Plongez dans une Angleterre victorienne alternative, où la découverte de l'éther, une substance magique énergétique, alimente une révolution industrielle, transformant Londres en une cité de merveilles et d'ombres. Cette série explore le côté sombre du progrès, où magie et technologie s'entremêlent, mais l'extraction de l'éther entraîne de terrifiantes transformations et des troubles sociaux. Suivez les protagonistes alors qu'ils dévoilent les secrets de ce pouvoir et luttent pour la liberté à une époque pleine de dangers et de fantaisie. C'est un récit captivant de courage, de mystère et de lutte contre une force obscure.
World Fantasy award-winner Ian MacLeod creates an England that is recognisable yet entirely different in this novel of an Industrial Revolution fuelled by magic. He tells the story of an age through the eyes of one man and those he comes into contact with, and of things and people strange and wonderful.
The acclaimed sequel to The Light Ages , Ian MacLeod’s masterful steampunk fantasy returns readers to a magical-industrial alternate England, where a matriarch’s lust for power threatens to unleash bloody chaos In this new age of industry, guilds reign supreme, their power dependent upon aether ,a magical substance mined from the ground. Greatgrandmistress Alice Meynell rules over the Great Guild of Telegraphers with unmatched grace and ruthlessness. Yet even she is powerless to halt the disease that is destroying her son, Ralph. In desperation she looks to Einfell—a land untouched by aether’s ravages and to which England’s changelings have all been banished—and begs for help. Her wish is granted. Miraculously cured, Ralph finds a new life far away from the industrial clamor of London, and is made whole by the love of Marion Price, a fisherman’s daughter. But the Greatgrandmistress will use every power at her disposal to thwart the couple’s ambitions and love, even if it means plunging all of England into conflict.