The Questionable Tales: a Steampunk Trio

            My college's theatre put on a marvelous production of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale this spring. In addition to being marvelously well done, the show was costumed and staged with Steampunk. Steampunk is a genre of literature that examines an alternative history of the world. It asks what might have happened had mankind focused on steam as a powerful resource during the Victorian era; would new technologies have developed? Truly, it's an interesting and fun world to play in. More can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk .

            Regardless, as a result of the show's brilliant costuming and staging, I felt inspired to write a short collection of Steampunk stories. So, I offer The Questionable Tales: a Steampunk Trio for your review:

            Amid an alternative world of airships, cogs, and steam, the Questionable travels the globe, carrying the wealthy and powerful. Aboard the dirigible, high society gambles, relaxes, and plays. Yet, all is not peaceful. Within these Steampunk tales, morals are questioned, love is tested, and clouds float by, oblivious to human suffering.

            The Questionable Tales offer the reader a brief collection of thought-provoking stories amid an alternative world. Indeed, what could be achieved had mankind better used the power of steam? In this changed Victorian world, the Questionable flies. An airship designed for and by the wealthy, she floats above the world. Within this collection, three stories of the sleek vessel come to light. In A Questionable Affair, an insulted man must protect the villain he is also forced to kill. Two impoverished lovers, awarded passage aboard the Questionable, find their love and morals tested amid a new world of opulence in Unattainable Tangibility. Finally, A Means to Produce asks how the world might be changed if Karl Marx had become disillusioned with Europe. Traveling to the Raj, the Communist find a new audience to inspire, and India is forever changed.

            Soon, it will be available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and many other online eBook stores. Currently, it is free for download at Smashwords at the following link: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/61351 .

(Smashwords is an incredibly wonderful site devoted to independent authors)

I hope you enjoy the new world and my adventures within it!