Frankenstein's Legions

Frankenstein's Legions
Authors
Whitbourn, John
Publisher
Fabled Lands Llp
Tags
science fiction , fantasy
ISBN
9781478341543
Date
2011-08-20T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.43 MB
Lang
en
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Baron Frankenstein fashioned just one creature from the remnants of the dead,

but the Governments who have hijacked his discoveries see the advantage of

resurrection on an industrial scale. What better way to fight their never-

ending wars than with armies of obedient undead soldiers, recycled from

earlier battles? And how better to silence their own citizens who protest at

ceaseless conflict and plundered graveyards?

Set in the 1830s, Frankenstein’s Legions details an alternative history in

which Frankensteinian science is a reality, revived after patchy prohibition

by a second and even more fanatical French Revolution. The republican regime,

inspired by zeal and desperation, has swept over Europe, employing

inexhaustible swarms of zombie-like (or Lazaroid) troops. The remaining

independent nations, including England, are obliged to shed their scruples and

likewise raise Lazaroid armies.

Across this crazed and Gothic history stride Julius Frankenstein, soldier

nephew of the notorious scientist; Charles Babbage inventor of the proto-

computer Difference Engine; and the Honourable Augusta Ada, Countess of

Lovelace, genius daughter of Lord Byron. Pulling their strings – they believe

– are the puppetmasters Talleyrand, French statesman par excellence and now a

renegade in English employ; and Sir Percy Blakeney, sometime Scarlet Pimpernel

and current head of the British Secret Service.

Meanwhile, the French have been unwise enough to revive their recently

deceased Emperor. The intention was simply to pick the brain of history’s

foremost military mind. However, the risen Emperor Napoleon is developing

fresh ambitions of his own…