If Cly can sneak it past Southern forces, it could end the war. She tells him about the submersible war machine Ganymede, which is hidden at the bottom of Lake Ponchartrain. Ganymede centers on Andan Cly, an airship pirate who is contacted his ex-lover prostitute Josephine Early and asked to come to New Orleans. A Union airship, the Clementine, is transporting needed military supplies and is being pursued by Croggon Beauregard Hainey, a freed slave and known pirate. She finally finds employment with the pro-Union Pinkerton Detective Agency and is given an assignment from the Union government. Not to be confused with the Mary Sue-tiful Star Trek novel Dreadnought!Ĭlementine focuses on Maria Isabella Boyd, a former Confederate spy whose fame has made her unsuitable for spy work. After receiving a telegram that her own Disappeared Dad is dying and wants to see her, she sets forth on a perilous journey across the war-torn states, eventually ending up on the titular Union armored train with a mysterious cargo that the Confederates are desperate to intercept. In Dreadnought 'Mercy' Lynch is a nurse in a war hospital in Richmond. Minnerich, who may well be Zeke's Disappeared Dad. His son Ezekiel Wilkes enters the poisoned city in search of evidence that will clear the family name, and his mother Briar pursues to get him back - both find themselves in peril from Seattle's undead inhabitants, and a sinister figure calling himself Dr. Leviticus Blue, inventor of the eponymous Drill Tank, who then vanished under highly suspicious circumstances. īoneshaker is set in 1880 Seattle, which has been walled off after a Deadly Gas was released from underground by Dr. So far she has written six novels Boneshaker, Dreadnought, Clementine, Ganymede, The Inexplicables and Fiddlehead, and a novelette Tanglefoot which can be read on-line. Oh, and there are also zombies.Ĭherie Priest created the series as a literary magnum opus for Steampunk fans.

The Clockwork Century is an Alternate History created by Cherie Priest, in which the The American Civil War has raged for nearly two decades thanks to Steampunk and Diesel Punk technology.

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