The adventures of Langdon St. Ives / James P. Blaylock ; illustrated by J.K. Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaylock, James P., 1950-

Contributor:

Potter, J. K., illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

St. Ives, Langdon (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

St. Ives, Langdon (Fictitious character).

Science fiction.

Short stories.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

470 pages ; 26cm

Place of Publication:

Burton, Mich. : Subterranean Press, [2008]

Summary:

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....

Contents:

Ape-box affair

Hole in space

Idol's eye

Homounculus

Two views of a cave painting

Lord Kelvin's machine

Parenthetically speaking.

ISBN:

9781596061705

1596061707

OCLC:

184829620