{"product_id":"stormbuckler-and-the-leviscopic-engine-9798376763926","title":"Stormbuckler and the Leviscopic Engine","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Neil Mach\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Steampunk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan machinery corrupt a person's soul? Is it possible to break loose from the trap-cycle of mechanical objectification? Will an individual gain a truer sense of self if he or she evades the lure of technological interdependence? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter escaping the Staines parish poorhouse, Stormbuckler rescues one of Asher-John Lindwürm's most essential workers from certain death. After the episode, the American maverick-inventor industrialist and self-made steamillionaire Lindwürm, a new guy in town, rewards Stormbuckler by affording him a position in his corporation's drawing department at a recently opened locomobile manufactory. The job comes with a suit of clothes and a generous salary. Meanwhile, parlour-housemaid Mayotte is likewise looking to improve her lot. She leaves a life of servitude (domestic employment) to join the enterprising (but unorthodox) American inventor's machine-plant as his clerical assistant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStormbuckler and Mayotte discover that outward appearances are deceptive at the American millionaire's manufactory. For a start, people have been disappearing. And Lindwürm engages a gang of ferocious armed thugs who protect his ultrasecret ambitions. Lindwürm also employs an evil second-in-command who has schemes of his own and a very malevolent disposition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat mystery links the unfolding events? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat frightful monstrosity is being constructed in Lindwürm's sinister steam shed 7? What mystery has the ministry agent uncovered about Lindwürm's enterprises? Why does a tribal chief show up in town? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill Stormbuckler help Mayotte? Are he and Mayotte somehow connected? Does the tribal chief have something to do with their connectedness? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill the teenagers escape the menace of a gung-ho technological revolution? Or will they yield to mechatronic modernization? How many more will succumb if Lindwürm an his main henchman, Lassiter, turn their avaricious daydreams into diabolical and dangerous reality?","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45532268527767,"sku":"9798376763926","price":1222.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798376763926.webp?v=1768589029","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/stormbuckler-and-the-leviscopic-engine-9798376763926","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}