- Hardcover: 470 pages
- Publisher: Subterranean Press; Deluxe edition (November 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596061707
- ISBN-13: 978-1596061705
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 885 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,303,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Received and read with joy, Nov 19 2008
By Margaret Dybala "too many books, too little time" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives (Hardcover)
To be totally honest, I have to say right at the beginning that I am predisposed to love anything Mr. Blaylock writes. So it was with joy that I set in my comfy armchair, cozy under a quilt for the night, and stayed up the entire night reading this wonderful collection. What we have in this book is the Langdon St. Ives stories compiled with the novellas "The Homunculus" and "Lord Kelvin's Machine." What we get is a coherent whole, a novel really, about Professor St. Ives, and his steampunk adventures.
If you love the English language, if you love science fiction/fantasy as it might have been written by P.G. Wodehouse, if you get chills of pleasure when you read well crafted stories, this book is for you.
I cannot say enough good things about this fine author. The only negative I can think of is that he doesn't publish often enough for me!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
P.G. Wodehouse meets Jules Verne - well, maybe Tim Powers, Dec 30 2008
By rampageous_cuss - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives (Hardcover)
This volume collects four short stories ("The Ape-Box Affair", "The Hole in Space", "The Idol's Eye", "Two Views of a Cave Painting") and two novels ("Homunculus", "Lord Kelvin's Machine") all featuring the over-the-top adventures of Victorian inventor-hero, Langdon St Ives. If you liked The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series you'll probably like these; "Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius" is silly steampunk in much the same vein (although comic-book format.)
St Ives, his super-valet Hasbro, young Jack Owlesby, and an assortment of other colorful eccentrics try to save the world, or at least themselves, usually from villainous mad scientist Ignacio Narbondo (or at least themselves!) Airships, infernal devices, victoriana, and absurd inventions collide into (usually) absurdly satisfying endings.
I prefer Blaylock's first period ("The Elfin Ship," etc) and third period ("The Last Coin" et al) to these second period stories, but they're still consistently mildly amusing in a Wodehouse kind of way.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good, solid read, Jun 22 2011
By B. Talbot - Published on Amazon.com
These stories are very well written - they exude style, but not in a distracting way, but more subtly. It's just enjoyable to read the words. The settings and stories are interesting as well, although for most of them the characters are not particularly developed. Overall, I'm glad I read this book, even though it was not a page turner.
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