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Title: Lord Kelvin's Machine Title Record # 40584
Author: James P. Blaylock
Date: 1985-12-15
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Langdon St. Ives
Language: English
Note: Expanded into a novel in 1992.
Synopsis: A steampunk era daring scientist-explorer discovers that a criminal mastermind has contracted with a mad scientist to use a device (invented by Lord Kelvin) to control the flight of an oncoming comet for purposes of global extortion, and endeavors to defeat the dastardly plotters.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1985 1985-12-15 ed. Shawna McCarthy Davis Publications  
$2.00?$: US dollar
196
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag J. K. Potter Checkmark
Steampunk 2008-05-00 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Tachyon Publications 978-1-892391-75-9
$14.95?$: US dollar
x+
373
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Insect Lab Checkmark
Subterranean Online, Summer 2009 2009-08-00 ed. William Schafer Subterranean Press  
$0?$: US dollar
 
webzine?Used for Internet-based periodical publications which are otherwise not downloadable as an "ebook".
mag Checkmark
Steampunk date unknown ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Tachyon Publications 978-1-892391-75-9
$14.95?$: US dollar
x+
373
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Insect Lab Checkmark
Steampunk date unknown ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Tachyon Publications 978-1-892391-75-9
$14.95?$: US dollar
x+
373
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Insect Lab Checkmark
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