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The Affinity Bridge (Newbury & Hobbes Investigation, Book 1)
Written by George Mann
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Average Score:
67(8)
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. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen, and journalists.
But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side.
Queen Victoria is kept alive by a primitive life-support system, while her agents, Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes, do battle with enemies of the crown, physical and supernatural. This time Newbury and Hobbes are called to investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot, while attempting to solve a string of strangulations attributed to a mysterious glowing policeman, and dealing with a zombie plague that is ravaging the slums of the capital.
Get ready to follow dazzling young writer George Mann to a London unlike any you’ve ever seen and into an adventure you will never forget.. |
Book Details
Fantasy
Hardcover,
336 Pages
Published
by Tor Books on July 07, 2009
ISBN-10 0765323206
ISBN-13 978-0765323200
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Reviews
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SF Signal
| John DeNardo
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Review Rating: 90
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[...] Mann has written a thoroughly engaging story that's just plain fun to read - one that I heartily recommend to both Sherlock Holmes fans and steampunk fans, or any reader who would like to experience either.
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Boomtron
| Professor Crazy
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Review Rating: 80
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Suffice it to say, if you enjoy reading Sherlock Holmes tales, and dig steampunk, it's (here it comes--get ready for it--) elementary that you'll love reading The Affinity Bridge by George Mann.
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Neth Space
| Neth
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Review Rating: 70
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...the good outweighed the bad by a large enough margin for me to recommend this piece of the latest steampunk invasion.
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Boomtron
| amberdrake
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Review Rating: 60
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All in all, I found it to be an agreeably curious mystery, full of interesting characters that I might like to follow around for a while.
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SF Reviews
| Thomas M. Wagner
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Review Rating: 60
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The Affinity Bridge is a charming diversion, though the way Mann borrows so many ideas so liberally from those who've come before him has the unfortunate effect of robbing the tale of the freshness that might have made it something extrasuper special.
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SFRevu
| Mel Jacob
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Review Rating: 60
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A fast and furious climax carries the reader through the solution to the mystery, but appears somewhat over-choreographed.
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SFRevu
| John Berlyne
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Review Rating: 60
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The Affinity Bridge is therefore a competent steampunk tale, but it does not have the makings of a classic.
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Strange Horizons
| Hannah Strom-Martin
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Review Rating: 60
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Mann may trip on the action, but his world-building and attention to character inspires confidence.
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