Five Fists of Science
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True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain's connections and Tesla's inventions, they went into business selling world peace. So, what happened? Only now can the tale be told - in which Twain and Tesla collided with Edison and Morgan, an evil science cabal merging the Black Arts and the Industrial Age. Turn of the century New York City sets the stage for a titanic battle over the very fate of mankind.Library JournalIt's good guys Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, and Baroness Bertha von Suttner against bad guys John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, and Andrew Carnegie two unlikely alliances duking it out in an outlandish steampunk romp of science versus the Dark Arts. Our heroes want to end war forever by selling giant remote-controlled automatons to every nation, which would level the playing field and make war a mere contest of machines. When world leaders profess disinterest, Twain pulls out Plan B: scare the bejeezus out of everybody by setting up the automaton to destroy a cleverly faked monster. But the villain team has real evil up their sleeves can science win the day? Suggesting a techno-heavy yet simpler counterpart to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Fists verges into different territory with teams of reenvisioned real characters and a different palette of events, mood, and ambiance. The subdued color art lends an appropriate period feel, and introductory notes give historical details about the real-life characters. By turns gleefully funny and creepy, it's a perfect, fun read for science and history wonks from high school up. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
