Description: Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side.
Brief description: GEORGE MANN is the author of the Newbury & Hobbes Investigations, beginning with The Affinity Bridge, and other works of fiction including Ghosts of Manhattan and official Doctor Who tie-in material. He edited the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction anthology series and The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
Review Quotes:
"Steampunk is making a comeback, and with this novel Mann is leading the charge....An engaging melodrama that rattles along at a breakneck pace." --The Guardian
"Mann is at the forefront of the new generation of UK movers and shakers.Tremendous fun. Mann writes great chase scenes! [The Affinity Bridge] marks George Mann as a writer of enormous promise." --SFRevu "Excellent world building; captures the Sherlock Holmes feel; never a boring passage.A hugely entertaining book." --SFSignal "An enormous pile of awesome." --Chris Roberson, World Fantasy Award Finalist and Sideways Award Winner