Flamingnet.com just rated STEAMPUNK'D from DAW Books a 9 out of 10.

Includes my story, "Edison Kinetic Light and Steam Power," which is also excerpted in the front of the book!

Excerpt:


Alva Edison knew her life would never be the same.
"It can be done, sister, I know it can," he told her again.
"Thomas, I keep telling you, remember Mr. Franklin? The founding father never signed the Declaration because he foolishly stood out in a rainstorm, with a kite of all things. And stringing a key on the end? How foolhardy. Anyone with common sense knows that you do not want to be near any metal in a storm. No surprise that he was electrocuted. It was such a tragedy that could have been averted."
"But his idea was right," Thomas insisted. "The power of those thunderbolts can be harnessed as a new energy source."
She snorted at that. "Thomas, dear, next you'll be saying that thunderbolts can do all kinds of things, like that kooky Dr. Frankenstein and his outlandish, sacrilegious ideas about life and death. They took him off to the sanitarium and not soon enough, I say. Please stop such talk. I do not want to lose my only brother to some ridiculous notion."
-From "Edison Kinetic Light and Steam Power" by C. A. Verstraete

My website: http://cverstraete.com

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