Fantastic Tales of Steampunk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781956463996)

The collected steampunk fiction of Award-Winning Author Jeffrey Lyman including the brand-new story "Ice-Locked at Hatter's Island"

The Fall of Autumn

A young girl with exceptional engineering skills and a haunting past must rediscover ages-old precepts for dimensional bridges before all of humanity is torn asunder and communities forever cut off from their lost loved ones, all while fighting off creatures attacking from those dimensional rifts.

The Troll King

An unlikely candidate for a survival challenge, Jack is called to stand with the other first sons of the kingdoms though he has barely a withered leg to stand on. Only Jack's cunning more than makes up for his physical handicaps. He not only outsmarts the Troll King's traps, but sees to it that many others survive the challenges as well. Jack's goal is not merely to survive, but to break the cycle.

Ice-Locked at Hatter's Island

Here there be monsters... And that's no lie. When a passenger ship is stranded, ice-bound over waters of which ominous tales are told, rescuers must battle the elements, the unknown, and time itself to bring the survivors safely home.

The Camera

They say a camera's lens can capture the soul. But one hobbyist photographer discovers a chilling truth when his photographs reveal a more damning threat trapped in the hull of an airship found floating adrift over The Harrow, a cursed land cutting off provinces of the Empire one by one. Will the warning come in time, or will all be lost to the darkness?

The Ring of Hours and Seconds

A thief in a thriving megapolis is trapped into a foolish job, an unsanctioned theft from a tower only the most frightening of necromancers dares to inhabit. In his success, he learns there are greater things to fear... an only the most cunning are apt to survive.