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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Return of the Discontinued Man
Mark Hodder · 367 pages
The Forever Man
Eoin Colfer · 339 pages
Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, who has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, and Chevie, the seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick, face the return of Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and must destroy him once and for all.
Morlock Night
K.W. Jeter · 332 pages
An unwitting participant in the mission to restore Excalibur to its rightful owner who comes awake only when England needs to be rescued, the narrator of this dark farcical romp is enlisted by Merlin to try to save the world. Written as a sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, K.W. Jeter created a science fiction tale employing alternate history and clockwork devices in a Victorian London settin
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis · 496 pages
Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's [Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)][1]. [Robert A. Heinlein][2] mentioned the earlier work in [Have Spacesuit will Travel][3] as Kip's father's favorite. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1793164W/Three_Men_in_a_Boat_(to_say_nothing_of_the_dog) [2]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL28641A/Robert_A._He
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley · 384 pages
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible -- for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and mo
To Visit the Queen
Diane Duane · 369 pages
The cat heroes of The Book of Night with Moon are called out of our time and into the year 1874 to help prevent an assassination plot against Queen Victoria in this delightful sequel to the national fantasy bestseller. Rhiow, head of the feline team that saved New York City in the first book, returns along with her partners Urruah and Arhu, called upon to use their wizardly powers to avert disaste
A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time
Mary Pope Osborne · 135 pages
Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol."
The Door That Led to Where
Sally Gardner · 276 pages
When the present offers no hope for the future, the answers may lie in the past. AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when he is offered a junior position at a London law firm he hopes his life is about to change - but he could never have imagined by how much. Tidying up the archive one day, AJ finds an old key, mysteriously labelled with h
The Wolves of London
Mark Morris · 347 pages
"Psychology professor Alex Locke is an ex-convict, forced back into the criminal underworld when his daughter is threatened. After he agrees to steal a mysterious Obsidian Heart, Locke is pursued by unearthly assassins known as the 'Wolves of London'. Soon he discovers the heart can enable him to travel through time, and while it bestows him with his own dark powers, it also corrupts"--Amazon.com,
The Diamond Conspiracy
Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine · 368 pages
The Constantine Affliction
T. Aaron Payton, Tim Pratt · 288 pages
"The Constantine Affliction--a strange malady that kills some of its victims and physically transforms others into the opposite sex--has spread scandal and upheaval throughout society. Scientific marvels and disasters, such as clockwork courtesans, the alchemical fires of Whitechapel, electric carriages, and acidic monsters lurking in the Thames, have forever altered the face of the city. Pembroke
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)
H G Wells · 84 pages
For more than one hundred years H. G. Wells' classic science fiction tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power that continues to be relevant today. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Illustrated Classics)
H. G. H. G. Wells · 88 pages
For more than one hundred years H. G. Wells' classic science fiction tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power that continues to be relevant today. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater
The Lazarus Machine
Paul Crilley
In an alternate 1899 London, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Tweed searches for his kidnapped father, uncovering both a horrific technological secret and a political conspiracy that could destroy the British Empire.
Homunculus
James P. Blaylock · 280 pages
In 1870s London, a city of contradictions and improbabilities, a dead man pilots an airship and living men are willing to risk all to steal a carp. Here, a night of bangers and ale at the local pub can result in an eternity at the Blood Pudding with the rest of the reanimated dead.