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Lord Kelvin’s Machine

Name: Lord Kelvin’s Machine
Rating: 3.47 (438 reviews)
Author: James P. Blaylock

James P. Blaylock

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Determined to avert the doom of his beloved wife, scientist and detective Langdon St. Ives sees his only hope for doing so in Lord Kelvin’s time machine, but the diabolical Dr. Ignacio Narbondo has other plans for the invention. Reprint.

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