I regularly get asked by fans of the
Pax Britannia steampunk series when I will write a new Ulysses Quicksilver story. Well, if that applies to you, you will be pleased to know that I have a new one coming out this summer from
Newcon Press, as part of the
Steampunk International anthology, which combines steampunk stories from three different countries released by three different publishers in three different languages.
My contribution is entitled
Reckless Engineering, and is the first story to move the
Pax Britannia timeline forward properly since 2012's
Time's Arrow.
Following a break-in at the top secret Whitehall facility known as 'Think Tank', agent of the crown Ulysses Quicksilver and his trusty manservant Nimrod set off in pursuit of the perpetrator. It is a chase that will take them from the railway sheds of London to the dockyards of Bristol, and an encounter with a long-dead engineering genius.
Whether you've been following the adventures of Ulysses Quicksilver since the publication of
Unnatural History in 2007 or not, I thought it might be helpful if I published the correct reading order for the series to date. So remember, this the chronological order in which the stories take place, not the order in which they were written.
1)
Conqueror Worm - November 1797 - published in
Evolution Expects
2)
Unnatural History - April-June 1997 - first published in 2007
3)
Leviathan Rising - July-August 1997 - first published in 2008
4)
Fruiting Bodies* - September 1997 - published in
El Sombra (2007)
5)
Vanishing Point* - October 1997 - published in
Leviathan Rising
6)
Human Nature - November 1997 - first published in 2008
7)
Christmas Past - December 1997 - published in
Human Nature
8)
Evolution Expects - January-February 1998 - first published in 2009
9)
Blood Royal - March-April 1998 - first published in 2010
10)
White Rabbit* - May 1998 - first published in 2007
11)
Proteus Unbound - May 1998 - published in
Dark Side
12)
Worthless Remains - June 1998 - published in
Clockwork Cairo (2017)
13)
Dark Side - June 1998 - first published in 2010
14)
Anno Frankenstein - September 1943 - first published in 2011
15)
Time's Arrow - May 1998 (again) - first published in 2012
16)
Tempus Fugit - June 1998 (again) - published in
Abaddon X (2015)
17)
Reckless Engineering - July 1998 - published in
Steampunk International (July 2018)
Stories marked with an asterisk * are also available as part of
The Ulysses Quicksilver Short Story Collection eBook. The first three Ulysses Quicksilver novels, and associated short stories and novellas, have been collected together as
The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus Vol.1, while the fourth, fifth and sixth (and associated short stories and novellas) are now available as
The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus Vol.2.
You can even pick up the eBook of Ulysses Quicksilver's first adventure
Unnatural History for free
here! Just remember, "Evolution Expects!"
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
I regularly get asked by fans of the Pax Britannia steampunk series when I will write a new Ulysses Quicksilver story. Well, if that applies to you, you will be pleased to know that I have a new one coming out this summer from Newcon Press, as part of the Steampunk International anthology, which combines steampunk stories from three different countries released by three different publishers in three different languages.
