plucky adventurousness of Victorian sensibilities re-imagined with extra, fantastical machinery."One of Gosling's top ten children's steampunk books, as told to the Guardian:
The Nine-Pound Hammer by Jean Claude BemisRead about another entry on the list.
The first in Bemis's Clockwork Dark Trilogy, The Nine-Pound Hammer is set in the American south at a time when steam engines still pulled passengers across the country and medicine shows entertained the sparse populations with circus acts in the hope of earning a dime or two. Bemis, himself a musician, artfully uses American folklore, music and the stories that his grandfather used to tell him of his hobo life of "train hopping" to weave a fantastic steam-driven fantasy.
--Marshal Zeringue
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