Monday Book Pick: The Monster in the Mist

June 4, 2012 by
Filed under: Monday Book Pick, Science Fiction 

The Monster in the Mist (A Chronological Man Adventure) by Andrew Mayne

Executive Summary: Steampunk version of Doctor Who, with a bit of other pulp references tossed in. I give it a thumbs up for being a fun read and definately worth the $0.99 for the ebook download. It’s the first in a series, with the second book also out in the wild. The hero is clearly based on the 11th Doctor, who only travels forward in time. He spends long periods in storage beneath a building he owns in Boston, coming out only when the clockwork computer that monitors events decides that there is something worth cracking him out of cold storage. This time, it is a rash of disapperances in the fog that brings him out in 1890. He even has a companion. A young woman who maintains the office and keeps up on current events. The hero Smith, just Smith, also has a warehouse of gadgets that would make Doc Savage proud, but he won’t show up for a few more decades.

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    […] in the series. The first was my pick back in early June. In this book, our hero and heroine pick up a number of months later. They travel to New York City […]

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