Jay Lake

Mainspring is the third novel from writer Jay Lake. It is a clockpunk science fiction/fantasy novel, of the subgenre steampunk. This novel is followed by the 2008 sequel Escapement and the 2010 sequel Pinion.

In ROCKET SCIENCE, Jay Lake's first novel, Vernon Dunham's friend Floyd Bellamy has returned to Augusta, Kansas after serving in World War II, but he hasn't come back empty-handed: he's stolen a super-secret aircraft right from under the Germans. Vernon doesn't think it's your ordinary run-of-the-mill aircraft. For …