Dr. Thaddeus Quentin is a brilliant scientist in search of lost components of Babbage's Difference Engine. To get it, he hires the help of 'Cracker' Jack Smith, a rough-and-tumble adventurer, ready to seek out any object...for a price. Circumstances bring them together and their quest brings them to the jungles of South America, where they are faced with the steam-powered, mechanical terror known only as... The Colossus.
Dr. Thaddeus Quentin is a brilliant scientist in search of lost components of Babbage's Difference Engine. To get it, he hires the help of 'Cracker' Jack Smith, a rough-and-tumble adventurer, ready to seek out any object...for a price. Circumstances bring them together and their quest brings them to the jungles of South America, where they are faced with the steam-powered, mechanical terror known only as... The Colossus.
The Colossus is a part of New York Times bestselling author Michael Stackpole's Chain Story. The Chain Story is a series of fiction from accomplished writers tied together by the common frame of The Wanderers' Club. This story appeared as the 19th tale in the chain.
Praise for Bryan Young's writing:
"Young's style is terse and crisp. He writes in a way that compels you to keep flipping pages as you delve deeper and deeper" --Huffington Post
"Young’s writing is direct and keeps a quick pace....funny, smart and thought provoking..." --[insertgeekhere]
"The highest praise one can give is to say that it inspired me..." --Austin Post
Young's influence from Indiana Jones, the pulpy novels the Chain Story is an obvious conceit to, and serialized tv and films is pretty clear. In lesser hands this might be dismissed as derivative. But this gets to be a lot of fun as soon as it gets going.
Bryan Young works across many different mediums. As a film producer, his last two films (“This Divided State” and “Killer at Large”) were released by The Disinformation Company and were called “filmmaking gold” by The New York Times. He’s also published comic books with Slave Labor Graphics and Image Comics. He’s a contributor for the Huffington Post and the founder and editor in chief of the geek news and review site Big Shiny Robot!
He is also the author of "Lost at the Con" and "Man Against the Future"
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The Colossus is a part...