The Steampunk Trilogy The Steampunk Trilogy

The Steampunk Trilogy

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Descrizione dell’editore

An outrageous trio of novellas that twist the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of alternate history: “Spooky, haunting, hilarious” (William Gibson).

Welcome to the world of steampunk, a nineteenth century outrageously reconfigured through weird science. With his magnificent trilogy, acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo demonstrates how this unique subgenre of science fiction is done to perfection—reinventing a mannered age of corsets and industrial revolution with odd technologies born of a truly twisted imagination.

In “Victoria,” the inexplicable disappearance of the British monarch-to-be prompts a scientist to place a human-lizard hybrid clone on the throne during the search for the missing royal. But the doppelgänger queen comes with a most troubling flaw: an insatiable sexual appetite. The somewhat Lovecraftian “Hottentots” chronicles the very unusual adventure of Swiss naturalist and confirmed bigot Louis Agassiz as his determined search for a rather grisly fetish plunges him into a world of black magic and monsters. Finally, in “Walt and Emily,” the hitherto secret and quite steamy love affair between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is revealed in all its sensuous glory—as are their subsequent interdimensional travels aboard a singular ship that transcends the boundaries of time and reality.

Ingenious, hilarious, ribald, and utterly remarkable, Di Filippo’s The Steampunk Trilogy is a one-of-a-kind literary journey to destinations at once strangely familiar and profoundly strange.

GENERE
Fantascienza e fantasy
PUBBLICATO
2014
8 luglio
LINGUA
EN
Inglese
PAGINE
396
EDITORE
Open Road Media
DIMENSIONE
3,4
MB

Altri libri di Paul Di Filippo

La regina dei sassi La regina dei sassi
2014
Il demolitore di astronavi Il demolitore di astronavi
2013
La trilogia steampunk (Urania) La trilogia steampunk (Urania)
2018
Cosmocopia (Urania) Cosmocopia (Urania)
2018
L’ultimo caso della Taccola L’ultimo caso della Taccola
2016
Chasing the Queen of Sassi Chasing the Queen of Sassi
2014