352 pages
English language
Published 2014 by Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited.
This is some kind of steam punk mashup of The Time Machine and The War of The Worlds. There is even a Mr. Wells in the book. The beginning is nice, with Victorian milieu and language, but there is no depth in the story and I considered abandoning the book several times. Well, I did not, so now I at least know how the story ends.
I wasn't expecting the feelings of the Palma Map of Time novel, but up they came. With the latter chunk of the book not a surprise in retrospect.
Priest has been publishing novels since the 60's. I'd love to sit down and have a chat with him, that sort of life experience is something that I, in my thirties, really can't imagine.
This was really quite a clever work, poking much fun at the attitudes of a bygone era whilst taking some of the best science fiction of the 19th century for an extra spin.
Enjoyed.
I wasn't expecting the feelings of the Palma Map of Time novel, but up they came. With the latter chunk of the book not a surprise in retrospect.
Priest has been publishing novels since the 60's. I'd love to sit down and have a chat with him, that sort of life experience is something that I, in my thirties, really can't imagine.
This was really quite a clever work, poking much fun at the attitudes of a bygone era whilst taking some of the best science fiction of the 19th century for an extra spin.
Enjoyed.
