Steampunk Palin defies classification into any literary genre, unless there's a genre I'm unaware of simply called "WTF?!?"... The story starts in the near future, in the immediate aftermath of a war that has destroyed all the Earth's oil. A new power source is needed, and Sarah Palin steps forward to suggest steam power as a replacement. A conglomerate consisting of big oil and nuclear power interests makes a counterproposal by blowing her up with a bomb at the meeting where she suggests this.

Let me step back for a second and point out that in order to make steam power you boil water and turn it into steam to power your generators, and that nuclear power, oil and natural gas are some of the most common heat sources used to do that. Anyway, back to crazyland. Six months later Sarah Palin wakes up to find that she now has body more than half made of robot parts. Powered by steam.