Riding The Mainspring: A Collection Of Steampunk Short Stories
A steam-powered cowboy with a taste for death.
A daring art heist in a moving city.
A zeppelin flight through the smoke-filled skies of a Europe torn apart by volcanoes.
This collection brings together nine stories of mechanical endeavour and daring do from worlds where pistons and clockwork are king. Each short story explores a different steampunk world or alternate history, from the Wild West to the sewers below Venice. Starring scientists, detectives, criminals, and more strange technology than you can shake a pair of brass goggles at.
So get on board and ride the mainspring to adventure.
Great collection of Steampunk shorts,
There are 10 stories in all, a couple involving the same characters but most stand-alone, and all entertaining. My favourite two were Urban Drift, just for the setting of a city with ever-moving houses drifting along a network of streets; and Bullets, a tale of intrigue set in a world not dissimilar to that of the Inquisition – a struggle between religion, science and the ruling houses.
It’s clear that Knighton is a talented writer with a fertile imagination. Definitely one to watch. Recommended.
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