Airfleets Over Ostend A Steampunk Short Story

Download or read book Airfleets Over Ostend (a steampunk short story) written by J.P. Medved and published by J.P. Medved. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third short story in the Clockwork Imperium series. The mysterious and alluring Myra Abernathy has disappeared without a trace, and Henry Emerson is left wondering just who she really was, and who she really worked for. But dark events in Europe soon overtake him, cutting short his search for the American woman. A Flemish rebellion in Belgium threatens King Leopold II, and Henry's airship, the Bellerophon, with the rest of the British Air Navy's Second Squadron, is sent to help. With his friends James and Raheem aboard, Henry and the squadron are tasked with retaking the Belgian aerodrome by the coastal town of Ostend. But as Henry steers the Bellerophon into position, he can't help but wonder at the letter Myra left for him. A letter that warns things are not as they seem on the European continent and that someone behind the scenes is secretly maneuvering the great powers like pieces on a chessboard, for reasons unknown and sinister. Airfleets Over Ostend is a 13,000 word (50 pages) steampunk novella.

Download or read book Under the Heel of the Aether Imperium written by J.P. Medved and published by J.P. Medved. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arla Lightrider is the newest captain of the Profit and Luck, her late father's aether tradeship. She plans to follow in his footsteps, shuttling cargo through the tradelanes as a member of the Galactic Merchants Compact. Though her work is complicated by the new Imperium government's crackdown on the Compact's unregulated free traders, she thinks she can handle anything the stars throw at her. But when a strange alien offers to pay her handsomely for transport to a fringe world, she becomes caught in a conspiracy that could shake the foundations of the new galactic order. For her passenger carries something the Imperium desperately wants; something it is willing to kill to possess or destroy. And, Arla soon learns, despite the new government's brutal consolidation of power, there are still pockets of resistance alive throughout the galaxy. Not everyone is content to live under the heel of the Aether Imperium. Under the Heel of the Aether Imperium is a 12,000 word steampunk space opera novella.

Download or read book Steampunk Voyages written by Irene Radford and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short Steampunk Fiction by Irene Radford and Julia Verne St. John