Captain Albion Clemens and the Future That Never Was — Kin S. Law

Pillage and plunder is what air pirates do, but for Albion Clemens, that's going to have to wait. The Manchu Marauder is a bit distracted in finding his American stepfather, Captain Samuel, lost to the wayward winds of a Steam Age Europe. In all likelihood, the man's been captured by armed harlots who wear their corsets on the outside. It wouldn't be the first time.

Unfortunately, what Captain Samuel has done is stolen the Laputian Leviathan, a powerful pirate artifact that's got agents of Queen and calamity sniffing at his coattails. More annoyingly, the skies are a-twitter with rumors of some nefarious theft. Someone is ripping up and stealing national landmarks, leaving the aerial navies of Europe helpless- an idea so ludicrous it has to be true. With the aid of a buxom detective Inspector, a seditionist British journalist and a knife-happy helmswoman, can Albion get to his pa before their high-flying pirate life is transformed into the Future that Never Was?

Albion's story is a steampunk romp that approaches in a different direction from the genre's Victorian roots.It asks a fundamental question: What would the future be like if technology imitated the past? Dive into a world full of retro-futurism, full of ideas at once familiar and unsettling in the gaslight. Look through the eyes of its inhabitants and see what was, what is, and what in your wildest dreams could be. Welcome, everyone, to the Future that Never Was.