Homunculus
A Tale of Langdon St. Ives
Published on 1. February 2013
320 pages
978-0-85768-983-2 (ISBN)
Description
A mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies above Victorian London. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including: the Royal Society; a fraudulent evangelist; a fiendish vivisectionist; an evil millionaire; and an assorted group led by the scientist and explorer, Professor Langdon St. Ives. Can St. Ives keep the alien homunculus out of the claws of the villainous Ignacio Narbondo?
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
1,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85768-983-2 (9780857689832)
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James P. Blaylock
Homunculus - American Edition
Book
07/2000
Babbage Press
€36.52
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Person
James P. 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 Philip K. Dick Award, he currently directs the creative writing programs at Chapman University. Blaylock lives in Orange CA with his wife. They have two sons.
