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Illustrator Jeffrey K. Potter Country United States Publication date 1992 Originally published 1992 Preceded by Homunculus Publisher Arkham House | 3.4/5 Goodreads Cover artist Jeffrey K. Potter Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Genre Steampunk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by Ebb Tide, The Aylesford Skull Similar James Blaylock books, Langdon St Ives books, Steampunk books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lord Kelvin's Machine is a science fiction novel by author James P. Blaylock. It was released in 1992 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,015 copies. The author's first book published by Arkham House, the novel is the third in Blaylock's Steampunk series, following The Digging Leviathan (1984) and Homunculus (1986). A substantially different novelette version first appeared in the Mid-December 1985 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
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In Victorian London, Alice, the wife of scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives, is murdered by his nemesis, the hunchback Dr. Ignacio Narbondo. St. Ives and his valet, Hasbro, pursue Narbondo across Norway, contesting Narbondo's plot to destroy the earth and, later, efforts to revivify Narbondo's apparently frozen corpse. In the process St. Ives gains access to a powerful device created by Lord Kelvin, which allows St. Ives to travel through time.