Simon Bucher-Jones

Resurrection Engines is an anthology of Steampunk and Alternate Timeline 'retellings' and 'reimagining's' of classic fiction tales (Edgar Allen Poe, Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythology, Moby Dick, Charles Dickens, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, etc) from some of today's finest Steampunk writers.

Sydney Westerfield has taken up her post as Governess, at Mount Morven House - a research establishment in Caithness where a vital secret experiment is underway. She is to tutor Kitty, the daughter of Herbert Linley and his wife Catherine, while they and Herbert's brother Professor Randal work on the Linley Process - a means of converting normal matter to the 'dark-matter' antigravity material that has taken humanity to the planets. But unknown to Sydney, the core of their machine is one of the cursed gems, whose history is so entangled in hers - and the hand of Valdavor Va - the Evil Genius Of Venus - is stretching out to grasp it

Paperback edition of Charles Dicken's Martian Notes (1842) - its a travelogue, an alt-history, an sf novel, a satire, a mash-up, a prequel to The War Of The Worlds, and contains - monsters, vampires, criminals, spies, clockwork automata, and Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens' account of his trip to Mars in 1842. Including never before published material declassified by the Circumlocution Office. Note this edition is a facsimile of the 1914 edition and has small print, a popular softback edition will be issued shortly. An Alt History, a Planetary Romance, a Travelogue.