The real Thomas Alva Edison was born a bit up the road from my Cincinnati home in in Milan, Ohio, in 1847. His accomplishments are well-known enough that I needn’t enumerate them here.
But when Lou Anders of Pyr asked me to write a “Weird Western” for him, with a strong dose of steampunk, I knew that along with gunslingers and the like, I had to make use of Edison, given the dates of his major breakthroughs.
The Buntline Special, which comes out in December (you can read an excerpt here) had the government move Edison to Tombstone, Arizona for plot purposes, so I asked myself: what would Tombstone look like after he’d been there for awhile?
