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Determined to avert the doom of his beloved wife, scientist and detective Langdon St. Ives sees his only hope for doing so in Lord Kelvin's time machine, but the diabolical Dr. Ignacio Narbondo has other plans for the invention. Reprint.
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About the Author
Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Philip K. Dick Award, James P. Blaylock is the author of Winter Tides, All the Bells on Earth, Night Relics, The Paper Grail, The Last Coin, Land of Dreams, Homunculus, and The Digging Leviathan. He lives in Orange, California, where he is a creative writing instructor at Chapman University.
From Publishers Weekly
Blaylock ( The Paper Grail ) returns to the Victorian setting of his award-winning novel Homunculus in this tale of obsessive grief, time travel, mad scientists and gentlemanly adventure. The first of the three parts finds amateur scientist Langdon St. Ives despondent after a rainy chase of his nemesis, the evil Dr. Narbondo, ends with the death of his lady love, Alice. But St. Ives turns his grief to determination as he strives to thwart Narbondo's scheme to shift the earth into a collision with a passing comet. In the second part, an array of colorful, eccentric villains (including a revived Narbondo) compete to use Lord Kelvin's electromagnetic machine in an elaborate (and unlikely) blackmailing plot. In the novel's final section, St. Ives gives in to his private sorrow, using the machine to travel back in time in an attempt to kill a younger Narbondo and thus save Alice's life. Blaylock provides plenty of action--perhaps too much--and his characters are, if not realistic, entertaining, but this novel is not among his best work. The three episodes never cohere, and the driving force behind the plot (St. Ives's grief) is explored in detail only in the concluding section. Though St. Ives's journey through time is very well handled, at once playful and thoughtful, the sum of these three parts is less than a whole.
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- PublisherAce
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0441499724
- ISBN 13 9780441499724
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages244
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Cover Art Jim Thiesen (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. What is so special about Lord Kelvin's machine? Within its magical gears lies the secret of time. It's a devilish race against time when arch rivals of the present meet their future in the past. Wear at edges, reading creases, rubbed, light interior browning, heavier browning on interior covers. Size: 4 1/4" x 7". PAPERBACK. Seller Inventory # 009984
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Thiesen, Jim (cover) (illustrator). Corners a bit worn, minor edge wear and rubbing, binding tight, interior clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. "What is so special about Lord Kelvin's machine? The diabolical Dr. Ignacio Narbondo would kill to possess it. The accomplished scientist and detective Langdon St. Ives would do anything to use it. For within its magical gears lies the secret of time . . . the means for Dr. Narbondo to master the world . . . and the method by which St. Ives can avert the doom of his beloved wife. A devilish race against time, indeed. Especially when arch rivals of the present meet their future in the past! "; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall. Seller Inventory # 008143
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