The Iron Assassin, Or, A Clockwork Prometheus
New York : Tor, 2015.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 320 pages ; 25 cm
"On an Earth that is not our own, Victoria never ascended the throne; the House of Hanover held England only briefly before being supplanted by the House of Harminster. It is a time of gaslamps and regularly scheduled airship flights, of trams and steam-driven clockwork with countless smoke-belching stacks. London, the capitol of the Empire of the Lion, is a filthy, crowded, fast-growing city where a series of shocking murders threatens the throne itself. Energetic young inventor Jack Straker believes he has created a weapon to defend the Crown: a reanimated, clockwork-enhanced corpse he can control. He introduces "the Iron Assassin" to the highly placed Lords who will decide if Straker's invention becomes a weapon of the Lion--or something to be destroyed. It quickly becomes apparent that the Iron Assassin is more self-willed than Straker intended, and that the zombie's past life is far more sinister than Straker thought. Has he created a runaway monster? Or the best guardian the Lion could ever hope for?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Inventors -- Fiction.
Zombies -- Fiction.
Resuscitation -- Fiction.
FICTION / Fantasy / General.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Inventors -- Fiction.
Zombies -- Fiction.
Resuscitation -- Fiction.
FICTION / Fantasy / General.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780765338464 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Greenwood | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."