A man without faith. A woman without hope. My name is Aiden Fleischer. I was forced from my home, moved among the victims of Jack the Ripper, was tortured by a witch doctor, and awoke on another planet. Throughout it all, my assistant, Clarissa Stark, remained at my side. On Ptallaya, we were welcom[...]

A man without faith. A woman without hope. My name is Aiden Fleischer, and today my assistant and I awoke on another planet. On Ptallaya, we are welcomed by the Yatsill. The creatures transform their society into a bizarre version of our own, and we find a new home beneath the world's twin suns. But[...]

Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne return in a new series of wildly imaginative steampunk adventures.
SPRING HEELED JACK IS JUMPING BACK
It's 9 p.m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the British Empire's most brilliant scientist, performs an experiment.[...]

Mark Hodder won the 2011 Philip K Dick Award for Science Fiction with the first in the Burton and Swinburne trilogy. Blends the eccentricities of the steampunk genre with serious questions about human morals and ethics. See previous titles The Clockwork Man of Trafalgar Square and TheStrange Affair [...]