Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Sci-Fi
  3. Contemporary science fiction

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
5.0(2)

Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl [Dramatized Adaptation]

Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world—including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775.

London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told in Gideon's favorite “penny dreadful.” When Gideon's father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances Gideon is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Deciding only Captain Lucian Trigger himself can aid him, Gideon sets off for London. On the way he rescues the mysterious mechanical girl Maria from a tumbledown house of shadows and iniquities. Together they make for London, where Gideon finally meets Captain Trigger.

But Trigger is little more than an aging fraud, providing cover for the covert activities of his lover, Dr. John Reed, a privateer and sometime agent of the British Crown. Looking for heroes but finding only frauds and crooks, it falls to Gideon to step up to the plate and attempt to save the day...but can a humble fisherman really become the true Hero of the Empire?

David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana/steampunk mash-up!


Author:

  • David Barnett

Narrators:

  • A Full Cast Cast
  • Terence Aselford
  • Bradley Smith
  • Dani Stoller
  • Eva Wilhelm
  • Scott McCormick
  • Kimberly Gilbert
  • Michael Glenn
  • Andy Brownstein
  • Richard Rohan
  • Michael John Casey
  • James Konicek
  • Thomas Penny
  • Dylan Lynch
  • Alyssa Wilmoth
  • Evan Casey
  • Matthew Schleigh
  • Zoe Badovinac
  • Colleen Delany
  • Ken Jackson
  • Nanette Savard
  • Ren Kasey
  • Todd Scofield
  • Chris Scheeren
  • David Coyne
  • Nick DePinto
  • David Harris
  • Eric Messner
  • Yasmin Tuazon
  • Christopher Graybill
  • Thomas Keegan
  • Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey
  • James Lewis
  • Margie Tompros
  • Nathanial Perry
  • Steven Carpenter

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 8 h 42 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Sci-Fi
  • Contemporary science fiction

More by David Barnett

Skip the list
  1. Scuttler's Cove

    David Barnett

    audiobook
  2. Withered Hill

    David Barnett

    audiobook
  3. Alien - Alien: Colony War

    David Barnett

    book
  4. Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper [Dramatized Adaptation]

    David Barnett

    audiobook
  5. Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon [Dramatized Adaptation]

    David Barnett

    audiobook
  6. Work Sets You Free [Dramatized Adaptation]

    David Barnett

    audiobook

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms · Imprint ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5