The Bookman
  • Published: 21 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780857665973
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $19.99
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The Bookman

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The first of a set of prestige re-issues of Lavie Tidhar's Bookman Histories Steampunk series.

In a 19th century unlike our own, the shadowy assassin known as the Bookman moves unseen. His weapons are books; his enemies are many. And when Orphan, a young man with a mysterious past, loses his love to the sinister machinations of the Bookman, Orphan would stop at nothing to bring her back from the dead.

In The Bookman, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar writes a love letter to books, and to the serial literature of the Victorian era: full of hair-breadth escapes and derring-dos, pirates and automatons, assassins and poets, a world in which real life authors mingle freely with their fictional creations – and where nothing is quite as it seems.

New 2016 edition includes the novelette “Murder in the Cathedral”. Discover, truthfully, what actually happened when Orphan visited Paris.

File Under: Steampunk [Alternate Victorian London | Reptilian royalty | Diabolical anarchists | Extraordinary adventure!]
  • Published: 21 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780857665973
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $19.99
Categories:

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Praise for The Bookman

"The Bookman pokes at the fat and waddled body of steampunk with its walking cane and leaves it on the roadside with its fresh take on Victorian London without loosing any steam on its way."
- Loudmouth Man

"The Bookman is a delight, crammed with gorgeous period detail, seat-of-the-pants adventure and fabulous set-pieces."
- The Guardian

"This is a steampunk gem... Bring on a sequel, Tidhar! I'm craving to know what happens after the ending!"
- SFF World

"Literary figures emerge from the fog, automatons patrol teh streets, space probes head for Mars. A potent and atmospheric steampunk adventure."
- Chris Wooding

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