Imagine if you will that clock towers were built not to tell time but to control it? That a stopped clock could render a city frozen in time and forever inaccessible? That the clock mechanic was the world’s most important occupation? These are the intriguing premises behind Tara Sim’s 2016 young adult fantasy steampunk novel […]
As an aficionado of steampunk, I tend to focus on fiction set in the Gilded Age of the late 19th Century. Yet I enjoy historical fiction from all eras. Halestorm (published 2012) is set in the 1700s and features Revolutionary-era American hero Nathan Hale. Despite the rather lame pun of the title, I was interested […]
As I’ve said before, I love a good title but I don’t know what to make of this one. “Clockwork Dagger” is a phrase akin to “Naked Gun” which is perfect for a work of satire. This book, however, isn’t satire. It takes place in the fictional monarchy of Caskentia where “Clockwork Dagger” is a […]
