THE AFFINITY BRIDGE by George Mann

[ediFanoB]

"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 new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst 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. For this is also a world where lycanthropy is a rampant disease that plagues the dirty whorehouses of Whitechapel, where poltergeist infestations create havoc in old country seats, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where nobody ever goes near the Natural History Museum."
This is the blurb.


This is the first adventure of Sir Maurice Newbury and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes.
Sir Maurice is an experienced anthropologist who works for the British Museum. Beside this he is an agent of the Queen. He also supports Scotland Yard.
After an airship crash Sir Maurice gets the order from the Queen to investigate the mysterious circumstances. And there is more work for Sir Maurice and Miss Veronica. Chief Inspector Sir Charles Bainbridge is hunting the "glowing bobby"who kills people around Whitechapel.

First of all this is a steampunk novel. I read several steampunk novels before and to be honest this is a real one.

The style of George Mann is fluent. The english isn't to difficult.
The whole book is a like a movie in your head. You feel surrounded by the fog.
You smell the tea. The automatons are great and also the airships. And not to forget there is also some action inside.

When you start to read you forget the time, just praying one more chapter, one more chapter, ......

If you like mysteries, Victorian Age, London, airships, automatons and steam
then read this book.

In case you never read a steampunk novel before then give this one a try.
If this book can't convince you to read more steampunk then you will never like steampunk.

And some more good things:

THE SHATTERED TEACUP by George Mann
This is a new short story with Newbury and Hobbes.
And you can download it for free as ebook and/or audiobook at
http://www.snowbooks.com/

THE OSIRIS RITUAL by George Mann will be relased in September 2009.

[Andrew Guile]

Sounds good might check it out ...when I have read the other 40 books I have waiting at home for my attentions!!!

[The Mad Hatter]

I'll defintely check it out. Who couldn't like steampunk and zombies? Mann is doing a signing at Book Expo America where I hope to grab a copy.

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[Milton Davis]

I've watched a lot of steampunk but never read a steampunk book. I might give this one a look. Is it available in the States?

[Milton Davis]

Answered my own question. It's available but it's damn expensive.

[The Mad Hatter]

The is supposedly the start of 6 books set in the same world. If you want to try steampunk in written form I'd Suggest S.M. Peters's Whitechapel Gods, which is very affordable here. It was one of my favorite reads last year. I just started the Peters's sophmore effort Ghost Ocean, which is his take onn Urban Fantasy. So far that is living up to expectations. I should have my review of Ghost Ocean up in the next week or so.