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|title=The Doomsday Machine: Another Astounding Adventure of Horatio Lyle

|date=March 2009

|isbn=978-1905654024

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Deep beneath the London of the 1860s, dark things are afoot. People are going about their business on the surface completely unaware of an immense construction being formed from rare materials, and many thousands of hours of priceless scientific thinking, and many more thousands of hours of near value-less slave labour. It is the biggest machine the world has seen, so much so it is only known as The Machine. And because of how important it is, even though no human in London will ever notice it even when it works, the chief scientific brain has absconded with a vital part of it.

All in all, I am certainly jealous of the talents of Catherine Webb, in her seventh published book, and certainly younger than myself. I can't give this book full marks for just tiny and minor elements, and for the tailing off toward the end, but that was only more noticeable due to the sterling heights reached earlier. For a fan of the series this book will certainly provide more than enough thrills, and for a newcomer, I am sure I can recommend the series as well worth picking up - starting at the beginning, funnily enough.

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