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Also by James P. Blaylock
The Elfin Series
The Elfin Ship
The Disappearing Dwarf
The Stone Giant
Langdon St Ives
Homunculus*
Lord Kelvin’s Machine*
Other Novels
The Digging Leviathan
Land Of Dreams
The Last Coin
The Magic Spectacles
Night Relics
All The Bells On Earth
Winter Tides
The Rainy Season
Knights Of The Cornerstone
Collections
Thirteen Phantasms
In For A Penny
Metamorphosis
Dedication
To
viki
and this time,
Tom and Venta Streff
Here’s to friendship, food, philosophy, and the future
and to the memory of
Roy Squires
James P. Blaylock (1950 - )
James Paul Blaylock was born in Long Beach, California, in 1950, and attended California State University, where he received an MA. He was befriended and mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with his contemporaries K.W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded – along with Powers and Jeter – as one of the founding fathers of the steampunk movement. Winner of two World Fantasy Awards and a Philip K. Dick Award, he is currently director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County High School of the Arts, where Tim Powers is Writer in Residence.
Copyright
A Gollancz eBook
Copyright © James P. Blaylock 1991
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This eBook first published in Great Britain in 2011 by
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ISBN 978 0 575 11762 4
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