Mayer, Andrew P
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1965- ) US Videogame designer and author of the Society of Steam sequence, comprising The Falling Machine (2010), Hearts of Smoke & Steam (2011) and Power under Pressure (2013), set in a Steampunk version of late nineteenth-century New York, where Superheroes vie against Lord Eschaton who, as his name implies, plots to shape the future into a Satanic Mills Dystopia. The Robot known as Automaton which/who is destroyed in the first volume is reconstructed in the second, with the aid of a character whose Inventions may help stave off apocalypse, aided by a new group of rebels known as the Society of Steam. In the meantime, a new Power Source – Fortified Steam – has been discovered; its potential remains alarmingly undeveloped. [JC]
Andrew P Mayer
born New York: 21 December 1965
works
series
Society of Steam
- The Falling Machine (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books/Pyr, 2010) [Society of Steam: pb/Justin Gerard]
- Hearts of Smoke & Steam (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books/Pyr, 2011) [Society of Steam: pb/Justin Gerard]
- Power under Pressure (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books/Pyr, 2013) [Society of Steam: pb/Justin Gerard]
individual titles
- The Jersey Devil (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2015) [pb/]
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