{"id":243,"date":"2011-01-14T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/01\/14\/books-received-11411-pyr-edition\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:33","slug":"books-received-11411-pyr-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/01\/14\/books-received-11411-pyr-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 1\/14\/11 Pyr edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51hZxfO7t1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Curious-Case-Clockwork-Man-Swinburne\/dp\/1616143592\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1295020763&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Mark Hodder<br \/>\nCover by Jon Sullivan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CONTINUING THE HIT STEAMPUNK SERIES!<\/p>\n<p>It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king\u2019s agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended. <\/p>\n<p>When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection\u2014black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. <\/p>\n<p>His investigation leads to involvement with the media sensation of the age: the Tichborne Claimant, a man who insists that he\u2019s the long lost heir to the cursed Tichborne estate. Monstrous, bloated, and monosyllabic, he\u2019s not the aristocratic Sir Roger Tichborne known to everyone, yet the working classes come out in force to support him. They are soon rioting through the streets of London, as mysterious steam wraiths incite all-out class warfare. <\/p>\n<p>From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from s\u00e9ances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons, meeting along the way the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Florence Nightingale, and Charles Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). <\/p>\n<p>Can the king\u2019s agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play? <\/p>\n<p>Burton and Swinburne\u2019s second adventure\u2014The Clockwork Man of Trafalgar Square\u2014is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery that pushes forward the three-volume story arc begun in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strange-Affair-Spring-Heeled-Swinburne\/dp\/1616142405\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1295021126&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51MEA%2B4VdeL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Halo-Aeons-Gate-Book\/dp\/161614355X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1295021255&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Black Halo (The Aeon&#8217;s Gate, Book 2)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Sam Sykes<br \/>\nCover by Paul Young<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>THE TOME OF THE UNDERGATES HAS BEEN RECOVERED&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and the gates of hell remain closed. Lenk and his five companions set sail to bring the accursed relic away from the demonic reach of Ulbecetonth, the Kraken Queen. But after weeks at sea, tensions amidst the adventurers are rising. Their troubles are only beginning when their ship crashes upon an island made of the bones left behind from a war long dead. <\/p>\n<p>And it appears that bloodthirsty alien warrior women, fanatical beasts from the deep, and heretic-hunting wizards are the least of their concerns. Haunted by their pasts, plagued by their gods, tormented by their own people, and gripped by madness personal and peculiar, their greatest foes may yet be themselves. <\/p>\n<p>The reach of Ulbecetonth is longer than hell can hold.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51AGi-BF6FL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wolfsangel-M-D-Lachlan\/dp\/1616143576\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1295021512&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Wolfsangel<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby M. D. Lachlan<br \/>\nCover by Paul Young<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Viking king Authun leads his men on a raid against an Anglo-Saxon village. Men and women are killed indiscriminately, but Authun demands that no child be touched. He is acting on prophecy\u2014a prophecy that tells him that the Saxons have stolen a child from the gods. If Authun, in turn, takes the child and raises him as an heir, the child will lead his people to glory. <\/p>\n<p>But Authun discovers not one child, but twin baby boys. After ensuring that his faithful warriors, witnesses to what has happened, die during the raid, Authun takes the children and their mother home, back to the witches who live on the troll wall. And he places his destiny in their hands. <\/p>\n<p>So begins a stunning multivolume fantasy epic that will take a werewolf from his beginnings as the heir to a brutal Viking king down through the ages. It is a journey that will see him hunt for his lost love through centuries and lives, and see the endless battle between the wolf, Odin, and Loki, the eternal trickster, spill over into countless bloody conflicts from our history and our lives. <\/p>\n<p>This is the myth of the werewolf as it has never been told before and marks the beginning of an extraordinary new fantasy series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by Mark Hodder Cover by Jon Sullivan Promo copy: CONTINUING THE HIT STEAMPUNK SERIES! 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