Gideon Smith and the Mechanical GirDavid Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana steampunk mash up Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three quarters of the known world including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from