Affinity Bridge

#1 Newbury & Hobbes Investigations

George Mann

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St Martins/Tor
27 April 2010

Science fiction; Fantasy; Cultural & Period Fantasy; 18th Century; England; Mythological Creatures, People & Places; Science; Detective Sci-Fi; Classic Steampunk

Series: Newbury & Hobbes

Get ready to follow dazzling young writer George Mann to a London unlike any you've ever seen and into an adventure you will never forget, in The Affinity Bridge.

Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen, and journalists.

But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side.

Queen Victoria is kept alive by a primitive life-support system, while her agents, Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes, do battle with enemies of the crown, physical and supernatural. This time Newbury and Hobbes are called to investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot, while attempting to solve a string of strangulations attributed to a mysterious glowing policeman, and dealing with a zombie plague that is ravaging the slums of the capital.

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By: George Mann
Imprint: St Martins/Tor
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 386g
ISBN: 9780765323224
ISBN 10: 0765323222
Series: Newbury & Hobbes
Pages: 334
Publication Date: 27 April 2010
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Affinity Bridge (#1 Newbury & Hobbes Investigations)

Steampunk is making a comeback, and with this novel Mann is leading the charge....An engaging melodrama that rattles along at a breakneck pace. --The Guardian Mann is at the forefront of the new generation of UK movers and shakers.Tremendous fun. Mann writes great chase scenes! [ The Affinity Bridge] marks George Mann as a writer of enormous promise. -- SFRevu Excellent world building; captures the Sherlock Holmes feel; never a boring passage.A hugely entertaining book. -- SFSignal An enormous pile of awesome. --Chris Roberson, World Fantasy Award Finalist and Sideways Award Winner