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The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus (Pax Britannia #1-2)
by
Jonathan Green (Goodreads Author)
Action and Adventure in a New Age of Steam!
Join Ulysses Quicksilver - dandy, adventurer and agent of the crown - as he battles the enemies of the Empire in this collection of rip-roaring steampunk adventures. This action-packed tome brings you three sensational tales...
Unnatural History
Queen Victoria is celebrating the 160th year of her reign, but all is not well at the he...more
Join Ulysses Quicksilver - dandy, adventurer and agent of the crown - as he battles the enemies of the Empire in this collection of rip-roaring steampunk adventures. This action-packed tome brings you three sensational tales...
Unnatural History
Queen Victoria is celebrating the 160th year of her reign, but all is not well at the he...more
Paperback, 734 pages
Published
2010
by Abbadon Books
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This omnibus gives us the first three Pax Britannia novels in one. Which is as well, because they’re rather compulsive reading and it’s very easy to go straight through all three.
Pax Britannia is what would have happened to the world had the Victorians carried on doing their thing, if the Empire had held together, steam technology had carried on and the same attitudes to women, the poor, the earth and the colonies had continued unchecked. As such it’s a rather steampunk sort of scenario.
The plot...more
Pax Britannia is what would have happened to the world had the Victorians carried on doing their thing, if the Empire had held together, steam technology had carried on and the same attitudes to women, the poor, the earth and the colonies had continued unchecked. As such it’s a rather steampunk sort of scenario.
The plot...more
Jan 23, 2012
Stacey
marked it as to-read
I was looking for a 'cracking yarn'. I didn't care if it was corny or not, I just want to be entertained. So far, I'm only a couple of chapters in...will update later.
I blew this book off in favor of something else. I may return to it later. One of the things I find about 'alternate history' or in this case 'steampunk' is that it seems to me that (at least in real life) where technology leads, moral questions follow.
The Quicksilver Omnibus loses me. In a London where the great disparity between...more
I blew this book off in favor of something else. I may return to it later. One of the things I find about 'alternate history' or in this case 'steampunk' is that it seems to me that (at least in real life) where technology leads, moral questions follow.
The Quicksilver Omnibus loses me. In a London where the great disparity between...more
I started this omnibus containing three books a while back (maybe over a year ago). It looked vaguely amusing, a mix of steampunk with a bit of Holmesian (not sure about the Bond influence, it feels more Holmesian to me). The book was entertaining through Act 1 of the first story, then the obvious references to modern day's political issues (i.e., anti-terrorism acts) felt a tad trite.
Since I was also still in the midst of plowing through a few other series that were quite good, I put this book...more
Since I was also still in the midst of plowing through a few other series that were quite good, I put this book...more
Aug 07, 2011
Elana
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The first book, Unnatural History, was awful. Just awful. Hysterically so. Needless to say, I loved it! The subsequent books and shorts stories really picked up and were fun in their own right, as Jonathan Green dropped some cliches and really made Pax Britannia his own.
This was a fun series. The down side to reading an omnibus like this is the completion of one book didn't count towards my total! Ah well. It was an interesting twist on more traditional steam punk novels, drawing from classic novelists like Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells and Jules Verne. The world was an interesting blend of old language and new technology. I did find the lack of social progress a bit frustrating and the repeated use of older literary style tiresome after awhile.
If you want a di...more
If you want a di...more
The plots were ridiculous, but I might have forgiven that if it wasn't for the unbelievable number of spelling mistakes. Seriously, was this edited at all?
May 20, 2013
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