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Tor
April 2015
On Sale: April 7, 2015
414 pages
ISBN: 0765337193
EAN: 9780765337191
Kindle: B00HL0MA64
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Science Fiction
Following his spectacularly reviewed Half-Made World
duology, Felix Gilman pens a sweeping stand-alone tale of
Victorian science fiction, arcane exploration, and planetary
romance in The Revolutions. In 1893, young
journalist Arthur Shaw is at work in the British Museum
Reading Room when the Great Storm hits London, wreaking
unprecedented damage. In its aftermath, Arthur's newspaper
closes, owing him money, and all his debts come due at once.
His fiancé Josephine takes a job as a stenographer for some
of the fashionable spiritualist and occult societies of fin
de siècle London society. At one of her meetings, Arthur is
given a job lead for what seems to be accounting work, but
at a salary many times what any clerk could expect. The work
is long and peculiar, as the workers spend all day
performing unnerving calculations that make them hallucinate
or even go mad, but the money is compelling. Things
are beginning to look up when the perils of dabbling in the
esoteric suddenly come to a head: A war breaks out between
competing magical societies. Josephine joins one of them for
a hazardous occult exploration-an experiment which threatens
to leave her stranded at the outer limits of consciousness,
among the celestial spheres. Arthur won't give up his
great love so easily, and hunts for a way to save her, as
Josephine fights for survival...somewhere in the vicinity of
Mars.
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