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Gears & God: What Powered Twain’s Speculative Fiction?

Gears & God: What Powered Twain’s Speculative Fiction?

by Nathaniel Williams | Sep 27, 2018 | The Study

Originally posted by: Nathaniel Williams on September 27, 2018 What do we learn when we read Mark Twain alongside long-forgotten novels about giant robots and electric tanks? That was my initial question when I started the project that became my book, Gears and God:...

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