The Aylesford Skull

James P. Blaylock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2013
Titan Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85768-979-5 (ISBN)

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Professor Langdon St Ives brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer is at home in Aylesford with his family. Not far away a steam launch is taken by pirates, the crew murdered, and a grave is possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of St Ives.

Professor Langdon St. Ives brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer is at home in Aylesford with his family. Not far away a steam launch is taken by pirates, the crew murdered, and a grave is possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of St. Ives. When Narbondo kidnaps his son Eddie, St. Ives races into London in pursuit.

James Paul Blaylock was born in Long Beach, California, in 1950, and attended California State University, where he received an MA. He was befriended and mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with his contemporaries K.W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded - along with Powers and Jeter - as one of the founding fathers of the steampunk movement. Winner of two World Fantasy Awards and a Philip K. Dick Award.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.1.2013
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	131 x 203 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
ISBN-10	0-85768-979-7 / 0857689797
ISBN-13	978-0-85768-979-5 / 9780857689795
Zustand	Neuware