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
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…