Title: Victorian Cyberpunk?
Product review: A very good book if you are interested in the late Victorian origins of science fiction. Also for those interested in the mini-genre known as 'steampunk'. This is a story about terrorism, technology, and anarchy written over a hundred years ago. On the surface it seems very similar to much of Verne's work, (Hartmann the Anarchist is a madman who builds a huge airship which he uses to bomb major cities all over europe) but the book goes much deeper into the political motivations of the character, and contains an intersting dialogue between the underground socialist and anarchist movements in the 1890's. I'm sure it was a radical novel at the time, but went largely unnoticed.
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