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Overview
1862: Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces.
Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy.
"Sir Richard Francis Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne's investigation into a theft of black diamonds, ultimately embroiling them in the affairs of a dubious claimant, supposedly the heir of a cursed estate...is deliciously entertaining." -- Steampunk Scholar
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- ISBN-13: 9781906727994
- ISBN-10: 1906727996
- Publisher: Snowbooks
- Publish Date: November 2020
- Dimensions: 7.81 x 5.06 x 1.03 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.99 pounds
- Page Count: 464
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