The Tower of Babbage (steampunk thriller) [NOOK Book]

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The Chronicles of a Gentlewoman series of steampunk thrillers tells the tale of Lady Aldora Fiske. Feeling the weight of society's expectations upon her shoulders, she travels the world seeking adventure, protecting the innocent and punishing the wicked. Her second story takes her to South America

A motion-picture crew has gone missing in the mysterious jungles of Southern ...
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The Tower of Babbage (steampunk thriller)

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Overview

The Chronicles of a Gentlewoman series of steampunk thrillers tells the tale of Lady Aldora Fiske. Feeling the weight of society's expectations upon her shoulders, she travels the world seeking adventure, protecting the innocent and punishing the wicked. Her second story takes her to South America

A motion-picture crew has gone missing in the mysterious jungles of Southern Mexico while filming ancient Mayan ruins. Desperate to learn the fate of an old friend, gentlewoman Aldora Fiske sponsors an expedition into the heart of the rainforest.

Little does she realize that the filmmakers were not the only ones interested in the clockwork secrets that Charles Babbage left behind. Can she rescue the crew, or is she already too late to save the man she once loved?

This 17,000 word novelette is the second in the Chronicles of a Gentlewoman cycle of steampunk thrillers.

Excerpt:

The torch crackled and spat in her hand as twelve-year-old Penelope Robinson crept through the stone corridors under the ruin. This was more like it. This was the sort of thing she loved most about her life. Most girls her age would be enrolled in some stuffy private day school, or sent to a work house, but she got to travel the world, visiting exotic places, seeing amazing sights. When she grew up she wanted to be just like her father.

No, she'd never heard of a famous girl explorer, but there had to be a first one, right?

Her fingertips traced the ancient carvings set into the walls as she walked along. They didn't look like the ones she'd seen in Egypt, all painted on. These were carved into the stone, square, set in very precise columns.

She stopped, noticing that a section had a slightly different texture, a minor variation in the grain of the carved limestone. While in the same general style as the rest of the designs, there were subtle differences. Penny couldn't really put a name to it, but the figures seemed more... precise. Regular. The limestone was rough, less worn by the passage of millennium.
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940015594362
  • Publisher: Pomoconsumption Press
  • Publication date: 10/9/2012
  • Series: Chronicles of a Gentlewoman , #2
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 108
  • Sales rank: 295,555
  • File size: 918 KB

Meet the Author

Michael Coorlim is a writer of character driven fiction about unconventional people in remarkable circumstances. He is the author of the best-selling Steampunk mystery series "The Bartleby and James Adventures" and "Chronicles of a Gentlewoman". In his spare time, he screenwrites for local Chicago production companies.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 24, 2012

    Print to small!!

    I just brought this book, and I have enjoyed, what I have read so far, but the print is to small and it want adjust to larger print, on my reader or on the NOOK on pc.

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    Posted October 10, 2012

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