Timepiece: A Steampunk Time-Travel Adventure (Keeping Time) - Softcover

Albano, Heather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938808355 ISBN 13: 9781938808357

Publisher: Stillpoint/Prometheus, 2017

Synopsis

You only THINK you know what happened at Waterloo.The real story involved several more monsters. And a lot more time travel.It's 1815, and Wellington's badly-outnumbered army stares across the field of Waterloo at Napoleon's forces. Desperate to hold until reinforcements arrive, Wellington calls upon a race of monsters created by a mad Genevese scientist 25 years before.

It's 1815, and a discontented young lady sitting in a rose garden receives a mysterious gift: a pocket watch that, when opened, displays scenes from all eras of history. Past...and future.

It's 1885, and a small band of resistance fighters are resorting to increasingly extreme methods in their efforts to overthrow a steampunk Empire whose clockwork gears are slick with its subjects blood.

Are these events connected?


Oh, come now. That would be telling.
"Waterloo and time travel are made for each other and Heather Albano has done a wonderful job of giving us a delightful cast of characters, tasked with stitching together the proper nineteenth century while fending off several monstrous alternatives. Propulsive adventure with historical insight." - Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars and 2312

About this title

About the Author

Heather Albano is a storyteller, history geek, and lover of both time-travel tropes and re-imaginings of older stories. You most likely know her from her game design work (which most recently included A Study In Steampunk, produced by Choice of Games, and contributions to TimeWatch and The Dracula Dossier, both published by Pelgrane Press) but she writes non-interactive fiction too. Like the Keeping Time trilogy.

Review

Waterloo and time travel are made for each other and Heather Albano has done a wonderful job of giving us a delightful cast of characters, tasked with stitching together the proper nineteenth century while fending off several monstrous alternatives. Propulsive adventure with historical insight. --Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars and 2312

If Jane Austen and Mary Shelley had locked H. G. Wells in a dungeon and revised his wildest work, the result would have been something like this rollicking steampunk time-travel adventure that still manages to be a comedy of manners. Albano s delightful characters confront the not only monsters and killer robots, but their own divided loyalties between personal happiness and the fate of their country. --Ken Schneyer, The Law & the Heart

Austen, meet Waterloo. When a genteel 1815 heiress is given a strange watch, she time-travels to an 1885 England where history has gone hideously wrong. Now she has to change it back to what it should have been and that never works out well, does it? A delicious supercharged blend of steampunk and the Napoleonic Wars, with a thrill on every page. --Sarah Smith, The Vanished Child

Edition details

• Publisher: Stillpoint/Prometheus
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1938808355
• ISBN 13: 9781938808357
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 262