Flaming London - Hardcover

Lansdale, Joe R.

3.55

264 ratings by Goodreads

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ISBN 10: 1596060255 ISBN 13: 9781596060258

Publisher: Subterranean, 2005

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Ned the Seal, whom Dr. Momo (aka Moreau; see H. G. Wells'Island of Dr. Moreau, 1896) gave an enhanced brain, didn't perish at the end of Lansdale's Zeppelins West (2001). Mark Twain found him, worse for shark wear, on the beach at Jules Verne's Mediterranean place, shortly before Martians (see also Wells'War of the Worlds, 1898) started zapping everything that moved. Fortunately, Verne had a prototype speedboat, thanks to the mechanical skills of Passepartout, former valet of adventurer Phileas Fogg (see Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, 1873), for whom Mrs. Verne left Jules, and the speedboat converted into a touring balloon, in which Verne, Passepartout, Twain, and Ned got away to an island infested with pirates who had captured a Kong-sized red ape from Mars (though an alternate one from the zappers'planet) and the Flying Dutchman. Wait a minute! What's going on here? Only one of the wildest -alternate-worlds, rip-in-space-time, sf-pastiche romps this side of fifties B movies, one whose only possible drawback is its relentless proctologic humor. Ray Olson
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Starred Review. Against the backdrop of a Martian invasion � la The War of the Worlds, Lansdale's ripsnorting sequel to Zeppelins West (2001) chronicles the fantastic adventures of two elderly authors, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and Jules Verne. Other members of the madcap cast include a young H.G. Wells, Sitting Bull, a Martian ape, a steam-powered robot and an intelligent seal (and future dime novelist), whose diary and journal entries form the bulk of the narrative. All must deal with the havoc caused by Wells's dang time traveler, the hero of The Time Machine, who has opened multiplying cracks in the time continuum. Seasoned with earthy, down-home humor, Lansdale's homage to Twain, Verne and Wells is sci-fi fun at its boisterous, silly best. Timothy Truman's delightful cover art and interior illustrations perfectly complement the text. (Dec.)
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