Meanwhile, in an Underground Lair

All of the so-called, conventional scientists called me mad! Mad, I tell you! But I scoff at their pedestrian ideas and boring theories! They wish to keep all the true science for themselves! Not I! I present it to you all to free you from the oppressive yoke of the technocrats!

—Dr. Charles Claremont, Scientist, Quite Mad

You are cordially invited on an adventure. After all, isn’t that what Steampunk is really all about? Adventure? If there were no adventure, this would just be another book you wish you did not have to pretend to like after receiving it as a gift from a kind but woefully misguided friend or relative. But you are lucky, and this is not just any old book you have here. This is The Steampunk Adventurer’s ...

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