The Strange Affair of Spring Healed Jack

'''Hodder, Mark. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack'''. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2010. Reviewed by Patrick Casey. SFRA Review #295 (Winter 2011): 14-15, our source for this entry.

Steampunk novel: "Like most steampunk, Spring Heeled Jack is set in an alternative Victorian London. Here steam powered velocipedes share London’s polluted streets with bio-engineered animals, while in the pubs and academic halls a great debate about the future of society is quick- ly coming to a boil. On one side are the Technologists, engineers and eugenicists pushing for material progess and a more efficient society. On the other side are the Libertines, artists and authors who believe that 'art, beauty, and nobility of spirit [are] more essential than material progress' (41)." (Casey, p. 14).

The Wikipedia entry lists "Technologies" from time-travel to "mechanical horse-drawn carriages."

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