Gods Inside the Stars - Space: 1969

The first post-steampunk novel! And so it came to pass that the Baltimore Gun Club's successful 1864 launch of a manned projectile into outer space did initiate a worldwide "e;space race"e;, bolstered by the industrial and technological advances developed over the course of three regrettable "e;great"e; wars, so that by the year of our Lord 1960 Earth men maintained a bustling way station upon our...