All in all a fun and very entertaining book. For sure, it's a bit too long at times, some dialogues are quite simple and annoying (especially towards the end, where they seem rushed) and, the bizarre devices and organic-machines that are some characters are well over the top if not ridiculous! Bu...
A wild ride through a warped Victorian England, so,warped that the attempted assassination of the queen is successful, leading us to an Albertian world. There is a wonderful mixing of fact and fiction, with real characters having their history tweeked slightly or massively, depending on how far...
Brilliant in every way, except one rather large hole: there were two women amongst a cast of hundreds of men. One served only to provide transport, the other was the villain, and not even the main villain! Something felt wrong and once I noticed it was the lack of females in the story, I realised...
Fidget jogged along beside them, panting, his tongue flapping and his nose twitching as he detected a myriad of enthralling odours. Swinburne asked, “Why do you think Saltzmann’s the source of your hallucinations?” “I’ve told you, Algy, they’re not ...
—Benjamin Disraeli Having left the still-senseless Krishnamurthy with hotel staff, and after sending a message up to suite 5 to warn the minister that Grumbles had developed a fault and should not under any circumstances be rewound, Burton and Swinburne took to the air. They’d covered half the di...
Shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is simple. Teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise. Follow him.” —ISABEL ARUNDELL, FROM THE PERSIAN PROVERB The next ten days of recov...
Whitechapel and Koluwai “I’m ruined! If I don’t pay the money, the Tanners will destroy my good name!” We were in my sitting room, Clarissa Stark in an armchair by the fireplace, while I anxiously paced up and down. “Inform the police,” my friend ad...
1 Four-inch sextant. 1 Mercurial horizon. 1 Prismatic compass. 2 Pocket chronometers. 3 Thermometers to 212°. 3 Ditto smaller, in cylindrical brass cases. 2 Casella's apparatus for measuring heights by the boiling point: steam and 1 for water. 1 Book, having its pages divided into half-inch squar...