Can you ever truly atone for the sins of the past? When British detective Alton Bartleby mustered out of the Royal Navy a decade ago, he saw his family with new eyes. Saw how his father's love of drink and his sisters' and mother's lavish lifestyle was quickly draining the modest fortune he'd managed to acquire. Perhaps rashly, perhaps justifiably, he had his father committed and the women exiled to America, arranging a wealthy husband for his elder sister Sarah. He spent the next ten years restoring his family name and fortune, while working as a consulting detective in London. He didn't...
Can you ever truly atone for the sins of the past? When British detective Alton Bartleby mustered out of the Royal Navy a decade ago, he saw his famil...
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Edwardian society insists Aldora Fiske be ever the proper gentlewoman. The Empire demands she be a credit to her family name. Her heart demands she seek adventure, and the further from London she travels, the louder its drumming becomes. Join her as she travels to the skies, to the jungles of Mexico, and to the heart of the Ottoman Empire.
Obligation and justice collide in this second Galvanic Century novel.
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Galvanic Century is set in an alternate steampunk world where the reign of Queen Victoria has extended well into the early 20th century. As the world edges inexorably towards a World War that few can even begin to anticipate, brave men and women must contend with airship pirates, clockwork assassins, galvanic monsters, and anarchist madmen.
It's been a rough year for gentlewoman Aldora Fiske - airship battles above London, doomed expeditions in the jungles of Mexico, and even a kidnapping in Istanbul - and now her bridegroom Alton Bartleby has shown up drunk to their wedding. Yes, it's...
Galvanic Century is set in an alternate steampunk world where the reign of Queen Victoria has extended well into the early 20th century. As the wor...
The world is ending, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. How do people cope with loss on an unimaginable scale? How does humanity stand its last hours? With the values we've developed over our reign on this Earth, or with the terrible freedom that comes with knowing that there won't be any consequences for our actions? A cop, a kidnapper, a doomsday cultist, a news anchor, and partygoers at the end of the world. Will they learn to cope, or succumb to the nihilistic madness around them? This collection contains the stories "Denial," "Anger," "Bargaining," "Depression," and...
The world is ending, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. How do people cope with loss on an unimaginable scale? How does humanity stand its la...
Detectives Alton Bartleby and James Wainwright's latest case will take them to the boundaries of Edwardian psychiatry and beyond. There's been a murder in the Bedford Mental Hospital, and the patients have taken over to ensure that justice is done. Will the conflicts caused by Bartleby's recent wedding rend their partnership apart, or can the detectives keep their focus long enough to solve the case, before Scotland Yard's impatience leads to the hanging of a scapegoat? Dreams of the Damned is the fourth in the Galvanic Century series of steampunk mystery thrillers.
Detectives Alton Bartleby and James Wainwright's latest case will take them to the boundaries of Edwardian psychiatry and beyond. There's been a murde...
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Dilettante Alton Bartleby, inventor James Wainwright, and gentlewoman Aldora Fiske solve mysteries and resolve injustice across the globe in a steampunk Edwardian era where galvanic killers stalk the night, sky pirates plague the skies, and Queen Victoria yet rules from her platinum throne.
Contains the "Collected Bartleby and James Adventures, A Gentlewoman's Chronicles, March of the Cogsmen, " and "Dreams of the Damned."
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Inventor James Wainwright's greatest desire is to be left alone in his workshop, where he can focus on invention and engineering unsullied by the messiness of London society and the meaningless concerns of its upper classes. His financial patron, gentleman Alton Bartleby, has higher aspirations. To continue to receive funding James will have to venture out into the outside world as a detective, turning his inventive genius to the creation of new forensic technologies. Bartleby and James is a steampunk mystery collection that tells the story of the detectives' foray into private investigation....
Inventor James Wainwright's greatest desire is to be left alone in his workshop, where he can focus on invention and engineering unsullied by the mess...
James Wainwright always considered himself a working-class engineer playing at detective, never taking the vocation for more than an idle hobby and opportunity to test some of his steampunk inventions. His investigations have always been more of a means of humoring his business partner, idle toff Alton Bartleby. That was before his adopted daughter Xin Yan was taken. Never comfortable in social situations, James finds himself tracking his daughter's kidnappers from London's Limehouse to the gritty streets of Hong Kong, down paths where his mechanical know-how won't serve him. Searching a...
James Wainwright always considered himself a working-class engineer playing at detective, never taking the vocation for more than an idle hobby and op...
The future is a cold place when you don't have a past.
Finding herself alone on the streets of 2025's Chicago, Erica Crawford struggles to come to grips with the massive social and technological changes that took place over a decade she can't remember. With no savings, no recent work history, no contacts, and very little government assistance, it's all she can do to try and adapt while avoiding death at the hands of mysterious strangers who seem determined to end her.
The only clues she has to her missing years are a set of highly honed skills that seem more suited to a...
The future is a cold place when you don't have a past.
Finding herself alone on the streets of 2025's Chicago, Erica Crawford struggl...
The family you choose can get you killed. Spring has come to Chicago, but it hasn't brought recent-amnesiac Erica Crawford much relief. While her memories of the last decade have yet to return, her attention is focused on the massive public housing Block she calls home - and the vicious gangs targeting her climate refugee neighbors. It'll take every last one of Erica's phenomenal skills to help her community protect themselves from the intolerance stirred up against them, but if she fails they'll all pay the price. Network Protocol is the second book in the Shadow Decade series of cyberpunk...
The family you choose can get you killed. Spring has come to Chicago, but it hasn't brought recent-amnesiac Erica Crawford much relief. While her memo...
