Gideon Smith and the Brass DragonDavid Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana steampunk mash up Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire, a teeming metropolis where steam power is king and airships ply the skies, and where Queen Victoria presides over three quarters of the known world including the east coast of America, following the failed revolution