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    Impossible Paradise: A series of short gaslamp steampunk adventures books exploring a magic future world, #1
    Impossible Paradise: A series of short gaslamp steampunk adventures books exploring a magic future world, #1
    Impossible Paradise: A series of short gaslamp steampunk adventures books exploring a magic future world, #1
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    Impossible Paradise: A series of short gaslamp steampunk adventures books exploring a magic future world, #1

    By Leeland Artra

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    Why survive if you're just going to be killed when you get back?

    That isn't a question you ask yourself when you're wrecked at sea.

    What you think about is the five things you need to do to survive.

    1. Don't Sink

    2. Find Fresh Water

    3. Find Food

    4. Figure Out Where You Are

    5. Navigate Home

    We did all that but we're likely dead anyway. - Captain Reinvo

    Pioneer or Heretic? The world's future hangs in the balance.

    A short fantasy steampunk adventure fun for tweens and adults.

    If you like fantasy novels with magic, dragons, and science fiction, then you will love this thrilling short gaslamp steampunk series. The acclaimed serial adventures Endless Horizons Sagas, written in true homage to the science fiction and fantasy classics. These short fantasy novels are great for middle school, tweens, young adults, and adults alike.

    What Others are Saying about the Endless Horizons Sagas

    "Impossible Paradise is his second series and is off to a great start. Strong characters, a nicely textured world, good development of the coming conflict. With Leeland there is always a twist you won't see coming." - R. Greco on April 6, 2016

    "There is plenty of action and a good start on the development of characters that I expect to see more of. It is an excellent lead-in to what I expect will be a great series!" - Catselan on April 11, 2016

    Get Impossible Paradise and see for yourself what everyone is talking about!

    Interview with the Author

    Q - So, what makes the Endless Horizons Sagas so amazing?

    A - These are fun, quick short novels. Each one is a tip of the hat to one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy classics of all time. There will be everything you expect in a steampunk novel airships, super science gizmos, steam-powered gear head machines, plus dragons, magic, and some rather surprising super science fiction elements by the end. By keeping the novels short I've made sure every drop of ink counts and there's never a dull moment.

    Q - Are these books safe for middle school students, aka teens and tweens?

    A - Absolutely, there are no explicit details or bad words. Adult subjects are there but dealt with in a tween safe way. I write all my books to be easy funfilled stories for adults and teens who want to live with wizards and warriors!

    Q - What order should I read the books in?

    A - These books are definitely a series so I recommend the following sequence:

    1. Impossible Paradise

    2. Return of the Vibrius

    3. Center of the World

    4. In Service to the Empresses

    5. Murder in Transit

    6. Rule of Ladies​​​​​​​

    Thank you for reading!

    Endless Horizons Sagas eBook Categories:

    - Science Fiction - Steampunk

    - Fantasy - Gaslamp

    - Fantasy - Action & Adventure

    - Fantasy - Epic

    - Fantasy - Paranormal & Urban

    - Literature & Fiction - Action & Adventure - Sea Adventure

    - Teens & Young Adults - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Steampunk

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeeland Artra Author
    Release dateSep 2, 2019
    ISBN9781393731184
    Impossible Paradise: A series of short gaslamp steampunk adventures books exploring a magic future world, #1
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    Leeland Artra

    Leeland Artra is a science fiction and fantasy junkie turned author. He's also a Navy-trained computer scientist, an experienced table-top gamer, and a "code janitor" working virtually in the big three clouds. So yes, his work is to clean bits of imaginary systems running on simulated machines in pretend computer centers. So making up entirely imaginary worlds and adventures is not that much of a stretch. By day, he helps keep people healthy and secure. By night, he takes readers on fantastic trips of the imagination through the worlds of his books. He lives in the Emerald City (Seattle) with his indulging incredible wife and never-ending inspiration inspiring son. Join Leeland's Star Seeker community for free at https://reamstories.com/lartra where you can chat with other readers, Leeland himself, and get peeks at his works in progress!

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      Impossible Paradise - Leeland Artra

      Impossible Paradise

      IMPOSSIBLE PARADISE

      World Without End, Book 1

      LEELAND ARTRA

      Leeland Artra Author

      Copyright

      Impossible Paradise — Endless Horizons Sagas, Season One World Without End, Book 1

      Copyright © 2016 Leeland Artra. All rights reserved.

      eBook Publication: April 2016

      Editors: Alida Winternheimer, Emerald Barnes

      Cover: Streetlight Graphics

      All rights reserved. This eBook is licensed for the personal enjoyment of the original purchaser only. This eBook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this eBook and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to locales, events, business establishments, or actual persons — living or dead — is entirely coincidental.

      What Others Are Saying

      About Leeland Artra’s Works

      The most entertaining books I have read in years.

      AMAZON REVIEWER

      the story successfully mixes fantasy and science fiction with enough humor to keep the serious parts well focused.

      GRADY HARP, AMAZON VINE VOICE REVIEWER

      The clever author mixes Science Fiction with Fantasy in this adventure and gives hints of more to come.

      DIANE RAPP, GOODREADS REVIEWER

      Leeland Artra [writes] refreshing fantasy books…The world that Leeland has established was fantastic.

      INDIE BOOK BLOG

      Leeland Artra delivers fast-paced action, a complex and twisting plot, well-developed characters, and a vast world whose intriguing history…

      SCOTT M. SANDRIDGE, AUTHOR

      Terra

      Terra

      Find more details at https://WorldAnvil.com/w/terra-lartra

      Prologue

      Squee...click...rrmm...thunk-thunk-thunk

      ‘It’s working now, sir.’

      ‘I just sit here and talk into that thing?’

      ‘Yes, sir. Do you need help?’

      ‘Lady, I know I look as old as dirt. But, I’m not a cobbly sailor yet. I can manage.’

      ‘Of course, sir.’

      Thunk-Thunk.

      ‘So this thing will let people hear what we’re saying right now, in the future?’

      ‘Yes sir, our voices will be preserved for visitors to listen to, like reading a book. As I explained when we first met, the empress desires an accurate record of the events leading up to this age by those who were directly involved. It’s my greatest honor to interview you as part of this initiative. This will be a priceless treasure for future generations. We’re under strict orders to censor nothing. I’m only here to serve you, sir.’

      ‘Hmm.’

      ‘Sir. Are you okay? Do you need a handkerchief?’

      ‘Yes, yes. I’d thought I’d seen it all. But, this thing is...well...amazing. Lady Janali, Empresses bless her, would have loved to see it. I’m not so sure I can do this.’

      ‘I understand, sir. Perhaps it would be better if you ignore that and speak to me. I want to hear your story as you remember it.’

      ‘Well, ma’am, that’s a course I can navigate. Get one of them helpers to bring us some hot java, and we’ll start.’

      You can call me Captain Reinvo. What house I was born to don’t matter ‘cause they didn’t bother to keep me past my mother’s milk. The merchant marine commune records might show where I came from, but I’ve never looked.

      The facts of the matter are simple enough. On Martidi, Tarudyt twenty-fourth, 14343—that is the third day of the week on the twenty-fourth day of the second month of spring by the old calendar—the Vibrius set out from the imperial capital harbor for his suitor voyage. The first ship of his kind. He had a set of twin screw shafts driven with multi-stroke steam engines instead of the ordinary single stroke steam piston engine connected to a pair of paddle wheels. The propellers made everyone overlook the fact he was also the first ship made of iron.

      I accepted command of the Vibrius because he was the most handsome and faithful ship I’d ever set eyes upon. The child of Lady Janali Jedalor’s repressed scientific genius. What mattered to House Jedalor, the house I served most of my adult life, was that the Vibrius was big. The iron construction allowed the Vibrius to be built larger than any ship before. The propeller drive, lack of paddle wheels, and extra size gave the Vibrius almost double the cargo space of his closest rival. And that was why House Jedalor allowed Lady Janali to build him.

      Lady Janali was House

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