The Return of the Discontinued Man: The Burton & Swinburne Adventures - Softcover

Hodder, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009195066X ISBN 13: 9780091950668

Publisher: Del Rey, 2015

Synopsis

Burton and Swinburne return in a new wildly imaginative steampunk adventure, and this time they're facing their greatest foe...Leicester Square, London. Blood red snow falls from the sky and a strange creature, disorientated and apparently insane, materialises out of thin air. Spring Heeled Jack has returned, and he is intent on one thing: hunting Sir Richard Francis Burton. Burton is experiencing one hallucination after another; visions of parallel realities and future history plague his every thought. These send him, and his companions, on an unimaginable expedition - a voyage through time itself...

About this title

About the Author

Mark Hodder is the author of A Red Sun Also Rises and the Burton & Swinburne novels The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man, and Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon. A former BBC writer, editor, journalist, and web producer, Mark left London, England, for Valencia, Spain, to de-stress and write novels. He has a degree in cultural studies and loves British history, good food, cutting-edge gadgets, Tom Waits, and a vast assortment of oddities. He's the creator and caretaker of the Blakiana website celebrating Sexton Blake, the most written-about fictional detective in English publishing history. Visit him at markhodder.blogspot.com, www.facebook.com/ burtonandswinburne, and on Twitter @TheDissuader.

From Booklist

In this fifth installment of his popular Burton and Swinburne steampunk alternate-history series, Hodder brings back the titular antihero of his award-winning novel The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (2010). This time the mythical leaping phantom plays an entirely different role for notorious explorer Richard Burton and his sidekick, the famous poet Algernon Swinburne, acting here as a messenger with a warning about a catastrophic rift in time. After red snow begins falling from the sky and Burton experiences a series of hallucinations involving parallel universes, the pair traces these disruptions to an experiment conducted by brilliant inventor Charles Babbage. Before they know it, Burton and Swinburne find themselves jumping into the future in 54-year increments, with their ultimate destination a radically transformed England in 2202. As in the previous novels, Hodder puts his knack for tall-tale spinning on full display, with such Victorian England celebrities as Herbert Spencer and H. G. Wells rubbing elbows with each other in one imaginative and enthralling scenario after another. Hodder’s growing legion of fans won’t be disappointed. --Carl Hays

Edition details

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 009195066X
• ISBN 13: 9780091950668
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 364