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Series of Australian steampunk adventure stories.
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Steampunk note: This unfinished series engages with common steampunk tropes, including advanced clockwork machinery, and with common cultural images of nineteenth century Australia (though the stories themselves are not actually set in that time period).
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The Cog Work Apprentice in Dark Skies
Australia
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Lee William Tisler
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2012
10498254
2012
single work
novella
science fiction
adventure
'John Lumley Conduit was enjoying his day off from work when hundreds of rebel airships invaded his town.
With the town under attack, John desperately searches for his girlfriend, who has disappeared with his former best friend and romantic rival.
John must overcome bushrangers, invaders, mighty cog-driven machines, and a mysterious man with an agenda to save his girlfriend and his town.
The Cog Work Apprentice in Dark Skies is a steampunk action-adventure set in the Terra Australis town of Tineborough near the end of the twentieth century.'
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