George Mann, Author . Tor $24.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2320-0
SF editor Mann (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction
) sets this leisurely mystery, published in the U.K. by Snowbooks in 2008, in an alternate 1901 London where steam-powered taxicabs fill the streets and brass automatons have begun to replace...
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George Mann, Author . Pyr $16 (237p) ISBN 978-1-61614-194-3
Mann (The Affinity Bridge
) combines the trendy superhero and steampunk genres, but his cardboard characters and laughable dialogue (“I had never loved, until I loved you”) never attain even the level of parody. In an alternate 1927...
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George Mann, Tor, $24.99 paper (336p) ISBN 9780765323217
A steampunk mystery that includes Ottoman automatons, ancient Egyptian artifacts, a malevolent stage magician, and a quest for immortality should prove entertaining, but unfortunately, The Osiris Ritual falls short of its promise. Set in the usual...
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George Mann. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $12.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-781160-02-2
Mann opens more strongly than he closes in his second Holmes novel (after 2013's Sherlock Holmes: The Will of the Dead). In 1915, Watson is feeling the butcher's bill of WWI personally. His nephew, the last of the family line, was killed in France,...
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George Mann. Titan (titanbooks.com), $12.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-781160-01-5
Set in 1889, Mann’s solid steampunk pastiche gives Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson a fantastical mystery to solve. They are consulted by Peter Maugham, whose uncle, Sir Theobald, has just died from a fall down the stairs of his London home. As the...
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Edited by George Mann. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-78329-930-0
Mann (Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes) spotlights supporting characters from the Holmes canon, many of them obscure, in this intriguing anthology. A baker’s dozen of clever short stories give readers a view of Holmes through non-Watsonian eyes.
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George Mann. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-78329-409-1
An ancient pagan legend concerning a murderous mage casts its dark shadow over contemporary events in this sinuous occult thriller. Elspeth Reeves is newly returned to her mother’s house in Wilsby-under-Wychwood following the loss of her job and her
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Edited by George Mann. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-783299-32-4
Mann’s second anthology focusing on supporting figures in the Sherlock Holmes canon surpasses in creativity the successful first volume, 2016’s Associates of Sherlock Holmes. Not only are obscure characters, such as Effie Munro of “The Yellow Face,”
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George Mann. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-783294-18-3
American Gabriel Cross, Mann’s Batman-like hero, finds danger in England in his lackluster fourth outing in this steampunk thriller series set in the early 20th century (after 2016’s Ghosts of Karnak). Gabriel, who poses as a playboy reminiscent of...
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George Mann. Tor, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3409-1
Mann’s fifth early-20th-century supernatural thriller featuring investigators Sir Maurice Newbury and Veronica Hobbes (after 2013’s The Executioner’s Heart) has more clichés than chills: one villain remarks to a helpless prisoner, “If you’re going...
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George Mann, Author, George Mann, Editor, Editor *, Editor Running Press Book Publishers $12.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0887-1
From steampunk to space opera to humanist sci-fi, from Arthur Conan Doyle to The Six Million Dollar Man, and from implants to teleportation, George Mann navigates genre-benders, numerous media, neologisms and common terms, thrills,...
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