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Fidelio's Automata is an alternative history in the "steampunk" genre, set in America in the early 1900's. Historical figures such as Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and labor leader Big Bill Haywood play a part. A stolen invention threatens his dreams. Fidelio Espinoza, a brilliant and idealistic young Cuban, arrives in 1900's America with the goal of perfecting his automaton, a machine that will free humans from the dangerous, backbreaking work of mines and factories. Here he meets Hank, a cowboy turned Quaker who has vowed to atone for his sinful past. After a prototype of Fidelio's creation...

In this novel of a probable near future, America is sliding towards tyranny. Dissident Joel Walter is wanted for a crime he didn't commit. His computer-hacker friend Nephi introduces him to an underworld where technology is Americans' last bastion of freedom and privacy. He helps Joel assume a new identity and disappear into the technological underground. Ever-increasing repression drives Joel, Nephi, and others into open rebellion in a desperate bid to retain their precious liberties.