by Mark Hodder · Snowbooks Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781906727994
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«The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man» is the steampunk novel by Mark Hodder, published by Snowbooks Ltd in paperback (462 pages, in English).
In the alternative London of 1862, the king's agent Richard Francis Burton and the poet Algernon Swinburne investigate a brass mechanical man in Trafalgar Square. The clue leads to the black diamonds of the Garnier Collection and to the Tichborne Claimant, a supposed heir. Amid rival factions and steam technology, they sense that someone is plotting something.
Second instalment of Mark Hodder's Burton & Swinburne saga, continuing the plot begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack.
Aimed at fans of Victorian steampunk, alternative history and science fiction with fantastical elements.
Mark Hodder is an English author, since 2008 living in Spain. His six-part series of 'Burton & Swinburne' steampunk novels opened with The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, which went on to win the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. The following two novels, The Curious Case of the Clockwork-Man and Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon, were released in 2011 and 2012 respectively to wide acclaim from fans of the genre, with the latter nominated for a Sidewise Award. His fourth novel in the Burton & Swinburne series, The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi, was also nominated for a Sidewise Award.
