Title: Lord Kelvin's Machine
Title Record # 40584
Author: James P. Blaylock
Date: 1985-12-15
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Langdon St. Ives
Language: English
Current Tags: steampunk (1), mad scientist (1), comet (1), england (1), Doomsday device (1) Add Tags
Author: James P. Blaylock
Date: 1985-12-15
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Langdon St. Ives
Language: English
Note: Expanded into a novel in 1992.
Synopsis: A steampunk era daring scientist-explorer discovers that a criminal mastermind has contracted with a mad scientist to use a device (invented by Lord Kelvin) to control the flight of an oncoming comet for purposes of global extortion, and endeavors to defeat the dastardly plotters.
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Current Tags: steampunk (1), mad scientist (1), comet (1), england (1), Doomsday device (1) Add Tags
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1985 | 1985-12-15 | ed. Shawna McCarthy | Davis Publications | $2.00?$: US dollar |
196 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | J. K. Potter | ||
Steampunk | 2008-05-00 | ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer | Tachyon Publications | 978-1-892391-75-9 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
x+ 373 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Insect Lab | |
Subterranean Online, Summer 2009 | 2009-08-00 | ed. William Schafer | Subterranean Press | $0?$: US dollar |
webzine?Used for Internet-based periodical publications which are otherwise not downloadable as an "ebook". |
mag | ||||
Steampunk | date unknown | ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer | Tachyon Publications | 978-1-892391-75-9 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
x+ 373 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Insect Lab | |
Steampunk | date unknown | ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer | Tachyon Publications | 978-1-892391-75-9 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
x+ 373 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Insect Lab |