Thursday, May 5, 2005
Off On A Comet
Steampunk ChroniclesA 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 ChroniclesA 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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The World Set Free
Steampunk ChroniclesThe 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 ChroniclesA 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 ChroniclesThe 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 ChroniclesAn 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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Friday, April 8, 2005
The Time Machine - Japanese Edition
Steampunk ChroniclesA dreamer obsessed with traveling through time builds himself a machine and travels over 800,000 years into the future. The known world has been transformed and human society has finally learned to live in apparent harmony and bliss. But as the Traveler stays in this realm of the future he discovers a terrible secret. The human population is merely livestock for a hidden subterranean class of mutants.
NOTE: The Japanese language version follows the standard publishing layout of reading right to left. Therefore, the reader begins at the back of the book.
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The Time Machine
Steampunk ChroniclesA dreamer obsessed with traveling through time builds himself a machine and travels over 800,000 years into the future. The known world has been transformed and human society has finally learned to live in apparent harmony and bliss. But as the Traveler stays in this realm of the future he discovers a terrible secret. The human population is merely livestock for a hidden subterranean class of mutants.
Buy it On-line: Softback






