title: The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (A Burton & Swinburne Adventure)
author:  Mark Hodder 
description: Praise for the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Burton &amp; Swinburne books:<br /><br />"The usual superlatives for really clever fantasy (imaginative, mind-bending, phantasmagorical) aren't nearly big enough for this debut novel. With this one book, Hodder has put himself on the genre map."<br />-Booklist, starred review of The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack<br /><br />"Hodder, with an encyclopedic grasp of period detail, tellingly brings these disparate, oddly familiar yet eerily different worlds to fecund life. Enthralling, dizzying, and as impressive as they come."<br />-Kirkus Reviews, starred review<br /><br />"Every once in a while I come across a book, or series of books, that totally yanks the carpet out from under me. Then it reaches out, smashes me in the face with its awesomeness, and says, 'You love me!' Leaving me with naught to do but obligingly respond, 'Yes. Yes I do.' [The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man] was every bit the book that I had hoped it would be."<br />-Elitist Book Reviews<br /><br />"Whatever one chooses to call [The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack], it would be very difficult to deny its overwhelming brilliance. I can't remember the last time a novel has surprised, awed, and enthused me so utterly that I'm almost left at a loss for words for how to recommend it."<br />-Rob Will Review
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  "This is an exhilarating romp through a witty combination of nineteenth-
  century English fact and fiction. Mark Hodder definitely knows his stuff and
  has given us steam opera at its finest. In this first novel, he shows himself
  to be as clever and inventive a writer as those who enliven his pages. We
  follow English explorer and eroticist (and king's agent) Sir Richard Francis
  Burton, poet and Sadean Algernon Charles Swinburne, and a cast including
  Florence Nightingale, Charles Darwin, Francis Calton, and Isambard Kingdom
  Brunel (rather different to those known to our Victorian ancestors), as well
  as the mysterious albino, Laurence Oliphant, in an adventure involving the
  very nature of time itself in a London filled with steam-horses and
  velocipedes where werewolves prowl the streets and Spring Heeled Jack, star of
  the Penny Dreadfuls, might provide the key to an ever-deepening mystery. A
  great, increasingly complex, plot, some fine characters, and invention that
  never