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314 pages. A fantastical steampunk novel of magic and machines set in an alternate 1830s London. Madame Magdala has settled comfortably into her new life in London, as the proprietress of the Book View Caf, a coffee shop and extensive library. Her silent partner is Ada Lovelace, who will one day become the world?s first compu ter programmer?but who now is simply the young woman for whom Madame Magdala was a nursery maid. Ten years ago, Ada?s father, Lord Bryon, was known as a great writer. But few knew of his powers as a necromancer. Upon his death, his devoted followers tried to repair the Transference Engine?a device that would allow Byr on?s soul to claim the body of its choice. Magadala, along with Mary Godwin?a.k. a. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?had to stop them. While the original Transferenc e Engine was destroyed, they were unsure whether they truly stopped Bryon and hi s followers. Together, they fled to safety in London, and built new futures for themselves. Now, Magdala and Mary care for the Book View Caf?s community, leadi ng fashion, following gossip, and reading the latest periodicals. But when membe rs of the caf?s community mysteriously disappear, and rumors of a threat of roya l assassinaton grow, Magdala finds herself with new mysteries to solve. The more she learns, the clearer it becomes that this is the same mystery returned?the T ransference Engine is back with a vengeance.…
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- Title
- The Transference Engine
- Author
- Julia Verne St. John
- Publisher
- Daw Books
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0756409535
- ISBN 13
- 9780756409531
- Dimensions
- 17.4cm x 2.2cm x 10.8cm
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
Madame Magdala has reinvented herself many times, trying to escape Lord Byron's revenge. She destroyed the Transference Engine Byron hoped to use to transfer his soul into a more perfect body and perpetuate his life eternally. A fanatical cult of necromancers continues Byron's mission to force Magdala and Byron's only legitimate child--Ada Lovelace--to rebuild the machine and bring Byron back.
Magdala now bills herself as the bastard daughter of a Gypsy King. She runs a fashionable London coffee salon and reading room while living a flamboyant lifestyle at the edge of polite society. Behind the scenes, she and Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, use the massive library stored at the Bookview Cafe to track political and mercantile activity around the world. They watch to make certain the cult of necromancy surrounding Lord Byron, the poet king who worshipped death, cannot bring him back to life.
On the eve of Queen Victoria's coronation in June of 1838, rumors of an assassination attempt abound. Both the Bow Street Runners and Magdala's army of guttersnipe spies seek to discover the plot and the plotters. Who is behind the mysterious black hot air balloon that shoots searing light from a hidden cannon, and who or what is the target? And who is kidnapping young girls from all walks of life?
Desperately, Magdala and her allies follow the clues, certain that someone is building a new Transference Engine. But is it to bring back the dead or destroy the living?
Includes a special bonus story, "Dancing in Cinders."
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Book Express (NZ)
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