The subtitle of Andrew Mayer’s book The Falling Machine is: The Society of Steam book 1, so there is every reason to believe that this is the prelude to an ongoing series. Where I had compared Hard Magic (my review) to the X-Men, The Falling Machine tries to be more like the Justice League and it doesn’t succeed. The characters are bland and the plot is silly. It’s yet another book that I gave 100 pages to and then gave up. It’s a poorly conceived story and I have no plans to read additional books. So, let’s see what happened.