Thursday, May 5, 2005

The Blockade Runners

Steampunk Chronicles

During the American Civil War a young patriot must break through the Federalist blockade in the harbor of Charleston to rescue a young girl held prisoner by the Confederates.

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The Underground City

Steampunk Chronicles

A deep sub-terrain mine that had been abandoned for decades becomes the location for an underground adventure of mysterious and unexplainable happenings.

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Off On A Comet

Steampunk Chronicles

A comet touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form a mini-society and cope with the hostile environment of the comet.

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The Master of the World

Steampunk Chronicles

A series of unexplained events occur across the Eastern United States. These happenings manifest when objects move with such great speed that they become nearly invisible. The phenomena holds a deadly fate for all of mankind.

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20,000 Leagues Under the Seas

Steampunk Chronicles

The story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax.

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The Mysterious Island

Steampunk Chronicles

Another Victorian era adventure upon the vintage seas, where man must fight against both technology and the forces of nature.

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The World Set Free

Steampunk Chronicles

The story foretells the effects of nuclear weapons decades prior to their usage in warfare. Scientists of the Victorian era were well aware that the slow natural radioactive decay of elements like radium.

While the rate of energy release was negligible, a theoretical trigger could activate the total amount for a huge release of energy. The theory was the basis for the dystopian adventure.

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When the Sleeper Wakes

Steampunk Chronicles

A dystopian story about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London. Because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. A fanatical socialist and author of prophetic writings, the main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and mutations.

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The War of the Worlds

Steampunk Chronicles

The fictional 1901 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars. These being have advanced technology like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and three-legged mechanical fighting machines.

After defeating the human resistance the Martians devastate much of eastern England, before being unexpectedly killed by terrestrial diseases to which they have no immunity.

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The Invisible Man

Steampunk Chronicles

An obscure scientist invents a way to render skin, bones, and blood invisible, and tries the formula on himself. Now he can go anywhere and menace anyone sight unseen. The only problem is that he cannot become visible again and he has gone quite murderously insane as a result.

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The War in the Air

Steampunk Chronicles

A world of aerial combat envisioned a decade prior to World War I. Bert Smallways, a forward-thinking young man, steps from his simple life into a life and death adventure at high speed high above the Earth.

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