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The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives




The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives James P. Blaylock
476 pages
Publisher: Subterranean
ISBN-10: 1596061707
ISBN-13: 978-1596061705

A good deal of controversy arose late in the last century over what has been referred to by the more livid newspapers as The Horror in St. James Park or The Ape-box Affair....

So begins the first chronicle in the long and often obscure life of Langdon St. Ives, Victorian scientist and adventurer, respected member of the Explorers Club and of societies far more obscure, consultant to scientific luminaries, and secret, unheralded savior of humankind. From the depths of the Borneo jungles to the starlit reaches of outer space, and ultimately through the dark corridors of past and future time, the adventures of Langdon St. Ives invariably lead him back to the streets and alleys of the busiest, darkest, most secretive city in the world -- London in the age of steam and gaslamps, with the Thames fog settling in over the vast city of perpetual evening. St. Ives, in pursuit of the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, discovers the living horror of revivified corpses, the deep sea mystery of a machine with the power to drag ships to their doom, and the appalling threat of a skeleton-piloted airship descending toward the city of London itself, carrying within its gondola a living homunculus with the power to drive men mad....

This omnibus volume contains the collected Steampunk stories and novels of James P. Blaylock, one of the originators of the genre, which hearkens back to the worlds of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, a world where science was a work of the imagination, and the imagination was endlessly free to dream.

The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives will contain the original illustrations J. K. Potter created for the novel Lord Kelvin's Machine, plus many more for the novel, Homunculus, and the short stories.

Includes:
*"The Ape-Box Affair"
*"Two Views of a Cave Painting"
* "The Hole in Space"
*Homunculus
*"The Idol's Eye"
* Lord Kelvin's Machine

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Related: Beneath London | The Adventure of the Ring of Stones | River's Edge | The Aylesford Skull | The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs | The Ebb Tide | The Adventures of Langdon St Ives | Further Adventures of Langdon St Ives | Homunculus | Lord Kelvin's Machine | The Digging Leviathan