I can’t let my alter ego AZGaye have all the fun here today. Although it is not pure steam punk I did do a story awhile back that has some elements of the genre mixed with a bit of sci-fi and some pure –no, let’s make that IMpure– rowdy and silly fun.  The title is Tom Fleet’s Incredible Machine. The whole thing is pretty tongue-i n- cheek and almost a spoof of the whole space exploration and steam punk genres. I don’t usually try to write humor but that story just happened. Here is the cover, blurb and a buy link for you! A PG-13  excerpt will follow shortly.

Tom Fleet cover

http://www.amberquill.com/store/p/1314-Tom-Fleet-s-Incredible-Machine.aspx   Blurb: Tom Fleet was a bit of a misfit as the second son of a minor English noble in the 1880s. Once he finished his schooling he had little to do. His grandfathers had left him adequate finances for his needs and with his elder brother set to take the title, he gave in to his fascination with gadgets and began to tinker and invent. His goal was to create a sky craft to go to the moon. Surely if Jules Verne’s characters could go there and many other places, he could do as well.

Rowan Farrell followed in his Uncle Gordon’s footsteps, joining the UniFleet, but went a step farther and became an officer. Assigned to his first command level post, he takes a small patrol ship out to scout a region of interest to the Council and report on any signs of the enemy Angevirian Empire in the area. When one of his crew spots a strange, tiny craft, he decides to capture and study it. After all it could be an Angevirian Trojan horse. But the odd cylindrical vessel holds only one man, unconscious and suffering from hypothermia and lack of oxygen. When the man comes to, he claims to come from the earth””five centuries in the past!