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Ether Frolics: Nine Steampunk Tales

Name: Ether Frolics: Nine Steampunk Tales
Rating: 3.93 (15 reviews)
Author: Paul Marlowe

Paul Marlowe

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A collection of nine steampunk stories drawn from the archives of the Etheric Explorers Club, a Victorian society dedicated to exploring the mysteries of the etheric realm… The visions of a Russian painter in fin-de-siècle Paris… a terrible weapon that almost no-one has survived… a confession within a confession… a crime from antiquity resurfacing -beneath- the Thames… a desperate search for a lost sister… a contemporary horror entwined with an ancient manuscript… an experiment gone wrong… a lost world which should have remained lost… and a night of dining, death, and romance.

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