The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age - Hardcover

Rankin, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575086351 ISBN 13: 9780575086357

Publisher: Gollancz, 2011

Synopsis

The newest opus from the Master of Far Fetched Fiction features magic, mayhem, mechanical marvels, messianic madness, and the music hall Colonel Katterfelto has returned to London, having departed America under something of a cloud€”of smoke, issuing from his Spiritual Laboratory, which the townsfolk of Wormcast, Arizona, marched upon with their flaming torches. This catastrophic conflagration caused considerable concern to the pious colonel, who had been engaged in the creation of "Heaven's last and best gift to Mankind," The Mechanical Messiah€”he was, after all, being guided in this Great Work by holy angels, communicating to him through his monkey butler, Darwin. It is 1897, the British Empire encompasses Mars, and an uneasy peace exists between the peoples of Venus, Jupiter, and Earth. In London the marvels of the modern age to be exp

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Rankin is the author of The Brightonomicon, The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code, Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse, Knees Up Mother Earth, Necrophenia, Retromancer, The Toyminator, and The Witches of Chiswick

Review:

"Gleeful anarchy...you're bound to have a favorite character to follow."  —San Francisco Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0575086351
• ISBN 13: 9780575086357
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488