In a steampunk world where men are all but extinct, someone is trying to kill the world’s greatest rock and roll band. Agent John Andrews is assigned to protect the Ladybugs on their North American tour and track down their would-be assassin.
There are shorter versions of the Dodge Commercial out there, but this is the complete one. Thanks to Michael C. Hall, it is one of the great ones.
Benjamin Franklin Butler
1818-1893
During the American Civil War, his administration of occupied New Orleans, his policies regarding slaves as contraband, his ineffectual leadership in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, and the fiasco of Fort Fisher rank him as one of the most controversial political generals of the war. He was widely reviled for years after the war by Southern whites, who gave him the nickname “Beast Butler.”
Butler was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1867 to 1875 and again in 1877 to 1879. Despite his pre-war allegiance as a Democrat, in Congress he was conspicuous as a Radical Republican in Reconstruction legislation, and wrote the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (Ku Klux Klan Act). Along with Republican Senator Charles Sumner, he proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a seminal and far-reaching law banning racial discrimination in public accommodations. The law was declared unconstitutional, and racial minorities in the United States would have to wait nearly a century before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would revive, and expand, the provisions of the law Butler backed.
While visiting England in the fall of 1888, a young Theodore Roosevelt assists Scotland Yard in the effort to capture Jack the Ripper. As the streets of Whitechapel become bloodier with each murder, Teddy’s American brand of investigative consultancy shines light into the darkness of the world’s most famous unsolved mystery.
Red Chapel is short story that was originally published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. I downloaded it in ebook form from Fictionwise. At $1.29 it was appropriately priced. I enjoyed the story, of course as I mentioned before I love any alternate history with TR. TR meets Jack the Ripper– a must read. The story was pretty simple– no surprises, you could say even a bit on the predictable side. That being said, the plot worked and there were no holes in it– something that is more difficult to pull-off in alternate history books than perhaps any other genre. It was well-written and TR was excellently represented. I would recommend this story to anyone interested in TR or AH.
The reptilian tyrant strode over to its victim and administered a killing bite.
City of Amathar 
