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| Original Title: | The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man |
| ISBN: | 1616143592 (ISBN13: 9781616143596) |
| Edition Language: | URL http://www.pyrsf.com/ClockworkMan.html |
| Series: | Burton & Swinburne #2 |
| Characters: | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| Setting: | London, England,1862(United Kingdom) |
Mark Hodder
Paperback | Pages: 355 pages Rating: 3.94 | 3232 Users | 305 Reviews
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It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be. . . .Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended.
When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection—black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times.
His investigation leads to involvement with the media sensation of the age: the Tichborne Claimant, a man who insists that he’s the long lost heir to the cursed Tichborne estate. Monstrous, bloated, and monosyllabic, he’s not the aristocratic Sir Roger Tichborne known to everyone, yet the working classes come out in force to support him. They are soon rioting through the streets of London, as mysterious steam wraiths incite all-out class warfare.
From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from séances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons, meeting along the way the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Florence Nightingale, and Charles Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
Can the king’s agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play?
Burton and Swinburne’s second adventure—The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man—is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery that pushes forward the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack.
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| Title | : | The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (Burton & Swinburne #2) |
| Author | : | Mark Hodder |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 355 pages |
| Published | : | March 2011 by Pyr (first published 2011) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Alternate History. Fiction. Mystery |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 3232 Users | 305 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (Burton & Swinburne #2)
A lot less confusing than book one. Some brilliant ideas like the non lethal pistol. A lot of liberties taking with Victorian figure in very strange ways.Thrilling! I loved it! Just wait until chapter 11... now THAT is how you end a chapter! This whole affair is right up my alley, scratching itches long left pruritic in my reading interests.Mark Hodder has crafted an intelligent steampunk British alt-history romp with superb pulp sensibilities and unbelievably complicated goings-on that are deftly juggled and lead to a satisfying conclusion. It can't be easy to craft a compelling tale weaving together giant swans pulling riders in kites,
The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man is the second book in the Burton and Swinburne steampunk series by Mark Hodder.I wasnt expecting the book to be as good as the first, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack. It wasnt. It was even better.The characters of Sir Richard Burton and Algernon Swinburne have rounded out quite a bit. Burton seems to be a little less dark, and Swinburne is just as enchantingly perverted as before, with added sarcasm.This story revolves around black diamonds known as
The second of the Burton and Swinburne adventures and although some of the elements of the first book that were so funny and original are now not original they are still funny and the pace of the plot is fast enough to keep you hooked. It's a series you definitely want to start at the beginning I think in order to get the full enjoyment from the characters but it remains to be seen whether Hodder can pull it off in the third book, which I believe is already out. Unlike Christopher Fowler's
The second book in a series, set in an alternate-history steampunk England. This time, Richard Burton and Algernon Swinburne are up against ghosts, family curses, Professor Charles Babbage, and manipulators of time and space, in what seems to be unwinding as an epic story presenting an existential threat to the British Empire. It reminds me a lot of Ian Tregillis's Milkweed Triptych trilogy.This is a thick, meaty adventure in a genre I'm not usually that interested in (steampunk), but I enjoyed
The second in the Burton and Swinburne adventures, this is the sequel to the debut novel, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack , which introduced us to the adventures of Richard Burton and Algernon Swinburne. Again, Hodder drapes his story over actual historical events using them as the basis for his story, but never being afraid to let the story trample all over the historical accuracy. His trick for this is based in the events of The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack the Albertian
I ended up picking up this book as a part of the Booktubeathon 2015 as the 'book I really want to read' challenge and I have to say I am very happy that I did chose this one because not only was it highly exciting and fun to get through, but returning to this world and these characters made me so very happy again. This book once more focuses on the character of Sir Francis Burton, the famous explorer, and his good friend Swinburne as they become mixed up once more in the troubles and mysteries
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