Looking for opinions on a logo

[southseattle_65]

So I wanted to get some opinions on a few logotypes I put together for my novel. Some have only minor differences (E & F are mainly changes in the "G" and lower-case letter height). I'll do some texture and embossing techniques later, but I wanted to get some feedback to narrow down the list

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[southseattle_65]

The phrase "gilding steam" is my idiom for "flights of fancy", an overactive imagination, or even plain ol' dawdling. In this instance, it has to do with the steamtech that Dad (someone who would have been best buds with CCaractacus Potts) left notes about. Most people involved believe his notebook was just doodles and fanciful imaginings - Gilded Steam, as it were.

The brothers have to search for Dad's secret lab - one he alluded to this notebook. Of course, it won't be much of a spoiler to say that what they're looking for isn't in the first place they come to. The search itself is seen as an attempt to gild steam.

The story is meant to be action with humor; not exactly Monty Python or anything, but not Lord of the Rings, either. If I had to pin it down, I'd say the tone is more Firefly than Bab 5. There's an airship pirate attack, a crazed automaton, mad scientists, lost civilizations, multiple modes of travel, and a fair amount of nature/nurture social commentary (the brothers are half-brothers; one is illegitimate and the other is multi-racial from one of those lost civs).

So, the first two logos were attempts to keep some of the fanciful nature of the phrase but ground them in a little bit more of a time period appropriate look. C & D just headed straight over to steamtech land. E &F were meant to have a time period feel, with only small flourishes of weirdness. The "G" in F is the unaltered version, but it looked too much like a C to me. I turned it upside down and made some changes to the various elements. I also lowered the x-height of the lower case letters. In both cases, I added the flourish from the m to the d's.