Description: "Resembling the works of Tolstoy and Dickens in the plethora of characters, Stoker and Mary Shelley in the exposition, the novel brings together intrigue, adventure, politics, and magic in a complex epic that astonishes the reader." -- Library Journal on Freedom and Necessity "Complex and masterly . . . A skilful act of ventriloquism, faithfully reproducing the argot of the early Victorian upper classes with only a few lapses, and plausibily weaving the plot into the politics at the time. Imaginative and finely written." -- Interzone on Freedom and Necessity "Expertly styled after a 19th-century English epistolary novel . . . Engaging characters and surprises that, for all their thrills, stem quite naturally from the groundwork that the authors have so cleverly laid." -- Publishers Weekly on Freedom and Necessity "One of the most impressive novels I've read in a long time." -- Locus on Freedom and Necessity "Brilliantly written as an epistolary novel, rich with historical detail, enlivened by fully drawn characters, this is one of the most unusual and certainly one of the best fantasy novels of the year." -- Science Fiction Chronicle on Freedom and Necessity ch with historical detail, enlivened by fully drawn characters, this is one of the most unusual and certainly one of the best fantasy novels of the year." -- Science Fiction Chronicle on Freedom and Necessity ch with historical detail, enlivened by fully drawn characters, this is one of the most unusual and certainly one of the best fantasy novels of the year." -- Science Fiction Chronicle on Freedom and Necessity ch with historical detail, enlivened by fully drawn characters, this is one of the most unusual and certainly one of the best fantasy novels of the year." -- Science Fiction Chronicle on Freedom and Necessity

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