Aethunium - A Steampunk Story - Chapter 1 and 2
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Last published Tue, Feb 19, 2013
A newly discovered crystal can warp time and space.
It exists in one coal mine in England, and the Prussians want it!
Rupert Mueller Freiherr von Landheim, is a forty-year-old widower and an agent in an alternative steampunk Kaiserreich Germany. He is about to receive the biggest assignment of his life. A mysterious batch of history-transforming crystals has been found in a coal mine in Birmingham. The Kaiser believes the crystals can warp time and space, which would render the British Empire absolutely invincible. Mueller’s job is to steal them!
Join us on a special mission through Victorian England and Kaiser Wilhelm Germany as Rupert Mueller, a classy spy who loves cigars and scotch, travels with his flying motorcar to restore the balance of power, and perhaps even find a new mother for his four-year-old daughter.
An adventurous steampunk story which has all the elements to draw readers - of any generation.
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