The Return of the Discontinued Man: A Burton & Swinburne Adventure

Date

2014

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Pyr

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Journal Issue

Abstract

The novel features Charles Babbage (1791-1871), an English mathematician and inventor credited with having created the first automatic digital computer, and Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), who is being hunted by Spring Heeled Jack and experiencing hallucinations about a parallel reality. Burton and his companions then embark on an expedition through time which drives them into a steampunk-like future where an authoritarian intelligence rules over the British Empire.

Description

Keywords

Victorian Era , steampunk , Sir Francis Richard Burton , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Charles Babbage

Citation

Hodder, Mark. The Return of the Discontinued Man: A Burton & Swinburne Adventure. Pyr, 2014.