Published: Feb. 02, 2010
Words: 18865 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

1875: The dawn of a new age of technology, based on the magical ore hermetauxite from the hard-scrabble mining town of Scryer's Gulch. But someone is poisoning it--twisting it for an evil purpose. Treasury Agent Annabelle Duniway and her demon servant Misi have come to the Gulch undercover. Their assignment: Find out who's corrupting the ore that increasingly runs the world, and why.

Extended description

1875: The dawn of a magical new age of technology...no seriously, the technology's based on magic.

Wide-open, hard-scrabble mining town Scryer's Gulch is the greatest known deposit of hermetauxite, the ore that runs everything from clocks to trains to the new ethergraph system. But an unscrupulous spellcoder is poisoning the ore--twisting it for an unknown but undoubtedly evil purpose.

Beautiful magic wielder and secret Treasury Agent Annabelle Duniway and her captive demon servant Misi have come to the Gulch undercover--she as the new schoolteacher, he as her mean black cat. Their assignment: Find out who's corrupting the ore that increasingly runs the world, and why.

The first ten episodes of this fantasy western serial that's one part "Deadwood," one part "Wild, Wild West," one part "Dark Shadows" and altogether silly.

Tags

soap opera, humor, fantasy, serial fiction, steampunk, western, steampunk fantasy, fantasy western

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Videos

Scryer's Gulch Series Trailer
A trailer for the whole series.

Reviews

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Review by: vera pieterse on Feb. 10, 2011 :
I liked it, reading in english is not my native language.
Most books are for childeren but this is a good one for adult reading if your not a good native english reader
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Review by: Keryl Raist on Jan. 10, 2011 :
Take all the great trope characters out of a classic old western. Now put them into a magic-filled steampunkish world. You know it's going to be good.

What, you want more than that to entice you into reading this?

How about this then: The writing is well crafted and well edited. Bits and pieces of the story could maybe use a bit of polishing, but there are no major issues.

The characters are arresting. You want to know more about them and what is going on.

And the premise, someone is corrupting the source of the magic that runs the world, is one I've seen before, but never done like this. Magic and technology blend together effortlessly in this world, and give the reader something new to sink his/her teeth into.
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Review by: Kris Moon on Nov. 16, 2010 :
Creative ideas, interesting world, and well-edited. Ultimately, the over-the-top writing style distracted me from the story and the number of characters thrown at us right off the bat made it hard to get into things. I also wasn't a fan of the telly first-person introductions at the beginning of each chapter (episode).

It's a free read though, so you can't complain too much. Maybe others will be more into the style.
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Review by: tinker on Feb. 08, 2010 : (no rating)
There is something wrong with the epub version of this, it is unreadable.
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