Author: Mark Hodden.
Title: The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack.
Publisher: Prometheus Books.
Copyright: 2010.
Pages: 400.
Observations and Impressions:
This is a steam-punk book set in an alternate Victorian England with a time traveler nick-named Spring-Heeled Jack. Oxford, his real name, change the course of history by having Queen Victoria assassinated. History diverged from there...
James Burton and his companion, Charles Swinburne, set out to thwart Oxford's changes to their world. More divergence happens along the way until it's no longer the universe of the Victorian era. It's a new world of steam-punk and weird science. Spring-Heeled Jack is eventually dealt with permanently. But neither Burton's Victorian England nor the British Empire will ever be the same again...
Recommended.
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