But at the end of the day, it doesn’t lean too heavy on the Steampunk. There are airships and a knight named Cid, and a military philosophy named Jasyn Warhpeg (subtle) … so Jon occasionally got cute at times. There is a red shirt engineer who is very cautious about his estimates (no, he doesn’t come with a Scottish accent). There are fun bits of business all over the place. She gets an airship, a crew, and a SpecOps command team. Granted, our heroine gets a much cooler inheritance from her MIA dad. Nah, that doesn’t sound familiar at all, does it? Heh. So, a farm girl is taken from her home in order to fight an evil empire that leveled her village, leaving nothing for her to go back to ….Īnd our heroine’s father leaves a memoir behind that states he prefers to sword, as it is “a more elegant weapon” …. With the enemy army advancing, her newfound ship’s crew may be the only ones who can save the kingdom.įor Steam and Country is the first book in the Adventures of Baron Von Monocle series by top-10 Amazon best selling space opera author, Jon Del Arroz. Zaira soon finds herself trapped in the midst of a war between her home country of Rislandia and the cruel Wyranth Empire, whose soldiers are acting peculiarly-almost inhuman. But when a messenger brought news that her father was dead and that she was the heir to his airship, her world turned upside down. She quickly learned to rely on only herself. And Zaira’s day is just getting started…Ībandoned at an early age, Zaira von Monocle found life as the daughter of a great adventurer to be filled with hard work and difficulty. Destructive earthquakes ravage the countryside.

Make Science Fiction Fun Again (coll 2018) assembles short fiction not dissimilar to Del Arroz's longer work.Her father’s been pronounced dead. The Young Adult Adventures of Baron Von Monocle sequence, beginning with For Steam and Country ( 2017), conveys its protagonist – who has lost her father and must establish her own sense of warrior-like worth – through various Steampunk adventures in the land of Rislandia, which must be saved armoured Airships are much in evidence. His first novel, Star Realms: Rescue Run ( 2016) is an adventure-oriented Space Opera tale with Military SF elements featuring a suddenly freelance female protagonist in need of a contract a series may be intended. (? - ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with 'Monsieur Mingle and Kris Kringle' in Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Anthology (anth 2015) edited by Jennifer Brozek.

For Steam And Country by Jon Del Arroz