false <![CDATA[The Explosionist]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209339063m/2157324.jpg 2157324 1 The Explosionist (formerly known as Dynamite No. 1) is the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s Edinburgh. There, the legacy of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at Waterloo is a standoff between a totalitarian Federation of European States and a group of independent northern countries called the New Hanseatic League. This world is preoccupied with technology (everything from electric cookers to high explosives) but also with spiritualism, a movement our world largely abandoned in the early 20th Century; Sigmund Freud is a radio talk-show crank, cars run on hydrogen and the most prominent scientists experiment with new ways of contacting the dead. The author teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. 2162834 1 7 2008 The Explosionist total:144|5:21|4:48|3:47|2:23|1:5| 144 489 371 75 5 3 false false Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 08:04:22 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 08:11:33 -0800 2008 in our time line because of a divergence in 1815 when Wellington was defeated at Waterloo. Scotland is independent of England and all...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 22:06:39 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 22:17:41 -0800 2008 The Explosionist and I don't see how Jenny Davidson is going to finish the story in so few pages. I'm really liking this and am hoping it doesn't end with a cliffhanger, forcing me to wait for a sequel in order to satisfy my curiousity.

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The setting is Scotland in the 1930s. Only this IS NOT our version of history.

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The story moves along at a reasona...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 22 09:16:57 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 09:26:34 -0700 2009
Don't get me wrong...it i...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Feb 14 08:38:38 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 08:48:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 10:04:03 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 23:56:52 -0800 2009 Set in 1938, this is a story of how Sophie Hunter navigates through this world to help solve two murd...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 17:11:21 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 10:43:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2157324