1862: Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces.
Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy.
"Sir Richard Francis Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne's investigation into a theft of black diamonds, ultimately embroiling them in the affairs of a dubious claimant, supposedly the heir of a cursed estate...is deliciously entertaining." -- Steampunk Scholar
| ISBN: | 9781906727994 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2011 |
| Author: | Mark Hodder |
| Publisher: | Snowbooks |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 416 pages |
| Series: | Burton & Swinburne |
| Genres: |
Science fiction: steampunk Alternative history fiction |