Böcker av Grant Allen

"Quasi-supernaturalism creeps into a few of [Grant's] novels, especially Kalee's Shrine (1886)...about the Thuggee cult and Mesmerism." -- Encyclopedia of Fantasy

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Sir Charles Vandrift, ruthless South African diamond mogul, meets his match in Colonel Clay. Masquerading as a Mexican Seer, Clay, with little more than a few parlour conjurings, makes away with five thousand pounds of Vandrift's fortune. And Clay's not finished, he'll swindle Vandrift to his last pound. After all, how can Vandrift fight a master of disguise, a hawk who can be anyone and anywhere'.

Steampunk Six Pack is a retro-futurist's delight, a menagerie of human horses, rocket-ships to the moon, time machines and even the Internet. It's all here, in six classic steampunks from 1726-1900: Gulliver's Travels Part IV, The Unparalleled Adventures Of One Hans Pfaall, From the Earth to the Moon, In The Year 2889 and The British Barbarians. From 'The London Times' of 1904