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Mark Hodder

    28 novembre 1962

    Cet écrivain britannique, basé à Valence en Espagne, se consacre à la science-fiction. Après une pause de trois ans dans son écriture due à la naissance de jumeaux, son rythme de travail est revenu à la normale et un nouveau roman est en cours de finalisation. Son œuvre se caractérise par une immersion profonde dans le genre, se concentrant sur des séries étendues et ambitieuses. Les lecteurs intéressés par son processus créatif et du contenu exclusif peuvent en trouver davantage via sa page Patreon.

    Mark Hodder
    Burton and Swinburne in the Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
    Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon
    The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man
    The Return of the Discontinued Man
    The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi
    The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats
    • Burton and Swinburne return for their final thrilling adventure! Sir Richard Francis Burtonâe(tm)s expedition has returned from the future, bringing with it knowledge of technologies which must remain secret for history to follow its natural course. Betrayed by one of their own, Burton and Swinburne watch in horror as the Empireâe(tm)s elite use this knowledge to secure their positions for all eternity, branding any who oppose them as enemies of the State. Can their band of hunted revolutionaries overthrow the ultimate automated autocrat âe" their King?

      The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats
    • The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi

      • 560pages
      • 20 heures de lecture
      4,0(35)Évaluer

      The Beast has been summoned. History will be unmade. Freshly knighted by King George V for discovering the source of the Nile, Sir Richard Francis Burton has been made an agent of the Crown. His mission: solve a series of high profile disappearances and âe" even more astonishing âe" locate the spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu el Yezdi. Burton and Swinburne are back and fighting for their very existence...

      The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi
    • Burton and Swinburne return in a new wildly imaginative steampunk adventure, and this time they're facing their greatest foe... Leicester Square, London. Blood red snow falls from the sky and a strange creature, disorientated and apparently insane, materialises out of thin air. Spring Heeled Jack has returned, and he is intent on one thing- hunting Sir Richard Francis Burton. Burton is experiencing one hallucination after another; visions of parallel realities and future history plague his every thought. These send him, and his companions, on an unimaginable expedition - a voyage through time itself...

      The Return of the Discontinued Man
    • When Burton and Swinburne discover an abandoned brass man in Trafalgar Square, they find themselves on the trail of stolen black diamonds and embroiled in a plot involving the Tichborne Claimant and mysterious steam wraiths.

      The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man
    • It is 1870, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy. Accompanied by the diminutive and pain-loving poet, Algernon Swinburne, Burton's latest mission in his role as King's Spy finds them dispatched to that most exotic and perilous of destinations: Africa.

      Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon
    • It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy. Returning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Nile, explorer, linguist, scholar and swordsman Sir Richard Francis Burton finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, employs him as 'King's Spy'. His first mission: to investigate the sexual assaults committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack; to find out why chimney sweeps are being kidnapped by half-man, half-dog creatures; and to discover the whereabouts of his badly injured former friend, John Hanning Speke. Accompanied by the diminutive and pain-loving poet, Algernon Swinburne, Burton's investigations lead him back to one of the defining events of the age: the brutal assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840; and the terrifying possibility that the world he inhabits shouldn't exist at all.

      Burton and Swinburne in the Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
    • A Dark and Subtle Light

      Machiavelli The Immortal: Book One

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      In a gripping alternate history, Niccolò Machiavelli is selected by a rival force to confront a malevolent alien intelligence threatening Earth. The narrative unfolds as he battles the enemy's agents throughout various periods in history, blending elements of political intrigue with science fiction. This unique premise explores the intersection of historical figures and extraterrestrial conflict, offering a fresh take on Machiavelli's strategic prowess in a cosmic struggle for humanity's survival.

      A Dark and Subtle Light
    • A Red Sun Also Rises

      • 520pages
      • 19 heures de lecture

      When Reverend Aiden Fleischer, vicar of the sleepy town of Theaston Vale, finds a hunchbacked, light-sensitive and crippled vagabond named Clarissa Stark begging at his door, little does he suspect it's the start of an adventure that's literally out of this world! Bribed by an unscrupulous family, Fleischer and his companion flee to London's missionary college, but in wicked Whitechapel, the faithless priest stumbles upon one of Jack the Ripper's victims and becomes convinced that he himself is the notorious killer. With her friend's mind shattered, Miss Stark is relieved when they are both posted to the far away Melanesian island of Koluwai, but here they encounter an even darker evil, one that transports them to another planet. Beneath the twin suns of the planet Ptallaya, Fleischer and Stark encounter an alien species, the Yatsill, master mimics who, after gaining access to Miss Stark's mind, create their own bizarre version of Victorian London. But Fleischer and Stark's new home from home is not safe, for the Blood Gods will soon invade, and if he is to defeat them and rescue the woman he's come to love, Fleischer must first face his own inner demons!

      A Red Sun Also Rises
    • Renowned Detective Sexton Blake tackles his most perplexing case to date, a locked-room murder mystery with a crime scene a thousand feet below the Caribbean ocean!

      Sexton Blake: Caribbean Crisis & Voodoo Island