The Iron Assassin, or a Clockwork Prometheus
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"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
"On an Earth that is not our own, Victoria never ascended the throne; the House of Hanover held England only briefly before being supplanted by the House of Harminster. It is a time of gaslamps and regularly scheduled airship flights, of trams and steam-driven clockwork with countless smoke-belching stacks. London, the capitol of the Empire of the Lion, is a filthy, crowded, fast-growing city where a series of shocking murders threatens the throne itself. Energetic young inventor Jack Straker believes he has created a weapon to defend the Crown: a reanimated, clockwork-enhanced corpse he can control. He introduces "the Iron Assassin" to the highly placed Lords who will decide if Straker's invention becomes a weapon of the Lion--or something to be destroyed. It quickly becomes apparent that the Iron Assassin is more self-willed than Straker intended, and that the zombie's past life is far more sinister than Straker thought. Has he created a runaway monster? Or the best guardian the Lion could ever hope for?"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Tor, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 320 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780765338464
SUBJECTS
Inventors -- Fiction.
Resuscitation -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Steampunk fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Science fiction.
Fantasy fiction.