Abaddon Books has just published its first 99 cent eBook, The Ulysses Quicksilver Short Story Collection by Jonathan Green, now available through the Kindle store and iTunes. PR Coordinator Michael Molcher writes “fans of Boy’s Own adventure and insane steampunk shenanigans will love this thrilling collection of short stories following the dandy, detective and adventurer Ulysses Quicksilver—the perfect introduction to the acclaimed steampunk world of Pax Britannia.
“In Fruiting Bodies a gruesome death leads Ulysses and his manservant Nimrod to the glasshouses of Kew, bringing them face to face with the horrors lurking within. A Hallowe’en séance leads our intrepid duo into a close encounter with the world beyond in Vanishing Point, while in White Rabbit, Ulysses journeys into a world of madness and murder, meeting some sinisterly familiar characters along the way.”
The eBook is being published in part to attract readers to the entire seven-volume Pax Britannia series, now also available as eBooks. The series was created by Green, and is “a steampunk alternative history set in a late twentieth century in which Queen Victoria—now nearing the end of her sixteenth decade on the throne, and wholly dependent on steam technology for survival—rules over the vastly wealthy, powerful, and decadent Empire of Magna Britannia. Airships ply the skies overhead as gentlemen of leisure admire the dinosaurs in London Zoo, while the Empire has extended to the Moon. Across the pond, the United Socialist States of America, loosely allied with the might of Magna Britannia, is home to dreamers, poets, madmen, and heroes, poised to usher in a new era.”