← Back

Lord Kelvin's Machine

James P. Blaylock

First published December 1985
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Narbondo / St. Ives Universe › Langdon St. Ives

A steampunk era daring scientist-explorer discovers that a criminal mastermind has contracted with a mad scientist to use a device (invented by Lord Kelvin) to control the flight of an oncoming comet for purposes of global extortion, and endeavors to defeat the dastardly plotters.

Expanded into a novel in 1992.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1985 Cover Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1985 Davis Publications MAGAZINE 92
May 2008 Cover Steampunk Tachyon Publications Anthology 17
August 2009 Cover Subterranean Online, Summer 2009 Subterranean Press MAGAZINE 2