SteampunX: Episode One: Funk and Puck

In the Victorian tradition, SteampunX is a serial novel released monthly starting in October 2011.
It’s 1875 on the Columbian calendar. Anowarakowa, the New World, has been at peace for a century. By treaty and vigilance the land has been divided among the English Colonies in the Northeast, New France in the South, the Aztecs in the West, and the League of Ten Hundred Nations in the Midwest.
Deep in the woods of the Ten Hundred Nations, the man called Thunder creates miracles from wire, wood ...