Nimbus: A Steampunk Novel (Omnibus)
NIMBUS is steampunk for people who don’t know they like steampunk, as well as being steampunk for people who already love steampunk!
This omnibus edition of NIMBUS contains all four, serialized steampunk novellas into one, complete standalone novel. NIMBUS is steampunk fantasy like you’ve never read before!
Seedy corporations and airship factions, demons and rogues, zealots and thieves…
Nimbus is an epic fantasy tale of power, greed, and corruption.
Jude Finley is a new recruit aboard the Gangly Dirigible, an airship that extracts water from rain clouds. While working aboard the ship, Jude and his friends uncover a secret which may or may not help them against a growing uprising that could spell doom for everyone on the planet.
Meanwhile, Demetrius Rucca, the wheelchair-bound son of a prominent religious leader, begins recruiting followers for his own subversive cause. As allegiances are sworn to him and his followers grow, he begins to discover the new powers that lie within him. This power could be the salvation Demetrius is looking for–or it could be the destruction of the known world.
Whether you’re looking for sky pirates or steampunk magic, Nimbus is the young adult steampunk adventure that has it all. And be sure not to miss the new follow-up series of steampunk novellas–Stratus takes place three years after the events of Nimbus. You’ll see old friends and new faces, explore deep under the deathly fog and into the Burrows, and just maybe hear a few new steampunk tales you’ll want to share with your friends.
A bit of a mixture,
The story, the action and the characters are good and there is plenty of action. However the world that they all live on is a bit strange. I find that the environment of a story is exremely important to me. In ths case a a world where every one lives in some sort of towers above the lethal fog with the lower classes living in burrows under the towers doesn’t quite work.
Then we have strange and unexplained beings or spririts that are the world’s first inhabitants and who seem to have been trapped in caves.
I read the whole book and did enjoy it but not quite my cup of tea.
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|It’s OK, but nothing better,
This set of books is OK – the storyline is OK, the premise is OK. I’m not sure throwing in the odd description of “steam” and making the odd door work with “cogs” is necessarily high-end imaginative Steampunk. I considered two stars for a while, but that’s unfair.
Descriptively, I found it confusing at times, as there appeared to be leaps from being in a tight spot to suddenly running for freedom, and not even with a single bound. And I don’t really like any of the characters very much. I’m not too fussed what becomes of them – and a good lead character (or 2) should the the centre piece for a good story. The baddies aren’t despicable enough, except almost by accident (think Anekin Skywalker sulking himself to the dark side), and the goodies are a bit banaal.
It’s readable, and at times enjoyable…but mostly it’s not that interesting.
Worth a read, but don’t get your hopes up. If you want SP, start off with something like Scott Westerfield, Phillip Reeve, George Mann, Chris Wooding (very Firefly if you like the old TV series), or my personal favourite, Mark Hodder which messes with your head a bit, as well as being brilliant, imaginative and vivid.
As I say, worth a read, but don’t expect too much.
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|Fantastic,
Simon
Liverpool
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