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Robur the Conqueror

Name: Robur the Conqueror
Author: Jules Verne

Jules Verne1886

Steampunk

Engines and machines
Yesterday's tomorrow

Verne's heavier-than-air flying ship, the Albatross, and its brooding engineer-captain. Proto-steampunk's great argument about who gets to own the sky.

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