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Title	:	The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (Burton & Swinburne #2)
Author	:	Mark Hodder
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 355 pages
Published	:	March 2011 by Pyr (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Alternate History. Fiction. Mystery

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It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be. . . . Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection—black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. His investigation leads to involvement with the media sensation of the age: the Tichborne Claimant, a man who insists that he’s the long lost heir to the cursed Tichborne estate. Monstrous, bloated, and monosyllabic, he’s not the aristocratic Sir Roger Tichborne known to everyone, yet the working classes come out in force to support him. They are soon rioting through the streets of London, as mysterious steam wraiths incite all-out class warfare. From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from séances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons, meeting along the way the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Florence Nightingale, and Charles Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Can the king’s agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play? Burton and Swinburne’s second adventure—The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man—is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery that pushes forward the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack.

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Original Title:	The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man
ISBN:	1616143592 (ISBN13: 9781616143596)
Edition Language:	URL http://www.pyrsf.com/ClockworkMan.html
Series:	Burton & Swinburne #2
Characters:	Sir Richard Francis Burton, Algernon Charles Swinburne
Setting:	London, England,1862(United Kingdom)

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By Jove, I love Mark Hodder. Once again he's set the bar that all other steampunk ought to be measured by. One - he knows his history. Two - he knows how to spin a fantastic adventure. Three - he's completely nuts. Gone are the exploding werewolves of the first book in this series, only to be replaced by a behemoth, flesh-eating rabblerouser, ghosts made of steam, and unfailingly polite zombies.This book starts off at a slower burn than the first installment, but rises through several

This series is awesome. Hodder delivers some wacky stuff, and I love it. I also love all of the historical figures incorporated into the story. Hodder delivers an insane story while giving you the opportunity to learn some more about the Victorian era. Burton and Swinburne are great characters as well. This series is great!

4 StarsFirst let me say that Hodder's first two novels are an absolute joy to read.  These are steampunk science fiction detective stories that are lead by a unique pair in Swineburne and Burton. A poet and a detective with a love of adventure. The first book really worked because it developed our loveable protagonists and it also had an awkward antagonist that one might feel sorry for. The world building and alt history play make these books a blast to read. The first book had some structure

There are a number of things which connect this book with The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, so some spoilers are inevitable (at least for the first book).When Spring Heeled Jack had altered time, he changed the original future. One of the main questions in this book is "When you take route A over route B, does route B cease to exist?". It seems that is not the case. Each time Spring Heeled Jack jumped, he disturbed what was supposed to happen, but that didn't mean the original events or

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)I always have to tread lightly when it comes to reviewing novels written in the steampunk style; because this is a genre I'm a real sucker for, which means that I will give even subpar books in this genre a higher score than a lot of people feel they deserve, simply because I enjoy wallowing in the

Hands down, not only does this series have the best cover art I've seen in decades, each book introduces actual people from Victorian England and throws them into an alternate setting. Ingenious is an understatement. I doubt Swinburne and Burton were as interesting in real life though. A witty blend of steam punk, history, and fantasy, Hodder sets a great tale with plenty of twists, blistering paced action, and makes you think just a little more about what might have happened when...

I liked the first one better. I am not sure why. There is some lovely imaginative work here though