Lazarus Machine by Paul Crilley

Lazarus Machine

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Paul Crilley

Pyr · Ebook · November 13, 2012

Steampunk adventure for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who An alternate 1895, A world where Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace perfected the Difference Engine.

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Who it’s for
Come for a paranoid, steam-driven London; stay for the mystery entangling its criminal underworld and government.
Genres
Steampunk, YA Fantasy, Historical YA Fantasy
Published
Pyr, November 13, 2012

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Steampunk adventure for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who An alternate 1895, A world where Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace perfected the Difference Engine. Where steam and Tesla-powered computers are everywhere. Where automatons powered by human souls venture out into the sprawling London streets. Where the Ministry, a secretive government agency, seeks to control everything in the name of the Queen.

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It is in this claustrophobic, paranoid city that seventeen-year old Sebastian Tweed and his conman father struggle to eke out a living. But all is not well. A murderous, masked gang has moved into London, spreading terror through the criminal ranks as they take over the underworld. As the gang carves up more and more of the city, a single name comes to be uttered in fearful whispers, Professor Moriarty. When Tweed's father is kidnapped by Moriarty, he is forced to team up with information broker, Octavia Nightingale, to track him down. But he soon realizes that his father's disappearance is just a tiny piece of a political conspiracy that could destroy the British Empire and plunge the world into a horrific war.

Steam and Shadows

Come for a paranoid, steam-driven London; stay for the mystery entangling its criminal underworld and government.

Come here for

  • A steam-powered alternate 1895, where automatons roam London and Moriarty inspires fear.
  • A detective adventure threaded with secretive government power and political conspiracy.

Expect

  • A brisk blend of Victorian machinery, mystery, and adventure.
  • A young protagonist drawn into a conspiracy with stakes beyond one kidnapping.

Where it sits

Steampunk99%
Historical YA Fantasy77%
YA Fantasy59%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Fantasy
  • Historical YA Fantasy
  • Steampunk
Authors
Paul Crilley
Publisher
Pyr
Published
November 13, 2012
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
YA Fantasy