Here's the last in this series of Steampunk reviews. More Steampunk reviews here Title - Liberator Author - Richard Harland Published in Australia by Allen & Unwin, by Helium in Frnce, Templar in the UK and Jacoby & Stuart in Germany. It'll come out from Simon & Schuster in the US, but the release date there hasn't arrived yet. ISBN13: 9782358510578) This is a good book and well worth a read, but read the sequel, 'Worldshaker' first. In it you'll meet the juggernauts, huge machines on rollers or tracks that travel the world on steampower and use masses of coal. The jugernauts are basically cities on wheels and have a similar social strata as the real Victorian period. The world Richard has created is quite amazing and well thought through. The machinery that runs these juggernauts are well described so that you get a sense of their enormous scale and complexity.  The events in Le liberator take place post revolution and the problems now are inner power struggles and … [Read more...]