**Enter a world of wonder, intrigue, and adventure ...** London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's beloved has been murdered by Jack the Ripper. Claire Haggerty longs to escape the constraints of Victorian society. For both, time is the problem: to escape it, to change it, might offer them the hope they ne
The Map of Time
β Scribed by Felix J. Palma
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
- Year
- 2008;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 336 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1921844752
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β¦ Synopsis
Review
βStrange and wonderful. Magical and smart. FΓlix J. Palma has done more than written a wonderful novel, heβs concocted a supernatural tour de force. Time travel, tragic love, murder and mystery all combine in what is nothing short of a surprising, satisfying and mesmerizing read.β β M.J. Rose, International Bestseller
"_The Map of Time_ recalls the science fiction of Wells and Verne, and then turns the early masters on their heads. A brilliant and breathtaking trip through metafictional time." --Scott Westerfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Leviathan
"Palma makes his U.S. debut with the brilliant first in a trilogy, an intriguing thriller that explores the ramifications of time travel in three intersecting narratives." -- starred Publishers Weekly review
"Readers who embark on the journey...will be richly rewarded. --starred Booklist review
"Lyrical storytelling and a rich attention to detail make this prize-winning novel an enthralling read." --starred Library Journal Review
β_The Map of Time _is a singularly inventive, luscious story with a core of pure, unsettling weirdness. With unnerving grace and disturbing fantasy, it effortlessly straddles that impossible line between being decidedly familiar, and yet absolutely new.β --Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker
"Lyrical storytelling and a rich attention to detail make this prize-winning novel an enthralling read. " -- STARRED LIBRARY JOURNAL REVIEW
"The Map of Time is a singularly inventive, luscious story with a core of pure, unsettling weirdness.
With unnerving grace and disturbing fantasy, it effortlessly straddles that impossible line between
being decidedly familiar, and yet absolutely new." --Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker
Product Description
THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSet in Victorian London with char-acters real and imagined, The Map of Time is a page-turner that boasts a triple play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence. What happens if we change history? FΓ©lix J. Palma explores this question in The Map of Time, weaving a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is excitingβa story full of love and adventure that transports readers to a haunting setting in Victorian London for their own taste of time travel.
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