{"product_id":"9781938808357","title":"Timepiece: A Steampunk Time-Travel Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou only THINK you know what happened at Waterloo.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe real story involved more monsters. And a lot more time travel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf Jane Austen and Mary Shelley had locked H. G. Wells in a dungeon and revised his wildest work, the result would have been something like this rollicking steampunk time-travel adventure that still manages to be a comedy of manners. Albano’s delightful characters confront the not only monsters and killer robots, but their own divided loyalties between personal happiness and the fate of their country. –\u003c\/em\u003e Ken Schneyer, \u003cem\u003eThe Law \u0026amp; the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt’s 1815\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Wellington’s badly-outnumbered army stares across the field of Waterloo at Napoleon’s forces. Desperate to hold until reinforcements arrive, Wellington calls upon a race of monsters created by a mad Genevese scientist 25 years before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt’s 1815\u003c\/strong\u003e, and a discontented young lady sitting in a rose garden receives a mysterious gift: a pocket watch that, when opened, displays scenes from all eras of history. Past…and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt’s 1885\u003c\/strong\u003e, and a small band of resistance fighters are resorting to increasingly extreme methods in their efforts to overthrow a steampunk Empire whose clockwork gears are slick with its subjects’ blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre these events connected?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, come now. That would be telling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Waterloo and time travel are made for each other and Heather Albano has done a wonderful job of giving us a delightful cast of characters, tasked with stitching together the proper nineteenth century while fending off several monstrous alternatives. Propulsive adventure with historical insight.”\u003c\/em\u003e – Kim Stanley Robinson, \u003cem\u003e2312\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRed Mars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stillpoint Digital Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051651580144,"sku":"9781938808357","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938808357_p0.jpg?v=1763667636","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938808357","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}