Series
Langdon St. Ives
James P. Blaylock · 7 novels · 4 novellas · 2 novelettes · 3 short stories · 1978–2020
James P. Blaylock's Langdon St. Ives novels are a loose steampunk series that includes The Digging Leviathan, Homunculus, and Lord Kelvin's Machine, following the Victorian scientist-adventurer St. Ives against eccentric rivals and strange inventions. The series has continued across eleven books and story collections into the 2020s.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Langdon St. Ives at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s4
- 1990s1
- 2000s2
- 2010s7
- 2020s1
Shape
7 novels · 4 novellas · 2 novelettes · 3 short stories
1 author
reads like:steampunkexpeditionsbritish isles19th centuryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 93% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book14 of 16 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Beneath Londondarkest · calmest
- The Affair of the Chalk Cliffsbrightest
- Lord Kelvin's Machinemost intense