Gateway to Rust and Ruin
By Robert E. VardemanPublisher Description
Sir Francis Barstow has unlimited funds from the alchemist's dream--he can transmute lead into gold with a special ray confined to a Cornish coal mine. To exhaust generated fumes from the electrical equipment, he uses a strange black portal only a foot in diameter--the portal opens onto an entire new dimension, the World of Rust.
Other, larger holes have appeared across the world. The Kaiser uses one to smuggle contraband from the United States into Switzerland in preparation for launching a great war, but he is opposed by a brilliant scientist unwilling to thrust the world into such devastation. To achieve his ends, the scientist explores the Rust World to scavenge technology unavailable anywhere else.
Sir Francis, with the lovely French aviatrix Nicole Larouse, find themselves in conflict with the Kaiser, his subjects and those who would use the strange black portals to a different world for their own purposes.
As a bonus, the short story "The Transmogrification Ray" detailing Sir Francis' researches (originally published in the anthology Steampunk'd) is included, along with notes on this exciting new steampunk universe.
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About Robert E. Vardeman
Robert E. Vardeman has published more than 100 novels and scores of short stories in his 40 year career. He writes fantasy, sf, mysteries, steampunk and high-tech thrillers in addition to westerns both traditional and weird. Jackson Lowry and Karl Lassiter are two of those awards-nominated pen names.
He worked as an instructor for Longridge Writers Institute from 2006 until 2014. He has been on the editorial staff for FSWA award-winning fantasy football magazines since 2007 and has co-edited anthologies (with Scott Phillips) Career Guide to Your Job in Hell and (with Joan Spicci Saberhagen) Golden Reflections. In addition to being a mentor for graduate level writing students at Arizona State University, he works on the staff of www.22Literary.com
He lives in Albuquerque, NM and enjoys the high-tech hobby of geocaching.
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