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A signed numbered limited edition (50 copies only) hardback novella with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.
This is book #26 of 50 copies only and is SIGNED by Fabio Fernandes on the limitation page.
This is Book #1 in Newcon’s Steampunk novella quartet. The quartet comprises four novellas, each containing a tale of epic steampunk excitement squeezed within the covers of a novella. Four independent stories by four outstanding authors, linked only by their cover art.
SYNOPSIS: “A rip-roaring steampunk novella featuring a reality-hopping female protagonist who has to contend with gender prejudice in Victorian London, and a plot that pays homage to H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds and Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth while weaving an explosive narrative all its own.
As an Oneironaut and agent of the Fellowship, January Purcell is used to danger and thinking on her feet, having faced threats up and down the timeline and in various realities; all part of the Great and Long Game. Nothing, however, could have prepared her for the extremes demanded by this latest mission, which sees her accompany Dr Robert Jones and his colleagues on a journey from the heart of Victorian London to Iceland, following in the footsteps of Professor Lidenbrock and the alchemist (and, it turns out, fellow Oneironaut) Arne Saknussemm.
Denied the support of her colleagues at London’s Oneiros Club due to her gender, January must rely on her own resources as she descends into the extinct volcano Snæfellsjökull, little imagining what she will encounter there, little realising that this is all merely a prelude to a long-planned invasion from Earth’s near neighbour, Mars…”
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