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A Calculus of Angels

✍ Scribed by Greg Keyes

Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy;Open Road Integrated Media
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 412 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1504026578

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✦ Synopsis

In an alternate eighteenth-century Europe devastated by alchemical disaster, Sir Isaac Newton and his able assistant, Benjamin Franklin, confront enemies who seek humankind's destruction
Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of philosopher's mercury in 1681 gave rise to a remarkable new branch of alchemical science. Forty years later, the world stands poised on the brink of a new dark age . . .

England is in ruins, crushed by an asteroid called to Earth by the very alchemy Newton unleashed. France is in chaos following the long-delayed death of Louis XIV. Cotton Mather, Blackbeard, and the Choctaw shaman Red Shoes set sail from the American colonies to investigate the silence lying over the Old World. And in Russia, Tsar Peter the Great, now host to the evil entity that kept the Sun King alive, seizes a golden opportunity for conquest as he marches his unstoppable army across a devastated continent.

Meanwhile Newton and his young apprentice, Ben...

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