Lord Kelvin's Machine

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 Science fiction novel, Steampunk
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date
1992
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages vii, 262 pp
ISBN 0-87054-163-3
OCLC 23693399
813/.54 20
LC Class 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. 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.

Plot summary

In Victorian London, Alice, the wife of scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives, is murdered by his 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.

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