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The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy

The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy

LLC, Or All the Seas with Oysters Pub
Davidson, Avram

Paperback

Fantasy

ISBN10: 1955676461
ISBN13: 9781955676465
Publisher: Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing LLC.
Published: Mar 30 2024
Pages: 534
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Can such things be?

Engelbert Esztherhazy, scion, of aristocracy in Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania (fourth largest empire in Europe [the Turks were fifth]), could not have cared less. He had served his country and his Emperor in war; he now led the leisured life of his class. But then events overtook him, caught him up, whirled him about; and when he found his feet again, he was a changed man.

The servant of a visiting king was undoubtedly a shaman. What powers did he command? What other powers were secretly at work behind the familiar scenes of south-eastern Europe?

But also steam, already powering factories, ships and trains -- what more could it do, portent to the changing world of the late nineteenth century? Road transport... or even powered flight? Think of the dread possibilities for warfare!

But when the Autogóndola-Invention took to the skies over the territories that ambitious neighbors -- viz., Ruritania and Graustark -- wished to claim, was it really its steam engine that made it fly? Or did it depend on the unreckoned aid of sorcery? Between the old knowledge and the new, Eszterhazy was to spend his life, searching. Time and time again, the unexpected would visit him, often leaving the learned Doctor to end a notebook entry with UNEXPLAINED.

Here are tales of the most gripping such visitations, now brought together in one comprehensive volume. Several of these stories were collected as The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy, a 1975 Warner Books paperbacks, now long unobtainable. These represent less than half of the present volume, which includes stories of his earlier career, published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories under the aegis of George Scithers. A foreword by Gene Wolfe and an afterword by the author complete The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy.

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