A review by lsneal
The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter by Rod Duncan

3.0

I found this one a bit slow to start, but it eventually sucked me in. I particularly liked the explanation as to why this society remained stuck in a particular state of technological and fashion development - in this world, the overarching power is an international patent office (the "gas-lit empire" of the series title) that strictly polices inventions to fulfill the Luddite dream of protecting the working man from developments that will erase the need for manual labor.