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Swiftly
A Science Fiction Novel by Adam Roberts
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Alternate History,
- 19th Century,
- Adventure
This book is for you if you're into...
- Victorian adventures with Lilliputians and Brobdingnagian giants
- Alternate history where miniature engineering changes everything
- Science fiction that plays with scale and humanity's place in the universe
It is 1848 and the British Empire has grown rich exploiting Lilliputian slaves - the finesse of their working allowing unheard of feats of minature engineering; even Babbage's computing device has been made to work. But now the French have formed a regiment of previously peaceful Brobdingnagian giants and invasion looms.
In a world where humanity is both smaller and larger than it once was, love and hate loom large. Mankind discovers itself at the centre of scale.
Lilliputians are twelve times smaller than us but there are those twelve times smaller than them, and twelve times smaller again and so on. And the scale of being goes up from Swift's giants also.
Adam Roberts has written both a rip roaring 19th century adventure, a love story and a thought-provoking pre-atomic SF novel about our place in the universe.
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