Steampunk short novel, opening act of a vast steampunk "The Shadows of Mars". In this story, in the year 1911 the engineer Salomon Kazimierskj is living a bad misadventure. About the Shadows of in a world once conquered by martians, now all dead, mankind start a new era, made of weird machines, mistery and politics. In a Europe plagued by war, spies, secrets and even an evil cult who tries to bring back the alien invaders, the town of Nice, in southern France, is the center of weird events. Chapters of this saga
0-Cold Hell (short novel, prologue), 1-Clockwork (novel), 2-The Airship to Mars (novel), 3-Mechanical Shadow (novel).
Recently added even a 4th 4-Artificial Life (novel)
This short novel is ideal if you want to understand if you may like the entire saga without spend too much money.