the fututre? or you can just continue from 1915. it does not matter just write more!

  561. Im hoping for sooner rather than later with the next continuation, I loved every second of reading these books!!!

  562. That was a super good chapter. Man that sucks, I was really looking forward to another chapter on Alek and Deryn. So speaking to the real Scott Westerfeld, can you make another book or bonus chapter, pretty please with cherrys on top?

  563. Please write more, maybe one that continues their adventures during world war 2. Please Mr.Westerfeld do it for the fans.

  564. I don’t know what to say.
    Scott, if you do just happen to be reading through these comments chuckling evilly because you KNOW what happens in the lives of these beloved characters after this final chapter, I think it is time to ease the minds of the masses. And as long as it’s not a “19-years-later-harry-potter-style ending” and ends up being a sequel trilogy documenting the missions and adventures undertaken by Alek and Deryn… Well… We’ll just have to wait and see, won’t we.
    Scott, this trilogy has touched so any hearts and left all of them desperately wanting more from this incredible universe you have so carefully created, it is, quite frankly, cruel to leave it without further uncovering the mysteries and wonders it contains.
    So this is my desperate plea.
    And, hint hint, you’d probably make a hell of a lot of money by disclosing more of the Deryn and Alek story in novel form. Just sayin.
    We would all be there on the release days in the book stores, copies in hand, reading in line while waiting to purchase the next installment. Well, I certainly would be.
    Thank you ever so much for sharing with us the beginning of such a wonderful future for our beloved Deryn and Alek. I’m looking forward to what will come. However long it takes.

  565. I could not have said it better An adoring fan. I started and finished this incredible series only a few months ago, and I already miss the characters and their world. If he decides to write another book about them, I’ll be the first in line at the book stores,eagerly waiting for the next chapter.

  566. I agree wit all of you. I first got my hands on of the books when i was 11. I read each of them at least 3 times and i would love to help with the final edition to the series. I am 13 now and i do agree that there should be another book, although if possible perhaps it would be the diary of Deryn. full of life events, her hopes for the future, or the death of her dad. I hope you, Mr. Westerfeld, will take this idea into consideration.

    Best regards,
    Connor Cary
    ps. feel free to reach me at Spiderworky6@gmail.com

  570. Please write more maybe a series about their adventures in the society or Deryn’s diary abouth things like her dad or before joing the air service

  571. Did the chapter really talk about what I read at the end? (wink wink…)

    By the way, loved the series! i finished it in less than a month. There was just so much detail! I agree with all of you that there should be another book ,but it should be for a new series about Alek and Deryn in the future of WWII… It’d be really nice!

  572. I am definitely not the only person to beg you for a new book, or even a trilogy.

    I love to read, in fact it is probably the most enjoyable thing I do, ever. Regardless of this fact, though, I stopped reading about two years ago. They were a terrible two years. I was recommended these books around the same time I stopped reading. I was at the library with my family and decided to give it a try. I just want to say that these books reintroduced reading in my daily life. They rekindled my passion for reading and turned around my life. Honestly, they completely changed my life for the better. I fell completely in love with them and I have started to read much more frequently now. I have become a happier person because I can escape into fantasy worlds (most often the Leviathan’ s, it has to be my favorite) whenever I desire.

    All in all, I am trying to say that these books hold a prominent place in my life and among my collection of books. They, again, reintroduced the literary and creative world to me. They completely eradicated two years of sadness and depression and made me advocate reading books as a way to become happier. I can honestly relate to most of the characters and I can see myself in all of them.

    I would love to see a new trilogy set in WWII and Deryn and Alek’ s adventures during that time. That would just brighten my day even more! But, my main point is wholeheartedly thanking you for writing these books and creating this universe and these characters. I really do not know where I would have gone without them, except for it not being as enjoyable or bright. Again, I cannot convey how much I am thankful for you and for these books especially. I would support more books, but I am also thankful for the trilogy already written. I hope that you can see the power of your books in people’s lives and how much we adore them and the universe they are set in. They are closer to my heart than even the first books I read, being Harry Potter. I have practically memorized them. They are without doubt my favorite and I would be overjoyed to hear of more. Thank you so very much Scott Westerfeld.

  573. This is honostly one of the best series I have ever read. I agree with everyone that you need to write more about this alternate universe, but for now, this bonus chapter filled that closure that I felt was missing at the end of Goliath.

  574. Mr. Westerfeld,
    I do adore this extra chapter of sorts; it’s got humor! And, much like those above ^ I do veeeeeeeeerrry much wish you’d write another series about Deryn and Alek. At first, I thought about World War II, but I figured that they would be much too old by that point. Although, you never know how it might turn out. But I would like to see their adventures in the Zoological Society of London. Like, what ships do they board for travelling? Do they ever go on Jaspert’s ship? What about Deryn’s secret during the war? After the war? How are Alek and Deryn fairing as a couple? How well are they hiding her secret? If they do board a warship again, does Deryn get to jump straight to middy duties? Or would her position be more diplomatic, like beside Alek and Dr. Barlow? Though, she isn’t very fond of that kind of thing, is she? She would much prefer being dorsal to being stuck in the bridge (like during the attack on Tesla’s island). As you can see, xD there are so many possible questions. So, why not answer them with a new series? Please, please, please!!

  576. I wholeheartedly agree with Holly. You should write a new trilogy, entirely about Deryn and Alex’s adventures in the London Zoological Society. Write about undercover missions, hiding, lies, reveals, amazing machines and fabricated animals, and everything else that made the Leviathan trilogy so good. This would make me extremely happy, as currently I have read all the books on my bedroom bookshelf (there are exactly 342 of them) and I need a good sci-fi or steampunk or realistic fiction book to read or else I will go insane with BOREDOM!!
    Yours truly,
    The Oncoming Storm

  578. Wow, i finished reading the book and this chapter today and i have to say that this truly is the bonus chapther that i would have loved to read but never dared to ask for,so thanks mr westerfeld you made my day

  579. I should think that another chapter would be great, or even another book! But, I do think that the series has come to a close. It’s great reading how Deryn and Alek get along after the war and I think that Scott Westerfeld could write a short story on that. I’m not talking about a whole barking book, but at least a couple of chapters that could enlighten us fans. The series may seem worn out, but I can assure you that Deryn and Aleks’ adventures are not over yet. After all there is a whole barking world.

  580. scott westerfeld please wright another book one where alek and deryn are going spying in other counrtys i need more of alek and deryn i feel empty i need MORE PLEASE.

  581. Well, I never thought that it would end quite like that. I must say though, this is the first novel that I have been enthralled by since I read Narnia for my first time. I just finished your trilogy over the past three days and would like to ask you to write a fourth book. It would be fairly interesting to see what types of danger Deryn and Alek get themselves into. I might also add that C.S. Lewis never though that he would ever write a book to accompany The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; yet he did. Also not only the adventures of Deryn and Alek but what about the adventures of Alek’s father? A standalone book about his father would intrigue me and hundreds of thousands of other readers; The Magicians Nephew was written after The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair and The Horse and His Boy!

    All I’m saying Mr. Westerfield is that I would find another book set in their universe, wether it be about the revolution leading up to and after Alek got involved or about adventures that his father had or even Deryn and Alek’s adventures with the society would be pure bliss.

    For your consideration.

    –Matt

  582. I think you [Scott] should right another Trilogy, this time set at the Brink of World War 2, the characters could be all grown up, and they have to get the gang back together (e.g. Dr Barlow, Count Volger, Klopp ect) and Alek finds his paper (that makes him the archduke of Austria) and the Austrian empire rises again! Or something, either way I would support you writing this trilogy as many others would too, I enjoy to here from your next book Thanks Scott!

  585. Dear Mr. Westerfeld
    I am sure that hundreds of people ask for you to wright another series for the book Leviathan. You probably should too. This Bonus chapter was good but still left me unsatisfied. Such as: What do they do after the war, What do they do in WWII, or even what happens to Lilit. Plus the legion of fans you have created from this series is phenomenally huge! Congrats! But it would be sad to see how this great idea and world you created just only lasted three books. ONLY THREE?????!!!! Also even if you never planed or never will wright another book for the leviathan-which is totally respected-the comments of you writing more will never end and I guarantee you that. So please wright a few more books just to satisfy the huge legion of fan’s-including me-so we can stop asking for more books.

    Thanks
    One of your Fans

  587. Dear all the Fans
    If you go back like waaaaaay way back in time when Mr.Westerfeld was making the leviathan series he said how the series is over. WHYYY that series was so good! ;-; But the good news is that he will MABYE make another book “But that doesn’t change the fact that with the Manual finally out, the Leviathan series is kind of . . . over now, at least in its original flavor version. *MAKES SAD FACE WITH TINY TEAR*” this is actually from the blog The Manual is OUT! so guys go check it out and hope he will continue it. 😛

  588. Deryn and Alek would be about 40 years old in WWII. So that would be really cool if someone wrote a fanfic or something about that. And what the loris said at the end… MISTER Hohenberg… Is that just because he was in a dress or something more…?

  589. What is all that talk about a user pretending to be Scott Westerfeld? I don´t mean to sound stupid, well it is almost 1:30 am in the morning so I probably do, due to a lack of sleep, but I am confused whether this extra chapter was written by Scott Westerfeld or not. Also the first user to claim that it wasn´t said something about a name being spellt wrong, but when I doublechecked I noticed no such thing.

  592. do a series from the perspective of the clankers
    because I’m a clanker and they are awesome

  593. If you could just write another set of novels in this universe of normal events, such as Alek meeting the Sharp family (namely Jaspert), I would definitely be happy. These are my favorite books, and favorite characters, which I plan to force every one of my friends to read, as I have tried to do these last few years. I just need so much more. Or if Keith could draw an animate the entire story! That would be wonderful! Though difficult.

  594. I love the Leviathan series SO MUCH, it’s all I talk about and while I was reading it, particularly Goliath my life pretty much revolved around it. Please please please please please please please please PLEASE PLEASE write more, I need to know what happens to Alek and Deryn (but not in WW2, they’d be too old by then) there are so many potential stories to be told, adventures to be had and moments of shipness in the Zooloical Society! It HAS to happen.

  596. I agree with everyone in this chat a second book would be amazing however he should not be pressured to hard. Anyway I will agree that a book in WW2, the character would be to old or even dead (but only like volger and people of that age) but personally I would pay 1m dollars for the story to continue

  597. I would really love to read about Alek and Deryn’s adventures working for the Zoological Society. Maybe in the form of graphic novels, especially if Keith Thompson continues to do the artwork. Obviously the idea of a continuation is really popular. PLEASE DO IT SOON!!!

  602. You should make a sub series consisting of around 2 books about Alek and Deryns adventures in the zoological society which countinues around a month after the bonus chapter.

  603. You should write more but instead of a book you should make a sub series about Alek and Deryns adventures in the zoological society. The Sub series should be about 2 books long and hopefully you could get Keith to do the illustrations to.

  605. please make a sub series or more books in this series I love this and am writing a fanfic about it but please scott MAKE MORE BOOKS ABOUT ALEK AND DERYN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  606. We all need more Scott Westerfeld. Please continue the story of Alek & Daryn. We are all dieing for more.

  609. This is a very fabulous story. I read this in sixth grade and i still read it today. We, your fans, NEED more stories. about as much as the alex rider series

  610. I truly loved this extra chapter even though I thoroughly enjoyed the last chapter of Goliath it left a few questions unanswered like what would volger do now and who were these zoologist people but I think that this chapter answered these questions sufficiently so thank you for writing it truly I would enjoy another Leviathan book because of the lovable characters and amazing universe plus you left it with quiet the open door where they could start a completely new adventure but even if you never do make another one ( I mean it has been six years) I am very happy with the ending thank you once again

  611. I cannot stress this point enough. We’re desperate for more. Please please pleaseeeeee make another trilogy. I don’t care how long or short the books will be as long as you do them Scott. Thank you…

  612. Also, I’m legitimately going to cry if this is the last chapter of the Leviathan series.

  613. I have read multiple book serieses(if that’s even a word) by countless authors but I have never ever enjoyed or loved a series more than this. To think that it’s already going to end is devastating.

  614. I’m comment here to say: lovely work! I quite enjoy your books, Mr. Wesyerfeld, and I am glad I found you! Your Leviathan Series are my favorite books of all time, and the Uglies series is definitely the best Dystopian book series I’ve read. I just found this, and now I want to read the whole series again, for the fourth (or was it seventh?) time.

  615. Sir, this series is by far the best I have ever read. Its a sad fact knowing that this series has come to an end. The characters are so well written and the story is phenomanal. It was a wonderful journey seeing Deryn and Alek grow, the reader can’t help but get attached to these characters. If one day you do decide to create a sub series about Deryn and Alek’s adventures in the Zoological Society, hundreds of thousands of fans will be eager to read. Thank you for creating this wonderful series

  616. E leído muchos libros pero ninguno me a despertado los sentimientos que estoy sintiendo ahora al acabar su ultimo libro goliath me a encantado de principio a final cada palabra cada definición han sido de sobresaliente y todo en conjunto me han creado un sentimiento de vacio irrefrenable que solo puedo llenarlo leyendo otra historia de alek y deryn por favor se lo suplico continue la historia como si es en la segunda guerra mundial por favor ?

  617. E leído muchos libros pero ninguno me a despertado los sentimientos que estoy sintiendo ahora al acabar su ultimo libro goliath me a encantado de principio a final cada palabra cada definición han sido de sobresaliente y todo en conjunto me han creado un sentimiento de vacio irrefrenable que solo puedo llenarlo leyendo otra historia de alek y deryn por favor se lo suplico continue la historia como si es en la segunda guerra mundial por favor ?

  618. Perdón quiten el signo de de interrogación de mi ultimo comentario .Pero en serio la trilogía es fantástica

  619. I wonder if we start raising enough funds for scott to make more books maybe he would make a sub series.
    Oh and by the way you’re leviathan series we’re AMAZING!!!! I seriously think I became addicted to the story and it’s characters. And I assure you that whatever reasons made you stop from writing these amazing books you would gain A LOT from them and making I don’t know how many millions of people VERY happy.

  620. I loved this book series! However for some reason I expected a bit more to happen in this chapter. Alek and Deryn go to a fancy dress party and a hint that Volger and Barlow may like each other. That’s it? Maybe I’m just being selfish, since you already did give us possibly the best alternate history book series of all time. Also, if the image came before the chapter, that was way more wierd lol.

  621. Also I really hope that they make a good Leviathan movie some day with a high budget and true-to-book story. Someone call the makers of the Hunger Games movies! 😀

  622. I just today finished binge reading the leviathan trilogy and this bonus chapter. At 30 I love this series every bit as much as if I was Alek and Deryns’ age. I have to have more though. There is still so much about the two to tell! Ill buy hardcover!!!!

  624. We just loved the series and I enjoyed the additional chapter. I have been looking for something like this to listen to again (both my fiance and I listened to the series via Audibles), and we just can’t find anything that’s even close to being comparable. So, we are hoping that you will create another series similar to this one. PLEASE!!!! 🙂

  626. Could you please make more books? I liked the series but now I am curious about the society of zoology so could you please make another book maybe even with different characters but in the same setting.

  627. Never in my life have I ever rushed so fast into a library to pick up a book, for I was genuinely intrigued when a friend of mine showed me Behemoth. I picked up Leviathan and Behemoth yesterday, and my eyes raked each and every single word I have read so far of this well-crafted series, as I finished Leviathan today in class, returned it, and picked up Goliath to read, and I’m a quarter-way through Behemoth. As with other fans, I would be swarming to read another sub series with Deryn and Alek, as I have grown attached to these characters for they are so well-written, I couldn’t stop the page turning.

  628. I also want to add that my most favored part of the Leviathan series is the character relationships and development. Such as Alek first acting like a bratty, stereotypical rich kid, than into a more mature man who is actually a pretty decent liar in the end, and Deryn being a more stable character at first, not worried that anyone can find out her secret, to crushing on the very same Prince Aleksandar of Hohenburg, whom of which she did never want to tell him for the next step of her development and the same reason to prevent something as tragic as Alek’s parents’ deaths, to a very cautious and insecure person as more and more things happen in their time on the Leviathan to cause more people to find out her secret. Bovril was also an interesting character because I had to look up the word perspicacious in order to understand, because I couldn’t stand to be like Deryn and Alek, using the word without knowing the meaning. The main protagonist’s character dynamic changes with each character. For Alek, he grows distant from Volger, and he trusts him less and less throughout the series, and Alek’s eventual trust in Dr. Barlow, whom of which we don’t know if she intentionally made Bovril hatch on Alek’s watch or not. With him and Deryn, his initial hatred turned to friendship, then to his falling out with Deryn after finding out her secret, and falling in love with her slowly. And for Deryn, her initial distrust with Alek turns to crush, then a burning passionate love for Alek, which was eventually returned, and her somewhat confusion with Dr. Barlow’s intentions, as stated multiple times in Behemoth turns to working with her. And as I near the conclusion of Goliath, the only thing I will regret is that I will never know how Alek, Deryn, and Bovril’s story will end, or get a proper explanation as to how their world would be now. I have many burning questions, like ‘Dr. Barlow mentioned in Behemoth that Bovril seems to interact with Deryn like he does with Alek, and she mentions that they ”Are close”, am I reading too into it or did she suspect that there was something else going on between them?’, ‘How does WW2 start in this alternate universe?’, ‘How come the ending was too open?’, and ‘Why isn’t there a movie made for this series?’.

    Mr. Westerfeld, I too believe that this series has a lot going on for it, as I can’t stop reading it, like I’m annoying my family with the sheer amount of reading I have done. All we fellow readers wish for is a sequel series of this amazing trilogy, or even a movie deal. Your work with the Leviathan series has inspired me to be a better friend and ally in the face of trouble and deceit, which plagues this world to this very day, and I may one day transform your story into a play in my senior year of High School.

    I thank you for taking the time to read our comments. And I look forward to seeing your future works, and the possible sequel series.

  630. I’m rereading the Leviathan trilogy again and I couldn’t help but reread this lovely little bit too. I love that you call your own writing fanfiction, haha!

  632. I absolutely love this series and have binge-read all three books! (Actually I listened to the audio-recordings by Alan Cumming which were amazing, and my favorite voice character he did was Count Vulgar!)
    Although my imagination took the story way beyond, into Alek and Deryn getting married, having a baby girl, and Count Vulgar becoming a God-father! lol!
    I would love to see more Alek and Deryn adventures though!

  635. Wow this comment section is lit. Was expecting more than one comment in the year since I last checked lol.

  636. Scott please please please right another trilogy about when they are in the zoological service I need to know how the war ended.

  637. Alek in a dress? What was he thinking? Anyhow, I love Scott Westerfield’s leviathan series and if this is the last chapter, by all means, I am gonna cry 🙁 I can relate to Alek in many ways. One way is that i’m learning ” Clanker Talk/ German”. I will mentally die if this is the last chapter. It was great of course and I liked the art at the end.

  638. I will read every book until I find a grander series. I will not stop. I will create an a.i. To do so. Although the a.i. Would also need to create a.i. because their will never be anything to surpass this based on my specifications. I do wish the series didn’t end I will never feel hope again. And after re reading this it sounds too dreary. As my life. And. Things. ?

  640. I can’t even count how many times I’ve read this after crying over the Leviathan trilogy, haha. I really love your books, and even though you probably won’t read this comment, Mr. Scott Westerfeld, I absolutely adore your books. The Uglies series was definitely the best Dystopian series I’ve read, and the steampunk-fantasy-historical genres of Leviathan were thrilling. Thank you so much for making these books for us.

  641. as i finish reading the leviathan series once again im left with a bittersweet feeling and longing for another novel set in this interesting world with these awesome characters

  642. I think he should’ve made the war extend longer than in one year, just like the real one. Then we would have more of Deryn and Alek, but not have it at that point completely be a romantic novel of some sort, with a plot that isn’t remotely absurd.

  643. Personally, I’d suggest people say *could*, not *should*. Although, I would love it if more *could* be written! I adore Deryn and Alek as characters.

  644. Your first book was gifted to me a decade ago. I just re-read the series and loved it even more than I read last time. And then as I’m scrolling Wikipedia, I learn you have a bonus chapter that was enjoyable and funny.

    You have created a universe that was beautiful from the start. The combination of your writing talent with Kieth’s illustrations more the books powerful. Can only imagine of other book series did that.

    Anyways you left a great mark in the world of literature, I will check out your other series now.

    John Doe

  645. This is my third time, maybe fourth? Reading the trilogy. It has been a few years since I last read it, these books were one of the first, if not the first books I began to read out of enjoyment. Honestly, they are just as enjoyable as the first time. Thank you for showing me that the world of literature far surpasses that of the movies. However, I am always filled with sadness after I finish. The adventure is over 🙁 maybe soon it will be time to make some of my own.

  646. Thank you so much for writing this trilogy and this chapter, I honestly can’t say I’ve read a book better written. I hope you somehow continue this story.

  648. Just going to be honest for a quick second, this chapter is absolutely amazing. I finished rereading the trilogy today and wanted more, and I found the for the first time. PLEASE, I’m begging, give us more Deryn and Alek. I love them so much. Deryn told me that as a girl, I can do whatever I want. Alek told me that people you love are far more important than anything else. Together, they taught me that taking risks is good, and also being oblivious is hilarious. We all want more. We all need more. Alek and Deryn are the people we look up to, people that taught us how to live. And like you said yourself, writing Leviathan (and the extra chapter) was fun! Why not do yourself, and us, a favour, and write more? We’re all curious and waiting, and we’re in love. In love with Leviathan.

  649. i would just like to say this is such a good book series and Scott if you do more like it i know for a fact i will cry happy tears

  650. I finished reading the trilogy a few days ago, I am really fascinated, even now it is my favorite book saga, how much I knew about this bonus was exciting, however that bittersweet feeling that there are no more adventures of alek and deryn is very sad! ! I hope one day that you follow the story, as an animated series, movie or even more books I will look forward to! For now I will see more of your works and hope you follow the beautiful story of Leviathan. Greetings from Colombia!

  651. It’s been 7 years since I picked up Leviathan the first time and years later it’s every bit of a thrill and adventure as I remember. I also can’t believe the series’ author would write fanfiction for his own work! Brilliant!

  652. I got Leviathan a few months ago for my 18th birthday, but only started reading the trilogy about a week ago. As an avid book reader since I was seven, I cannot stress enough how much I love your story! At first, I honestly didn’t think I would come to appreciate it as much. As I read through the pages, though, I found myself more and more drawn to the amazing characters and their stories. Never in my life would I have thought that I would be THIS dumbstruck with a story. I just finished the bonus chapter, and I am honestly at lost for words. I know it’s been years since you finished the last book, Mr. Westerfeld—almost a decade; but if ever, at any time, you decide to revisit these wonderful characters and their following story lines, please know that millions are awaiting the next sequel to the story! Nevertheless, I must genuinely and whole-heartedly thank you for this breathtaking experience. I will remember this trilogy for years to come, and I will enjoy rereading it every few years. Thank you so very much, and may God bless you :))

  653. It’s been… oh jeez about 7, or more, years since I read the trilogy, but when I read that there was a bonus (an apparently canonical?) chapter that Mr. Westerfield published on his website (thanks to Wikipedia, by the way) I just had to google it.

    I’m glad I did.

    I know these books were/are supposed to be for middles schoolers, or whatever, but a good book never leaves you. I feel like I need to read them again.

  654. When I first read the Leviathan trilogy in middle school, it absolutely changed my life. I walked around in a daze for a few days after reading the first book, wishing that the world Westerfeld had spun up was real, somewhere; throughout high school, I became the annoying WW1 buff because of it. I insisted that the family cat be named after Alek.

    I’m 22 now. When I came home in March, kicked out of my last semester on campus by the virus, I swept myself into a cleaning frenzy, donating all my YA books except for these three (and the Manual of Aeronautics, of course) without a second thought. Just about half an hour ago, I finished rereading the trilogy for the first time in many, many years. This time, as a young woman really throwing herself into the arduous process of learning how to love herself, I found myself loving Deryn and her bravery exponentially more than when I first met her.

    Reading this “bonus” brought back all the giddiness I remember feeling as a teenager. I love Alek and Deryn so, so, so much, and would be overjoyed to read more of their exploits someday.

  655. I just finished the Leviathan trilogy for the first time, and this just added to my already enormous love for the series!
    I do hope Alek and Deryn return in the future to awe us all over again with their exploits.

    Thanks so much for writing this, and I look forward to your future books 🙂

  656. I just finished rereading this trilogy (for what feels like the millionth time) and it never gets any less exciting. Every time I finish rereading it, I get sad that it’s over. This trilogy has been my favorite every since I read it for the first time in middle school, and since then it has always been my go to, comfort series. As a college student now, I have a harder time wanting to read novels between all the textbooks, but these are books that I can always dive into and read.

    The bonus chapter always makes me so happy, especially when I’m sad about finishing my reread.

    I know it’s been quite a long time but I will never stop day dreaming about new books about Deryn and Alek, or new books even just in the Leviathan universe. The universe you created is mind blowing, and amazingly creative. I would love to read more, if you were ever to write a follow up novel.

    And lastly, thank you for writing such wonderful books, and to Keith for the wonderful illustrations! <3

  657. When I was about eleven or twelve, I remember being so excited for Goliath to come out. I usually listened to the audiobooks, and flipped through the illustrations afterwards. But I was so desperate to know what happened to Alek and Deryn that I read Goliath in… a day I think? Something like that.
    It’s crazy to think that next year it will have been a decade since the series finished. Although a lot’s changed around me, I still love these books just as much as I did then.

  658. No matter how many times I have reread the trilogy, I always come back to it like the first time I picked it up. All the time whenever people ask me to recommend a book, my first recommendation would be the Leviathan Trilogy. This was also the first series and only in which I bought all the books.

    Also, I’ve understood politics and history better than I did in class or in a documentary. I love how, at the end of the book, there’s always that part where you divided truth from fiction and I’ve learned so much from that.

    The art was so beautiful and intricate, especially with the contrasting sharp lines of Clanker mechanics against the curved outlines of Darwinist creations. The world became much more intricate and the combination of Clanker-Darwin creations in the countries of Istanbul, Japan, and America fascinated me.

    This series captivated me in middle school and became my go-to comfort read when life gave me lemons. I learned so much from Alek and Deryn on how I had to keep fighting no matter what, and that a handful of good deeds was what keeps you sane in times of war(trouble). I love the line, “it was awful, being at war with you.” It’s such a beautiful sentence and it’s probably gonna be a line that will stick to me forever. I love their dynamic and how they fight for each other and how they save each other. I also love how you wrote CANON FANFICTION. I salute you, sir, and I aspire to be a writer (when that will be I do not know) who writes fanfiction off of their own characters someday.

    Thank you so much for writing this marvelous series! Thank you so much to Keith for drawing such masterpieces! Thank you!

  659. I read the series probably in middle school, and recently re-read the series (well, actually re-listened to Alan Cumming’s wonderful audiobooks) with my partner, who I discovered also loved the trilogy as a kid! This little bonus was a lovely thing to discover many years later, and the art is just fantastic as well. Thanks for posting this!

  660. I first read the series back in high school (around 2013) and loved it instantly! It’s been nearly 10 years since then, and I finally picked the books up for a re-read this week. It seems to stand the test of time, and I feel like I discovered so much more about the series (and the history) this time around. I didn’t know this short existed until recently, but it wraps the story up so nicely. Thank you for this!

  664. I read the trilogy first in early highschool and was obsessed. I couldnt put it properly into words then, but now about to finish my last year of college it makes sense. The amazing depth of the world building and the wonderful twists of history with a steam punk aesthetic feeds my history major brain in a way that is still so satisfying.

    From a young age I was fascinated with stories of girls pretending to be boys; as a young transmasc person in the middle of their transition, this series has honestly been so wonderful to read. The understanding of gender and queerness is so empathetic and comforting in a way that I didn’t know I needed. It accepts the understandings of identity that were a part of the early 20th century without replicating them in a way that enforces those roles now. The tongue in cheek attitude towards gender expression and presentation keeps things from being heavy handed, and I like the space that the books leave for different interpretations.

    Tldr, it is a wonderful series and thank you.

  665. The first time I read your series of “the LEVIATHAN”, I was 13 years old (11 years ago!). To be honest, this series was just one of the interesting novels for me at that time. But years later, when I suddenly remembered this series and took it again, this world’s charm dragged me in. And now I finally reached here, I’m fully satisfied with watching their adventures and fun and happy lives.
    from Japan, with love

  666. Oh my gosh I just finished this series and it was so good!!! The bonus chapter was just the icing on the cake ?? I know I’m late, but thank you so much for creating these characters and their world. Plus the art is so pretty!

  667. there is a criminal lack of any fanfictions on the internet, i need me some more of this rn

    (me when no one will ever reply to this, because comments close in november)

  668. Lol, comments aren’t closed till April 7th of next year. So here’s your reply SV :). Also, picked this up long ago, when I was 11-12, this fanfic had already been released and it took rereading and looking at the Wikipedia page to find it! Well, better late than never.

  669. to all those saying you want a proper fanfiction, not just a short story, but a book with an actual plot, on what happens after this in the series- well it is here, or at least is being currently written by some people including me. Expect chapter releases every month or so.

    details on the un/official leviathan fandom page
    https://leviathanscottwesterfeld.fandom.com/f?catId=77588.
    help is appreciated.
    cant give you the links for actual writing here now because its probably breaking a rule or something idk.

    and if you want to read other peoples fanfictions, there is a huge amount here:
    https://www.fanfiction.net/book/Leviathan-series/

    These are of course not canon, although are so good some feel like they should be.
    I will probably upload our one here as well, but main writing goes on in the links.

  671. I first read this series when I was in middle school, (and continued to read multiple times thereafter) and hearing about the upcoming tv show compelled me to read the series again at age 25. I finished all three books in the span of a week because I couldn’t get enough! Alek and deryn will forever have a piece of my heart. After I finished Goliath, I remembered that there was this bonus chapter, which brought me back to the exciting days of refreshing this blog for a snippet / piece of art teasing Goliath’s release. Thank you for an amazing series!! I still find myself channeling my inner deryn sharp.

  672. I graduated high school the year Of Vietnam was published, and missed out on this series for 15 years. Fortunately, the adaptation by Orange coming out next year brought these books to my attention, and the books themselves gripped me from start to finish, with Goliath in particular being finished in two marathon sessions. Great series, great art, can’t wait to see the anime next year, especially after Orange blew me away with Trigun last year.

  673. Just read it for the first time and really enjoyed it. However I was surprised when the metal detecting device of Tesla’s was not used to locate the Prince’s gold bars thrown from the airship during the escape. It should still be there in the ice. Maybe a nice short story on that recovery after the war would be cool.

  674. Suppose I ought to nip in here before the comment section closes forever.

    I read these books back in secondary school and I’m just finishing university now, with a bachelors degree in bioscience funnily enough. They’ve always been one of my favourite series and this bonus chapter is such a brilliant way to cap off the series.

    I hope with the new netflix adaptation of the work (very good by the way, if a bit fast paced) that more people will find out about this series and the wonderful world of clankers and darwinists.

  675. Learned about this series from the netflix anime adaptation and was immediately hooked on the characters and world building. Bought all the books and enjoying them immensely! I can’t get enough honestly and I am super glad for this bonus chapter, just to get more of Alek and Deryn being cute together is appreciated. I hope the author will continues the series some day. Be it books, a new season on netflix, games or whatever. I and many others will be waiting to jump back in.

Comments are closed.