June 1897. Queen Victoria just claimed the Moon for the British Empire. Space Captain Gordon Periwinkle was the first man to set foot on it. He has absolutely no idea how he's getting home.

This is not a story about heroism. It's a story about a Gentleman Adventurer (and amateur taxidermist) who finds himself stranded on the Moon, hunted by government assassins, pursued by nefarious foreign agents, shadowed by Jack the Ripper, and undermined at every turn by his own backstabbing family.

With only his trusty sherpa Tiny and Professor Hamble Blaise, The Inventor Royal, Periwinkle cobbles together the kind of plan that really shouldn't work — and somehow does.

Paul Eccentric is the pen name of a writer who takes Victorian absurdity very seriously indeed. The Giant Step is his debut: gaslit streets, steam-powered ingenuity, a Moon base that shouldn't exist, and a hero whose greatest achievement might simply be surviving his own relatives.

Adventure that doesn't take itself too seriously — but takes the fun very seriously indeed.

Already got Volume One? The saga runs to six volumes. Collect them all direct and save.

June 1897. Queen Victoria just claimed the Moon for the British Empire. Space Captain Gordon Periwinkle was the first man to set foot on it. He has absolutely no idea how he's getting home.

This is not a story about heroism. It's a story about a Gentleman Adventurer (and amateur taxidermist) who finds himself stranded on the Moon, hunted by government assassins, pursued by nefarious foreign agents, shadowed by Jack the Ripper, and undermined at every turn by his own backstabbing family.

With only his trusty sherpa Tiny and Professor Hamble Blaise, The Inventor Royal, Periwinkle cobbles together the kind of plan that really shouldn't work — and somehow does.

Paul Eccentric is the pen name of a writer who takes Victorian absurdity very seriously indeed. The Giant Step is his debut: gaslit streets, steam-powered ingenuity, a Moon base that shouldn't exist, and a hero whose greatest achievement might simply be surviving his own relatives.

Adventure that doesn't take itself too seriously — but takes the fun very seriously indeed.

Already got Volume One? The saga runs to six volumes. Collect them all direct and save.