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The transference engine
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- ISBN: 9780756409531 (paperback) :
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314 pages ; 18 cm - Publisher: New York, New York : DAW Books, Inc., [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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| General Note: | Includes short story: Dancing in cinders. |
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| Subject: | Lovelace, Ada King -- Countess of -- 1815-1852 -- Fiction Magic -- Fiction Attempted assassination -- Fiction Steampunk fiction |
| Genre: | Fantasy fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Interlakes Branch | PB STJ (Text) | 33923005713734 | Fantasy | Volume hold | Available | - |
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When Magdala and Mary Godwin, aka Wary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who have started new lives in London where they care for the Book View Café's community, have a mystery to solve involving a royal assassination plot and the disappearance of some of their members, they wonder if Lord Bryon's evil Transference Engine has returned with a vengeance. Original. - Penguin Putnam
A fantastical steampunk novel of magic and machines set in an alternate 1830s London
Madame Magdala has reinvented herself many times, trying to escape Lord Byron's revenge. She destroyed the Transference Engine Byron hoped to use to transfer his soul into a more perfect body and perpetuate his life eternally. A fanatical cult of necromancers continues Byron's mission to force Magdala and Byron's only legitimate child--Ada Lovelace--to rebuild the machine and bring Byron back.
Magdala now bills herself as the bastard daughter of a Gypsy King. She runs a fashionable London coffee salon and reading room while living a flamboyant lifestyle at the edge of polite society. Behind the scenes, she and Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, use the massive library stored at the Bookview Cafe to track political and mercantile activity around the world. They watch to make certain the cult of necromancy surrounding Lord Byron, the poet king who worshipped death, cannot bring him back to life.
On the eve of Queen Victoria's coronation in June of 1838, rumors of an assassination attempt abound. Both the Bow Street Runners and Magdala's army of guttersnipe spies seek to discover the plot and the plotters. Who is behind the mysterious black hot air balloon that shoots searing light from a hidden cannon, and who or what is the target? And who is kidnapping young girls from all walks of life?
Desperately, Magdala and her allies follow the clues, certain that someone is building a new Transference Engine. But is it to bring back the dead or destroy the living?
Includes a special bonus story, "Dancing in Cinders."
