- Lord Kelvin's Machine
Infobox Book
name = Lord Kelvin's Machine
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Jeffrey K. Potter for "Lord Kelvin's Machine"
author =James P. Blaylock
illustrator = Jeffrey K. Potter
cover_artist = Jeffrey K. Potter
country =United States
language = English
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genre =Science fiction novel ,Steampunk
publisher =Arkham House
release_date =1992
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = vii, 262 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87054-163-3
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followed_by ="Lord Kelvin's Machine" is a
science fiction novel by authorJames P. Blaylock . It was released in 1992 byArkham House in an edition of 4,015 copies. It was the author's first book published by Arkham House. The novel is the third in Blaylock'sSteampunk series, following "The Digging Leviathan" (1984) and "Homunculus" (1986). A substantially different novelette version first appeared in the Mid-December, 1985 issue ofIsaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine .Plot summary
In Victorian London, Alice, the wife of scientist-explorer, Langdon St. Ives, is murdered by his arch-nemesis, the hunchback Dr. Ignacio Narbondo. St. Ives and his manservant, Hasbro, pursue Narbondo across Norway. St. Ives then searches for Lord Kelvin's wondrous machine, which allows him to travel through time to confront Narbondo as a helpless child.
Note that the plot description of this book as described in
S. T. Joshi 'sSixty Years of Arkham House is wrong.Reprints
*New York: Ace, 1992,
*Sutton, UK: Severn House, 1993.
*London: Grafton, 1993.ee also
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List of steampunk works References
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=58 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=163 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=137-138 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4
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