by Paul J McAuley · Edicoes Fio da Navalha · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896372316
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«Invenção De Leonardo» is the alternate history novel by Paul J. McAuley, published by Edicoes Fio da Navalha in paperback and in Portuguese.
In an alternative Renaissance Florence, Leonardo da Vinci's machines have unleashed an industrial revolution. The murder of an assistant to the painter Raphael leads young Pasqual and Niccolò Machiavelli to investigate a conspiracy of industrial espionage, politics and black magic that reaches the Inquisition and the Pope.
Portuguese edition published in 2012. Work originally published as «Pasquale's Angel» in 1994; nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and winner of the Sidewise Award in 1995.
For readers interested in alternate histories, historical fiction and Renaissance steampunk aesthetics.
Paul J. McAuley is a British botanist and science fiction author. A biologist by training, McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction. His novels deal with themes such as biotechnology, alternative history/reality, and space travel.
