I've not read much steampunk but if this is typical, I'll read much more. It was enchanting. Every page was a new delight. A fabulous story, though the fact I can't remember the very ending a couple of months after I read it might suggest that wasn't as satisfying as the rest. I loved reading it,...
They crawl with unbearable slowness across this small section of near space, beetles climbing a sheer obsidian rock face. Only the sun remains constant. The sun, always, dominates their sky. Inside each jalopy are instrument panels and their like; a sleeping compartment where you must float your ...
TRANSYLVANIA 1944When Fogg thinks of the Carpathians, years later, it is with a mixture of horror and awe. Of the sun rising over a barren hillside, over men like scarecrows impaled on stakes driven into the frozen ground. No flies to mar their faces, frozen in screams of agony. The bodies preser...
He was a finalist for the 2008 Philippines' Free Press Literary Award and is a recipient of the Philippine Graphic/Fiction Award. He is best known for his experimental webcomic, Kare-Kare Komiks, and is a regular cartoonist for The Philippine Star newspaper. So you don't know Spin-Man? Five-nin...
A deer moved amongst the dark trees, smelled humans and gunpowder and went another way. "Everyone present?" "Present and ready." Lucy surveyed her team. They have been with her on the raid in Aksum, and they have been with her in the Bangkok Affair, and in the Zulula...
“Lay down your weapons,” he says. He is an imposing figure, a fatherly white man. Standing against him the chiefs are black against night. In the distance the elephants call to each other. A bird cries overhead.The Ndebele are persuaded to lay down their arms, ending the Second Matabele War.We be...