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A combination of thriller, historical novel and novel of ideas, which portrays the Italian Renaissance as it might have been if Leonardo had been employed as an engineer rather than an artist. The author wrote "Eternal Light" and won the Philip K. Dick Award for "Four Hundred Billion Stars".
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In his fifth SF novel, the versatile Paul McAuley turns from outer space to alternate history and a 16th-century Florence where many of the strange, wonderful devices sketched in the notebooks of the "Great Engineer", Leonardo da Vinci, have been built and made to work. The skies of Italy are darkened with sulphurous smog from Industrial Revolution factories, crude engines throb loudly everywhere, and steam-powered automobiles chug along the streets. Young artist Pasquale--threatened like other painters by Leonardo's latest invention of photography-- finds himself working hand in glove with cynical journalist Niccolo Machiavegli on the investigation of a locked-room murder which is one small symptom of the corruption at the heart of this transformed Florence. Michelangelo, Raphael, Aretino, Copernicus and other historical notables are entangled in events, while ancient Leonardo's now ageing toy-boy Salai plays a sinister part. War with Spain looms, and one particular creation of the Engineer must be kept out of enemy hands. This rearranged history is plausibly and cleverly developed, climaxing with a set-piece assault on the mansion of a supposed magician, using some eccentric state-of-the-art war machines. But Pasquale's art is more important to him than any technology, and McAuley persuades us to sympathize with his private goals. A satisfying read. --David Langford
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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0575059176
- ISBN 13 9780575059177
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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Book Description Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Jim Burns (illustrator). 1995 Edition. © 1994: A stand-alone novel by Paul J McAuley. 1st printing of 1995 edition:- Synopsis: Florence, 1518. Da Vinci's astonishing machines work, and the Industrial Revolution has happened centuries early. When Pasquale, a young painter, teams up with the hard-drinking journalist Machiavegli to investigate a murder in a locked tower room, they stumble into a conspiracy of politics, necromancy and assassination - and as they pursue the case through Florence's acetylene-lit streets the only certainty is that they could be next on the hit list:- Review(s): "The merest nudge of Da Vinci's elbow, and everything flows with a delicious and lucid inevitability: photography, firearms, Chaos maths, Copernican particle physics and steam-truck chases through the streets of Florence. You look up, when you finish 'Pasquale's Angel' and wonder what reality is still doing in place" - Colin Greenland / "With this book, Paul McAuley proves he's an artist of uncommon depth and range" - Pat Cardigan / "A brilliantly sustained and controlled flight of imagination written with a fluency and vividness I'd kill for. A real treat, and a major novel from a writer whose prose is a delight to read" - Ramsey Campbell:- (original cost £5.99). Seller Inventory # 11.001.00157
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