Maximillian Skilton, Wiremu Marino, Peng Long Wang, Harriet Leigh, Dickie Pearse... their names are famous now. But once these were just five amongst the many names of students enrolled for their first year at Victoria University. Well, Harriet Leigh was always famous. The others... they had to bleed for it. And Dickie, he never wanted it.-If the University students of The Dominion, a new world, built upon an ancient land, at the very edges of The Empire, can fight and love, endure betrayal and heart break, overcome cultural imperatives, master new technologies and outsmart one another, and the powerful forces arrayed against them they might just manage to survive... and graduate! -The Dominion: Steampunk is the first novel in the Dominion Saga: a speculative, alternative history, high-stakes adventure, romance, drama, with engaging characters, fighting robots, ball room dances, sword fights, steam train races, lost treasure and ancient mysteries.-'Steampunk' is the moniker given to narrative in which Victorian Science Fiction and Fantasy are realised. Colonial New Zealand had a Victorian Fantasy, it believed that; Collingwood would be the Capital of the Dominion, the gold in the Aorere would not run out, the Treaty of Waitangi would be Honoured, Iron Rails would unite the land, and that one day the Tsar's Russians would invade.

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to 'The Dominion'.---