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The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats
A Burton & Swinburne Adventure
Mark Hodder
370 pp • ISBN 978-1-63388-052-8
Trade Paperback • $18.00
August 2015
Sir Richard Francis Burton's expedition has returned from the future, bringing with it knowledge of technologies that must remain secret if history is to proceed as it should. However, when one of his colleagues turns rogue, the secret falls into the hands of the very people most likely to misuse it.
Betrayed, Burton and Swinburne watch in horror as the Empire's elite employ the technology to secure their positions of privilege. When London's parks are transformed into concentration camps, artists and philosophers are declared enemies of the State, and propaganda proliferates, the king's agent finds himself on the wrong side of-the king!
Can Burton and his band of hunted revolutionaries overthrow an apparently indestructible and immortal autocrat…and if so, at what personal cost?
The Spring Heeled Jack saga reaches its explosive conclusion!
From the eBook edition.
Reviews
Praise for The Return of The Discontinued Man:
“There’s more than enough adventure, intrigue, invention, fun and engagement to satisfy everybody.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Hodder puts his knack for tall-tale spinning on full display…in one imaginative and enthralling scenario after another. Hodder’s growing legion of fans won’t be disappointed.”—Booklist
Praise for The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi:
“Serious literary fun as Mark Hodder vaults to the front of the new steampunk writers pack…. Hard to imagine any lover of alternate British empires not being thoroughly amazed and entertained.”
—K. W. JETER, author ofInfernal Devices and Fiendish Schemes
