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The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives
"A good deal of controversy arose late in the last century over what has
been referred to by the more livid newspapers as 'The Horror in St. James
Park' or 'The Ape-box Affair'.." So begins the first chronicle in the long
and often obscure life of Langdon St. Ives, Victorian scientist and
adventurer, respected member of the Explorers Club and of societies far
more obscure, consultant to scientific luminaries, and secret, unheralded
savior of humankind. From the depths of the Borneo jungles to the starlit
reaches of outer space, and ultimately through the dark corridors of past
and future time, the adventures of Langdon St. Ives invariably lead him
back to the streets and alleys of the busiest, darkest, most secretive city
in the world -- London in the age of steam and gaslamps, with the Thames
fog settling in over the vast city of perpetual evening. St. Ives, in
pursuit of the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, discovers the living horror
of revivified corpses, the deep sea mystery of a machine with the power to
drag ships to their doom, and the appalling threat of a skeleton-piloted
airship descending toward the city of London itself, carrying within its
gondola a living homunculus with the power to drive men mad.. This omnibus
volume contains the collected Steampunk stories and novels of James P.
Blaylock, one of the originators of the genre, which hearkens back to the
worlds of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, a world where science was a work of
the imagination, and the imagination was endlessly free to dream.

Table of Contents:

"The Ape-Box Affair"
"Two Views of a Cave Painting"
"The Hole in Space"
Homunculus
"The Idol's Eye"
Lord Kelvin's Machine


The Ebb Tide
A flaming meteor over the Yorkshire Dales, a long-lost map drawn by the
lunatic Bill .Cuttle. Kraken, and the discovery of a secret subterranean
shipyard beneath the River Thames lead Professor Langdon St. Ives and his
intrepid friend Jack Owlesby into the treacherous environs of Morecambe
Bay, with its dangerous tides and vast quicksand pits. They descend
beneath the sands of the Bay itself, into a dark, unknown ocean littered
with human bones and the remnants of human dreams. In this tale of murder,
infamy, and Victorian intrigue, the tides of destiny shift relentlessly
and rapidly as the stakes grow ever higher and the pursuit more deadly...

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