The bullet-catcher's daughter : being volume one of the fall of the gas-lit empire / Rod Duncan.
Material type: TextSeries: Fall of the gas-lit empire ; 1Publisher: Nottingham ; New York : Angry Robot, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 373 p. ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0857665308 (pbk.)
- 9780857665300 (pbk.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Duncan Rod | Available | 33111007672245 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Finalist for the 2014 Phillip K. Dick Award
Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life - as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus.
But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better...
File Under : Fantasy
"Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life--as herself and as her brother, a private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus. But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better...."--from cover, p. [4].