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Original Title:	The Affinity Bridge
ISBN:	190500589X (ISBN13: 9781905005895)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Newbury and Hobbes #1
Characters:	Veronica Hobbes, Sir Maurice Newbury, Sir Charles Bainbridge
Setting:	London, England,1901(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Sidewise Award Nominee for Alternate History (2008)

The Affinity Bridge (Newbury and Hobbes #1) Hardcover | Pages: 350 pages

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Title	:	The Affinity Bridge (Newbury and Hobbes #1)
Author	:	George Mann
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 350 pages
Published	:	2008 by Snowbooks
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Science Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Steampunk. Alternate History

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Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists.

But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. For this is also a world where ghostly policemen haunt the fog-laden alleyways of Whitechapel, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, works tirelessly to protect the Empire from her foes.

When an airship crashes in mysterious circumstances, Sir Maurice and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is baffled by a spate of grisly murders and a terrifying plague is ravaging the slums of the city.

So begins an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the first in the series of "Newbury & Hobbes" investigations.

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I enjoyed it. I guess reading steampunk is my version of fluffy reading. It has all the usual steampunk elements, likeable main characters, & a few gross (to me) zombie-type scenes. I'm not much of a reader of series books, but I could see myself picking up & enjoying the next book in the series at some point. Relatively entertaining fluff.

This is the first book I have read by George Mann and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The story is set in Victorian London and has all the 'steam punk' elements of airships, land trains and clockwork automatons programmed by punch cards. Victoria is still Queen but is kept alive on a life support machine. Her Empire is looked after by secret agents like Sir Maurice Newbury - Gentleman investigator for the crown. He and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called to investigate the

Good action packed mystery, reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, but set in a steampunk version of the Victorian era. The story is not always very believable, but I had some fun with it. 3,5 stars.

I get it, I get it. Steampunk is "in." Zombies are "in." Speculation about androids is "in." But do we really need to put them all in one book? Mann does nothing but attempt to cater to the masses in this mess of genre-fiction. Bland writing and flat dialogue round out a cast of indistinguishable characters. Even the cheesiest (but still fun) genre series (think Dresden Files, Anita Blake, etc.) at least have characters with some spunk and differentiation--and if you're writing what you're

The Affinity Bridge brainstorming session #19Author enters and finds himself on one of two adjacent stages. The only furnishings on his stage are two chairs. In one of the chairs sits O'Bare, a large, hairy man. Author goes and sits on the free chair.Author: Uh, hello.O'Bare: Hello there! I'm O'Bare.Author: That's a peculiar name.O'Bare: Meh, it's needed for a pun at the end of this sketch.Author: Oh, okay. Why are there two stages here?O'Bare: Well that one over there is Stage Right.Author: And

If this book is Steampunk, then I want to read more of them. Maurice Newbury is a Crown Agent, an investigator of both crimes and the occult for the crown in this delightfully vigorous mystery set in a reworked victorian England full of both elements of science fiction and horror.Revenants (zombie like human creatures, who are victims of a plague from India) are roaming London killing people, but other people are dying by some mysterious means, found strangled. There are odd sightings of a

3 starsIt was ok but left me a little disappointed as it could have been so much more. I picked it up thinking it was an interesting technological take on Sherlock Holmes which was there but for me it was much more akin to James Bond. I loved the idea but it just didn't quite reach those lofty heights.The world building was ok but could have been a but more expressive. It's a short book I know but still could have drawn the reader in more. I did enjoy the steampunk tech elements even if some