The Great War 1914The Great War 1914

The steampunk/biopunk Leviathan Trilogy reimagines World War I in a technologically advanced alternate world. Darwinists, corresponding to the Allies, use biotechnology to fabricate creatures like the whale-based airship Leviathan. The Central Powers equivalent, Clankers, use steam-powered machines to wage war. The series follows Deryn, a girl disguised as a boy to serve in the British Air Service, and Aleksander, son of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, on their travels aboard the Leviathan. This map illustrates countries’ attitudes in the style of caricature maps. In Thompson’s map, attention centers on Austria-Hungary attacking Serbia in retaliation for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo.