Time's Deformèd Hand

Steven R. Southard

Oct 2019 · What Man Hath Wrought Book 12 · Gypsy Shadow Publishing

About this eBook

It’s 1600 in an alternate Switzerland, a world where Da Vinci’s mechanical automatons and human-powered flight almost work, thanks to magic trees. Long-separated twins, Georg the reluctant groom and Georg the clock thief, roam the clocklike village of Spätbourg, beset by more time and date errors than you can shake an hour hand at. Will Georg get married after all, and repair the town’s central tower clock? Will Georg—the other one—purloin more timepieces, or give up his pilfering ways? Will William Shakespeare lend a hand, and some iambic pentameter poetry, to reset the cogs and gears of this zany comedy? Only time will tell... or maybe not, in this ultimate clockpunk tale of mistaken identity and temporal mix-ups.

About the author

Steven R. Southard offers stories about compelling characters struggling with new technology. His readers voyage to all periods of history, the farthest reaches of the Earth, and into outer space. Stories in his What Man Hath Wrought series portray historical timelines that might have been, featuring the drama and danger of invention and discovery. Explore his page at the Gypsy Shadow Publishing website and his own site at http://stevenrsouthard.com/ to share the wonder and adventure of his intriguing characters and their amazing machines.