By
S. Nano (Guest Blogger)
Mistress
Of The Air is a comic, steampunk, erotic Adventure (with a capital 'A').
Steampunk
is a fun genre to write in. It’s a mash up of history and science
fiction, combining a Victorian past with new technologies. The world
building in Steampunk can be extremely sophisticated and deadly
serious or it can be tongue in cheek, containing bizarre characters
and derring-do adventures. Mistress Of The Air definitely takes the
comic route, offering a kinky and funny twist on the Steampunk genre.
It features an over-the-top Edwardian dominatrix, Lady Sally
Rudston-Chichester, along with her airship, brass automatons and an
array of dastardly electric or steam-powered sex-toys. She takes her
airship, ‘The Corseted Domme’, on travels across the Empires of
Europe, having many adventures on the way and dropping in on her
aristocratic friends and relatives for tea.
Lady
Sally’s Steampunk world is rooted in a Victorian/Edwardian past
with added technological innovations and devices. Some features of
the book were even inspired by specific events or people. My former
career managing the local archive office means I’ve been ideally
placed to get ideas from the documents and photographs I came into
contact with.
In
the opening chapter of Mistress Of The Air, Lady Sally introduces
herself to Captain Wyndham at a ball in honour of the aviators at a
flying meeting and picks him out as her airship pilot for her
adventures. The scene is set at a flying meeting with races and time
trials for biplanes and airships, modelled on an actual event – the
Doncaster flying meeting.
This
event was held between 15th and 23rd October
1909 at Doncaster Racecourse and was the first aviation meeting in
the United Kingdom and, therefore, a significant event in British
aeronautical history. It attracted international flyers including the
famous flying showman, Samuel F Cody from America, who was, I
believe, the brother of the Cody of the Wild West Shows. There were
competitions for the new-fangled biplanes held in various classes
such as speed, longest time in the air, distance, rising speed and
longest time in the air.
I
even borrow some of my character’s names from the pioneer aviators
at the meeting, notably Captain Charles Wyndham, recruited as Lady
Sally’s airship pilot, and his French rivals Monsieurs Delagrange,
Le Bon and Saunier.
So,
this is an interesting example of how an historical event can get
mashed up with fictional characters and mixed with new technological
innovations to create a Steampunk world.
Be
warned. There will be wild escapades, kinky BDSM, awesome airships,
dastardly devices, explosions and nice cups of tea. I hope you’ll
come along and join Lady Sally for the ride!
Blurb
Lady
Sally Rudston-Chichester owns a brass mine in Zanzibar, a Lapsang
Souchong tea plantation in China, a rubber tree farm in Malaysia,
trunk loads of corsetry, and the country’s largest collection of
antique whips and floggers.
Larger
than life, and itching to find new and inventive ways to punish her
submissive gentlemen, the Edwardian dominatrix has a vision.
Embracing the spirit of the new age of aviation, she embarks on a
series of adventures on her own airship, The Corseted Domme,
with her transvestite maid, Victoria, her airship pilot, Captain
Wyndham, and her automaton sex toy, Borghild.
A
select group of submissive gentlemen, consisting of a duke, bishop,
lawyer and banker, is invited to join Lady Sally so she can try out
her new dastardly devices and sex toys on them. She whips, spanks and
punishes her way across the Empires of Europe, dropping off to visit
her aristocratic relatives and friends for afternoon tea.
But
Lady Sally’s journey is not uneventful. War is threatening to break
out and the Ministry of Aviation want to commandeer her airship for
the war effort. And when The Corseted Domme has a crash
landing, Lady Sally realises there is a stowaway on board intent on
sabotaging her airship.
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“
Jolly bad luck
on the final race, Wyndham. It was a daring move and deserving of
greater reward.”
The
captain’s face lit up at the compliment. He looked up but couldn’t
help but be distracted by the sight of Lady’s Sally’s breasts.
Her dress was cut daringly low, and the magnificent orbs of white
flesh were pushed up enticingly by her corset and the cut of her
gown.
And
then she started talking. If Wyndham was embarrassed about what to
say to her, he didn’t need to worry. She commanded the conversation
and Wyndham listened, bewitched and mesmerised at the vision she laid
before him. There was no escape for him. He was pinned into the
corner by Lady Sally’s heaving breasts with no escape. He tried to
concentrate on what she was saying, conscious of the treatment meted
out on Monsieur Le Blon, all the time urging himself to focus on her
face not her chest, but it was an enormous effort of will when they
were practically thrust under his nose.
She
spoke of her airship. She described how vast it was going to be, how
fast, how powerful, and how high it would fly. She described how
sumptuously it would be fitted out. She extolled the virtues of her
ocean liner of the air. Wyndham nodded enthusiastically as her
breasts swelled and subsided with every excited explication of her
venture. She enthused about her designers and engineers who were
working on it, of the technical challenges they faced and how they
had overcome them. Wyndham stood trapped in the corner of the
ballroom like a frightened rabbit in headlights all the time trying
to distract himself from the sight of Lady Sally’s enormous
décolletage as it heaved up and down in front of his eyes.
Then
she proceeded to explain how, as he must certainly know, she was the
foremost dominatrix of her age and described with great enthusiasm
the dungeon that would be fitted out on the airship, and how excited
she was about the adventures she would have, and the whippings,
spankings and punishments she would administer to the carefully
selected group of submissive gentlemen who would be accompanying her
on the airship’s maiden voyage.
“It’s
my ambition, Captain Wyndham, to be the Mistress of the Air,
yes…a veritable Mistress of the Air, and I envisage you
playing a vital role in fulfilling my vision.”
Wyndham’s
ears pricked up at those words but he only had the slightest moment
to interject with a nervous, “oh really,” before the enormous
breasts backed him even further into the corner. Lady Sally continued
by praising his aviation skills and the daring manoeuvres she’d
witnessed at the flying meeting. Wyndham flushed with pride. She went
on, much to the captain’s delight, to say how those French aviators
were all show and no guts, and she needed somebody who would take
risks for her, to serve her loyally and selflessly. Finally, she
wound up her diatribe and came directly to the point.
“Now
Captain. I pride myself on my instincts and judgement of character.
You see, the matter is I need an airship pilot. I need someone who
can share my enthusiasm for air flight and is a skilled aviator. I
believe you are my man Wyndham.”
Lady
Sally continued extolling the excitement of the new age, how she was
going to take her airship on a grand tour across Europe and how he,
Wyndham, would be her pilot.
Finally,
she concluded, “So that’s all settled then, Captain Wyndham. I
can assure you the financial rewards will be considerable. It’s
good to have you on board. I’m sure we will share many adventures
together. You can report to my airship station at Howden in
Yorkshire. My maid, Victoria, will give you all the details.”
With
one dismissive wave of a lace-gloved hand she breezed off, leaving
the hapless Wyndham gaping in astonishment. He had been swept away by
her charisma. He had barely uttered a word. At no point had he agreed
to the venture yet he knew in his gut he would accept the challenge.
He felt strangely compelled to help Lady Sally fulfil her vision of
travel in the largest and fastest dirigible ever to be built.
About
the author
S.
Nano is an author of erotic stories with dark and exotic content in
fantasy, paranormal or historical settings, often drawing on the
themes of female supremacy, BDSM and fetish but with a seam of quirky
humour running through them as well.
His
first full-length erotic novel, Adventures
in Fetishland, a BDSM/fetish re-invention
of Alice in Wonderland, was published by Xcite Books. His short
stories and novellas have been published by Xcite Books, House of
Erotica, Forbidden Fiction, Coming Together and Greenwoman
Publishing.
