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Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate Clockie American Steampunk Book 1 eBook David Erik Nelson Chad Sell

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Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate Clockie American Steampunk Book 1 eBook David Erik Nelson Chad Sell

This is an easy read, a story featuring endearing humans and interesting mechanical entities. The story is told in the first person by a veterinarian (or maybe he is really a medical doctor) who goes to the Utah Territory after the War Between the States. Some of General Sherman's mechanized soldiers (Clockies) have gone there, too, and they have turned their swords into more useful tools. After the ne'er-do-well Tucker and the dancehall proprietress show the Clockies how humans can copulate, the Clockies show up around town in various sexual positions. The transformation of nearly everybody starts at that point.

The author has created a wonderful story. I was sorry it had to end.


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Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate Clockie American Steampunk Book 1 eBook David Erik Nelson Chad Sell Reviews

Bawdy science fiction with soul about ostensibly soulless wind up machines who are taught one lesson but learn another. An old fashioned science fiction thought experiment that leaves the reader with lingering philosophical twinges. A single that hits the mark.
I read this novella when it appeared in Paradox a few years back and again just recently. Both times it has been a hilarious and moving and filthy read. Highly recommended for people who like intelligent fiction that isn't afraid to get dirty and weird at times.
I had a lot of fun reading this novella. I don't typically read steampunk, but a friend recommended this and it made me want to pick up more of this guy's stuff. The characters and the storytelling are lively. The voice of the story is catchy and I felt that character rolling around in my head even away from the story. I love that androids are living in the Old South; it's as unlikely as it is compelling. It got caught in my gears so to speak. Total deal. A great read.
For a short work, this book packs in many twists. Excellent writing with lively, baudy humor and skull-jarring human drama wound up tighter than a watch-spring. This is Sci-fi in the vein of Bradbury, where human complexities are bent into new geometries revealing the characters to be more like us time-bound humans than we'd like to admit. A very good and satisfying read.
The young man remembered an old bottle factory by the river front, brought a backpack full of books, plenty of weed and the company of an unwholesome woman. He righted the giant glass beaker in the darkest corner, tossed in plenty of Mark Twain, shuffled with a good measure of Mary Shelley. She added a few pages each of EB White's Charlotte's Web and John Dennis Fitzgerald's The Great Brain, because, why not? It made them both laugh. He pumped the oxygen from the elixir, but at the last second, she exhaled a healthy dose of cannabis smoke into the big womb-bulb, just before he sealed it shut. He threw the switch and grabbed his companion's wrist. They commenced sexual acts of a depraved and felonious nature before the blue-white and noisy approval of the electric arc. At dawn, they walked the train tracks spent-melancholy, having left all conversation and intercourse back at the factory, where the power was still on...

And that's the true birth story of Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate. It was discovered generations later -- interleaved among shards of glass, oxidized wiring and dessicated latex. It is nothing less than a modern American masterpiece, but this fellow, David Erik Nelson, is just taking credit.
While I have barely a passing familiarity with steampunk literature, Tucker reminded of one of those exceptional sci-fi short stories I would read in middle school that really stuck with me, and I'll think of one every now and then when a situation comes up, but can't I really explain to anyone what I'm thinking of because it's just too complicated to explain how evocative and revelatory and appropriate the story's relevance to the situation at hand is. It was such an absolute joy to read. There are so many little gems of ideas, turns of phrase, well-tuned descriptions of side characters that fleshed out a rich world full of desire and longing and depth. The illustrations are haunting and lyrical. In 82 pages Nelson develops a complete alternate reality, I wish we could have spent more time in it. The story and prose are smarter and bawdier and more elegiac than I'd ever expected. I wish this could be the basis for a lost fourth season of HBO's Deadwood.
The clockwork chinamen, when they are first uncrated and assembled, have a period most commonly referred to as phlegmatic. It is the belief of most learned men that the complexity of their clockwork mechanism, and the intense magnetic field sometimes induced by the folded steel coild spring at their heart, drags against the elemental ether, and untl their surrounding atmosphere adjusts to the spinning and clacking of their millions of minute wheels and cogs and gears, they are left to twist and shudder listlessly. The phlegmatic period can last for half of one hour, and push on to three or four days, and new owners are advised to leave them in a closed, locked and darkened cupboard so that they do themselves and others no harm. Also, obviously, the uninitiated are often disturbed by the way their limbs dangle and their head shudders. Sensitive young ladies have, on occasion, tried to "comfort" the machines, given that the phlegmatic state can, to the undisciplined and emotional eye of the fairer sex, appear to be a kind of sadness. It is advised that this be prevented from happening because, though the ministrations of a comely lady have, incidentally, appeared to rouse the machine and bring it to work more quickly, the machine takes special care to follow the lady with its ocular mechanism, and this tracking of the subject is disconcerting at the least, and can cause unwanted bonding to occur between the chinamen and the lady in question.
This is an easy read, a story featuring endearing humans and interesting mechanical entities. The story is told in the first person by a veterinarian (or maybe he is really a medical doctor) who goes to the Utah Territory after the War Between the States. Some of General Sherman's mechanized soldiers (Clockies) have gone there, too, and they have turned their swords into more useful tools. After the ne'er-do-well Tucker and the dancehall proprietress show the Clockies how humans can copulate, the Clockies show up around town in various sexual positions. The transformation of nearly everybody starts at that point.

The author has created a wonderful story. I was sorry it had to end.