Published Meaning, I think I understood next to nothing for the first thirty pages or so, and it only started to slowly come together after a few chapters (since I tried to re-read the beginning after I had finished, I'll say that the problem did not only lay in my limited capacity to focus: the opening really tosses a huge number of minute details about events and people and things that the readers cn't poFair warning: this book has one of the steepest in media res opening I ever got the chance to read. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations
A blimp piloted by a skeleton stays aloft for years.
Homunculus is a comic science fiction novel by American writer James P. Blaylock.
I read half the novel and still don't know what was going on. Although I never feel like I'm totally "inside" any of the characters, and indeed would be hard-pressed to decided on who is the main protagonist, it's still an enjoyable read because the story carries me along quickly.The plot takes place in a strange magical steampunky Old London Town.
Blaylock used the book London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew to research the period setting. I... liked it? Homunculus by James P. Blaylock is a part of the “A Tale of Langdon St. Ives” series. A tiny man said to be from another world is kept in a small box, the harnessing of his considerable powers a tug-of-war in a deadly-fun game between armchair adventurers/inventors and baddies and their weird science.Corpses are animated in 1870s London by a hunchbacked fiend. Start by marking “Homunculus (Narbondo, #2)” as Want to Read: Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations
As other reviews said, the start was slow but the pace improved towards the second half.Corpses are animated in 1870s London by a hunchbacked fiend.
I read this because it's considered a seminal Steampunk work.
it took a while for my mind to not keep skittering off the setting, and there are probably more moving pieces than it needs, but I'm intrigued to read the next St. Ives book, so that's not nothing. "Homunculus" is a dizzy romp through a fictional late 19th century London populated by daffy gentleman Natural Philosophers, grizzled but upstanding inventors and adventurers, wicked and perverted mad-scientists, and the tout-hearted and unflappable women who support them (the good guys, not the creeps).
I first read this story in a battered paperback form more than 15 years ago. There are alarms and excursions to the countyside where a moon rocket launch goes a little arwy. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Throw in a few mad-scientists, villains, a dirigible steered by a skeleton, a tiny little man in a jar who may be an alien, and reanimated corpses into the mix and you have a novel filled with sci-fi/steampunk that will have you laughing at inappropriate times, biting your nails as the story progress and turning the pages constantly.This is a tricky one - If I rated this book just on how easy and enjoyable it was it would be a 2 BUT I know that is as much me as anything and I have read other James Blaylock books which I have really enjoyed so I am giving it a three star because to use that famous quote - its not you, its me!This is a tricky one - If I rated this book just on how easy and enjoyable it was it would be a 2 BUT I know that is as much me as anything and I have read other James Blaylock books which I have really enjoyed so I am giving it a three star because to use that famous quote - its not you, its me!Fair warning: this book has one of the steepest in media res opening I ever got the chance to read.
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