Mark Hodder
Paperback | Pages: 511 pages Rating: 3.68 | 6716 Users | 890 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack |
| ISBN: | 1906727201 (ISBN13: 9781906727208) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Burton & Swinburne #1 |
| Characters: | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| Setting: | London, England,1861(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Philip K. Dick Award (2011) |
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London, 1861.Sir Richard Francis Burton—explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead.
Algernon Charles Swinburne—unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade; for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin!
They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor; Libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity; while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behavior to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End.
Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!
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| Title | : | The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne #1) |
| Author | : | Mark Hodder |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 511 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2010 by Snowbooks (first published 2010) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Fiction. Alternate History. Historical. Historical Fiction. Time Travel |
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Ratings: 3.68 From 6716 Users | 890 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne #1)
I'd been meaning to read this for ages, but when I finally got round to it I couldn't really find any enthusiasm. Which is sad, since there are some awesome reviews out there, but it really didn't come together well -- the characters are all caricatures, and if he could write more stereotypically Victorian women I don't want to read him doing it. Oh for some capable, sensible women...The alternate history and so on is interesting, and there's a certain energy to the prose, but it started slowly,Hodder needed a different, meaner editor for his first novel. Anywhere from 20% - 25% could go. Every incident goes on a little too long. The second half of every compound sentence could be dropped. Conversations are over before Hodder cuts them off. He never got the memo on adverbs.This is the only steampunk novel I have read, and I am not the best audience. I don't care about the gadgetry, and the gadgetry seems to be much of the attraction here. On the other hand, I am a sucker for time
Sir Richard Francis Burton thought his reputation was ruined after his friend betrayed him, but unknown to him certain things happened which changed the course of his life and the history of the Empire. He gets an unexpected job offer from the Prime minister to be a king's agent who would investigate the things Scotland Yard wouldn't or couldn't. He accepts, of course.He is not alone. A lot of people want to help. Some of them die because of it ((view spoiler)[Monty, the cab driver gets killed
I'm so glad I stumbled onto this imaginative steam-punk series. I loved the protagonist, a fictionalized Sir Richard Francis Burton, his side-kick, an equally fictionalized Algernon Charles Swinburne, and their adventures in this alternate Victorian England, complete with genetically modified animals, steam engine-propelled penny farthings and flying rotochairs (view spoiler)[and, of course, time-travel (hide spoiler)].I loved the inclusion of so many personalities of the time, such as Charles
The Spring Heeled Jack novel that introduces an alt-history England of the early 1860's with a steampunk flavor and features Richard Burton as main hero who becomes a "special agent" of the king - among other changes Queen Victoria is assassinated in 1840 - with Algernon Swinburne as a sort of sidekick, while many notables like Darwin, Brunel, Oscar Wilde have cameos is for most part an unstable mixture of the modern Victoriana - a bit of a misnomer as above but still - (Lazarus Club, Meaning of
This book was outrageous! It is hard to even describe the madness that went on. Alt-history, steampunk, sci-fi, lunacy. I both appreciated and did not appreciate knowing nothing about the book before starting. The beginning was rough to say the least, the writing is the worst part about the novel and since the story had not started I almost gave up in the first 40 pages.From human-animal hybrids, mechanical, centipede like trash collectors, (view spoiler)[time travel (hide spoiler)], and James
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