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Scarlet Traces
Has anyone else read these rather swish Steampunk graphic novels?
I had the pleasure of receiving them for christmas and I've been happily thumbing through Scarlet Traces and it's sequel The Great Game since. If you don't know what Scarlet Traces is, then the idea is this...
...Basically it's a sequel to War of the Worlds. In the book it never suggests that the Martians landed anywhere other than Britain. So when the Martians all die out, they leave all this wonderful technology lying around for the industrious Victorians to incorporate into their lives and help the British Empire gain (and hold onto) 2/3's of the world's surface.
London Cabbies and Royal Cavalry have given up their traditional mounts for spider legged machines, while a modified version of the martian heat ray keep homes warm.
However, all these luxuries come at a price. One which is explored in terrible detail in Scarlet Traces.
Has anyone else read these wonderful books? What did you think of them?
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And then a chubby puppy with teensy legs rolls past which makes me giggle like a little school girl and forget what I was thinking about...
Breathing heard just below the floorboards.
The sense of something terrible rousing itself from
from its torpor.
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