Lord Kelvin's Machine
Dust-jacket illustration by Jeffrey K. Potter for Lord Kelvin's Machine
Author	James P. Blaylock
Illustrator	Jeffrey K. Potter
Cover artist	Jeffrey K. Potter
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel, Steampunk
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1992
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	vii, 262 pp
ISBN	0-87054-163-3
OCLC Number	23693399
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Classification	PS3552.L3966 L6 1992

Lord Kelvin's Machine is a science fiction novel by author James P. Blaylock. It was released in 1992 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,015 copies. It was the author's first book published by Arkham House. The novel is the third in Blaylock's Steampunk series, following The Digging Leviathan (1984) and Homunculus (1986). A substantially different novelette version first appeared in the Mid-December, 1985 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Reprints 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Plot summary

In Victorian London, Alice, the wife of scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives, is murdered by his arch-nemesis, the hunchback Dr. Ignacio Narbondo. St. Ives and his valet, Hasbro, pursue Narbondo across Norway, contesting Narbondo's plot to destroy the earth and, later, efforts to revivify Narbondo's apparently frozen corpse. In the process St. Ives gains access to a powerful device created by Lord Kelvin, which allows St. Ives to travel through time.

Note that the plot description of this book as described in S. T. Joshi's Sixty Years of Arkham House is wrong.

[edit] Reprints

• New York: Ace, 1992,
• Sutton, UK: Severn House, 1993.
• London: Grafton, 1993.

[edit] See also

• List of steampunk works

[edit] References

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 58. 
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 163. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 137-138. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.