"Tales From Beyond Tomorrow" is a series of Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Atompunk, and Cyberpunk novelettes and short stories by John Paul Catton, published by Excalibur Books. The series currently has two volumes, with a third planned for 2020.From a traumatized Spiritualist medium trying to redeem himself in a bizarre Steampunk London, to sinister angels that haunt the trenches of World War I ... from a team of super-powered vigilantes fighting to keep order in a seventies New York City gone mad, to a TV evangelist preaching to an environmentally devastated Europe ... these stories will propel you from one reality to another, like a giant cosmic pinball machine!
Tales From Beyond Tomorrow contains examples of:
- Alternate History: A compilation of times and places.
- Atompunk: "Jimmy Diamond and the Girl from Venus".
- Big Applesauce: The "true" reason for the Big Blackout of July 13th 1977 - in the novelette "Nightfall In Utopia".
- Cyberpunk: "Skin Condition".
- Dieselpunk: "Dulce et Decorum est", "The Elements of War".
- EldritchAbominations: Stalking the trenches of World War One for reasons beyond human comprehension ...
- Future Slang: The characters of "Skin Condition" talk in a bizarre mix of Yuppie-speak and Cockney rhyming slang.
- London Blitz: The setting for "The Elements of War"
- Spooky Séance: How the Steampunk Spiritualist Mr. Gregory communicates with his "informants".
- Steampunk: "The Invention of God".
- Swinging London: the setting for "Jimmy Diamond."
