image of person or book cover 8161142108717990664.jpg
Image courtesy of publisher's website.
y separately published work icon Spring in Geneva single work   novella   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Spring in Geneva
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Mary Shelley, a young banker's son, and William, an excessively tall man with a ''lividly hued visage, watery eyes, and blackened lips within a straggling beard,'' pit their wits and derring-do against Lord Byron, master of steampunk technology, and his thuggish minions.

''...my beloved Percy's ardor bore him to lengths I could not go. There were plans, between him and Byron, that I could not condone. I nerved myself to protest: you may conceive how difficult, against such visions, such intellects. When protest failed, I forced myself to act.''She took her hand quickly from my arm and drew out a handkerchief. I paced beside her, managing not to exceed my position as mere listener, until she recovered herself. ''Then I was forced to depart, in haste, and to choose between discovery, outcry, wrath perhaps, retribution and my child.''

–from Spring in Geneva '

Source : Publisher's Blurb

Exhibitions

10702549
10692851

Notes

  • Steampunk Note: This story is notable for its usage of real historical figures who are often closely associated with steampunk iconography - specifically Mary Shelley and Lord Byron - and their re-imagining within a steampunk setting.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Seattle, Washington (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Aqueduct Press ,
      2013 .
      image of person or book cover 8161142108717990664.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 94p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 25 October 2013
      ISBN: 1619760444, 978-1619760448
Last amended 30 Jan 2017 11:34:54
Settings:
  • Geneva,
    c
    Switzerland,
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1818
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X