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The Forever Engine

By: Frank Chadwick
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
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The exciting debut of a steampunk masterpiece from legendary game author and creator of the staple steampunk role playing game, Space: 1889. The stunning unveiling of a perfectly formed steampunk past, from an author who helped define the genre.

London 1888. His Majesty's airships troll the sky powered by antigrav liftwood as a cabal of Iron Lords tightens its hold on a Britain choked by the fumes of industry. Mars has been colonized, and clockwork assassins stalk the European corridors of power. And somewhere far to the east, the Old Man of the Mountains plots the end of the world with his Forever Engine.

Enter Jack Fargo. Scholar. Former special forces operator in Afghanistan. A man from our own near future thrust back in time - or to wherever it is that this Brave Victorian World actually exists. Aided only by an elderly Scottish physicist, a young British officer of questionable courage, and a beautiful but mysterious spy for the French Commune, Fargo is a man on a mission: save the future from irrevocable destruction when the Forever Engine is brought to full power and blows this universe, and our own, to smithereens.

©2014 Frank Chadwick (P)2020 Tantor
Science Fiction Steampunk Time Travel Fiction
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An American sucked back into an almost unrecognizable world of the 1880s. Lots of actions and twists you will never see coming

steampunk to the max

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Great realistic amalgamation of military, suspense, and science fiction. Excellent reading made for a great story. Had trouble stopping the story.

What’s not to love?

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I could not finish this book. The story was probably good, but the reader's performance was so slow that it was not enjoyable. I tried increasing the voice speed as much as 1.4, but still couldn't sit through the book. Poor choice in the reader!!

Story might be ok be the reader is not

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If that sort of thing doesn't turn you off, this book has a bit of interesting stuff about war and soldiers, some science and a plot that moves forward.

I quit at the lecture on Asberger's Syndrome

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The characters are flat and cliché, the plot is flat and cliché, the world building is interesting but sense I don’t care about the people or what they are doing it’s hard to care about the world building. I’m only 5 hours in so it might get better but I’m not spending any more of my time on it.

An interesting premise poorly executed.

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