Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate by David Erik Nelson (Clockie American Steampunk Book 1)
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Overview: In this celebrated alternate history, a lonely veterinarian recounts a mischievous Confederate veteran’s attempts to teach clockwork soldiers to make nice with their neighbors.
The long Civil War is finally over, thanks to the brutal battlefield efficiency of the clockwork soldiers of Sherman’s Terrible Mechanical Corps. Many decommissioned "clockies" have fled West to live out their retirement peacefully. A small enclave settles near Lost Creek, Utah, and is accepted as a tolerable nuisance by their Mormon neighbors—until Dickie Tucker, a crippled Confederate veteran, takes it upon himself to teach these machines the art and craft of being, or at least seeming, human.
Lois Tilton wrote in the Internet Review of Science Fiction that this novella is "dark comedy, wonderfully absurd, riotously bawdy, populated by a full set of fantastically flawed characters, such as Two-Ton Sadie the madam, who helps [Dickie] demonstrate the art of copulation, and ‘Rabbi’ Emet Kohen, who ministers to a congregation of Hebrew Zunis. Yet it is also a poignant tale of wanting to belong, wanting to be counted as a human among humans."
Genre: Science Fiction > Steampunk
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