Chris Roberson, World Fantasy Award Finalist and Sideways Award Winner About the Author GEORGE MANN heads the editorial and production teams of two divisions of the UK-based Games Workshop: Solaris Books, a SF/Fantasy publisher, and Black Library, a publisher of game-related fiction. SFRevu Excellent world building captures the Sherlock Holmes feel never a boring passage.A hugely entertaining book. Mann writes great chase scenes! marks George Mann as a writer of enormous promise. The Guardian Mann is at the forefront of the new generation of UK movers and shakers.Tremendous fun.
Newbury and Hobbes Investigation #1 The Affinity Bridge #2 The Osiris Ritual #3 The Immortality Engine #4 The Executioners Heart #5 The Revenant Express Review Quotes Steampunk is making a comeback, and with this novel Mann is leading the charge.An engaging melodrama that rattles along at a breakneck pace. This time Newbury and Hobbes are called to investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot, while attempting to solve a string of strangulations attributed to a mysterious glowing policeman, and dealing with a zombie plague that is ravaging the slums of the capital. Queen Victoria is kept alive by a primitive life-support system, while her agents, Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes, do battle with enemies of the crown, physical and supernatural. But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen, and journalists. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Book Synopsis Get ready to follow dazzling young writer George Mann to a London unlike any youve ever seen and into an adventure you will never forget, in The Affinity Bridge.
About the Book Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution.
0 kommentar(er)
