Review: not bad alternate history
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2013
My first experience with steam punk. I got it for free recently. It is not a real long book, more of a novella.I did not believe the steam powered walker was even remotely possible, even with modern technology and control systems it is not practical, but that was a minor part of the story.I also found the rigid airship technology that was used as being unlikely as well. I didn't see anyway you were going to get a rigid airship to Siberia. And there was the goofy technology that the author tried to describe that substituted for parachutes I found implausible as well.The story did not focus on the technology much though. Most of the story focused around the attempt to rescue a nuclear scientist and his daughter from the Bolsheviks in an alternate 1917 universe before he can create an atomic bomb for the Bolsheviks. Some of it was pretty plausible, but lots of it I found not so plausible, both the alternate history and the story line itself.But, I did find it moderately enjoyable reading so I gave it three stars. I think the author is asking 99 cents normally and it is worth 99 cents to me.