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Lord Kelvin's machine / James P. Blaylock

Scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives and his servant Hasbro travel through Victorian England and across time to thwart the schemes of Dr Ignacio Narbondo. This adventure to save the Earth involves a celestial threat and the reanimation of the dead.
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