High Crimes and Miscreants

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Steampunk, Fiction & Literature, Historical
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Author: D. L. Mackenzie ISBN: 9781476299372
Publisher: D. L. Mackenzie Publication: September 3, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: D. L. Mackenzie
ISBN: 9781476299372
Publisher: D. L. Mackenzie
Publication: September 3, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Phineas Magnetron is an eccentric Nineteenth Century inventor and former Union soldier who sustained a war injury which has unaccountably bestowed upon him a strange gift he doesn't completely understand. No stranger to peril and derring-do, Phineas is asked to join the Hogalum Society, an inscrutable secret organization of crime fighting adventurers, by none other than Society founder Dr. Yngve Hogalum.

Traveling the globe in their Luftigel electric airship, Phineas Magnetron and his Hogalum brothers encounter mistrustful policemen, mentally ill criminals, wood-craving aliens, a witch doctor, a mad oracle, and a cross-dressing female matador, among many others. However, this "steam dream team" always manages to triumph over impossible odds and improbable obstacles as they preserve order in a disorderly world with all the Steam Age weird science they can muster.

The Magnetron Chronicles is a serialized steampunk tale re-envisioning the future of generations past with all the breathless melodrama and tumult of that Victorian-era pulp fiction staple, the "penny dreadful." The narrative harks back to the grandiose style of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, but gently satirized with a sprinkling of purposeful anachronisms, double entendres, tongue-in-cheek inventions, and droll Twainian humor. Adapted from "The Secret Journals of Phineas J. Magnetron," a web serial characterized by short chapters with cliffhanger endings, the story builds chapter by chapter, volume by volume, as quirky new characters join the fray and perplexing new mysteries and situations arise.

The Magnetron Chronicles is a planned 12-volume series of novelette-length volumes. In this fourth volume, "High Crimes and Miscreants," Phineas Magnetron and the Hogalum Society find themselves the victims of a breathtakingly treacherous plot hatched by the perfidious League of Miscreants. Framed, captured, jailed, and betrayed by one of their own, Magnetron and his compatriots must regain their freedom despite overwhelming evidence against them. In the process, they solve a host of burning mysteries, and set the stage for a pivotal confrontation with a criminal mastermind.

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Phineas Magnetron is an eccentric Nineteenth Century inventor and former Union soldier who sustained a war injury which has unaccountably bestowed upon him a strange gift he doesn't completely understand. No stranger to peril and derring-do, Phineas is asked to join the Hogalum Society, an inscrutable secret organization of crime fighting adventurers, by none other than Society founder Dr. Yngve Hogalum.

Traveling the globe in their Luftigel electric airship, Phineas Magnetron and his Hogalum brothers encounter mistrustful policemen, mentally ill criminals, wood-craving aliens, a witch doctor, a mad oracle, and a cross-dressing female matador, among many others. However, this "steam dream team" always manages to triumph over impossible odds and improbable obstacles as they preserve order in a disorderly world with all the Steam Age weird science they can muster.

The Magnetron Chronicles is a serialized steampunk tale re-envisioning the future of generations past with all the breathless melodrama and tumult of that Victorian-era pulp fiction staple, the "penny dreadful." The narrative harks back to the grandiose style of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, but gently satirized with a sprinkling of purposeful anachronisms, double entendres, tongue-in-cheek inventions, and droll Twainian humor. Adapted from "The Secret Journals of Phineas J. Magnetron," a web serial characterized by short chapters with cliffhanger endings, the story builds chapter by chapter, volume by volume, as quirky new characters join the fray and perplexing new mysteries and situations arise.

The Magnetron Chronicles is a planned 12-volume series of novelette-length volumes. In this fourth volume, "High Crimes and Miscreants," Phineas Magnetron and the Hogalum Society find themselves the victims of a breathtakingly treacherous plot hatched by the perfidious League of Miscreants. Framed, captured, jailed, and betrayed by one of their own, Magnetron and his compatriots must regain their freedom despite overwhelming evidence against them. In the process, they solve a host of burning mysteries, and set the stage for a pivotal confrontation with a criminal mastermind.

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