The Digging Leviathan

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by James P. Blaylock


  William cheered, thinking suddenly of his origami boat. Giles grinned sheepishly at Jim. Edward and Professor Latzarel shook hands. Five silent minutes later, with an air of absolute confidence, Giles Peach yanked the pair of levers that loosed them utterly from the Gerhardi, and from the dust and muck and turmoil of the surface world. They dropped into the abyss, gaining momentum, tree at last, following the dark wake of John Pinion, all of them bound at last on a strange and watery journey toward the center of the hollow Earth.

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  Also by James P. Blaylock

  The Elfin Series

  The Elfin Ship

  The Disappearing Dwarf

  The Stone Giant

  Langdon St Ives

  Homunculus*

  Lord Kelvin’s Machine*

  Other Novels

  The Digging Leviathan

  Land Of Dreams

  The Last Coin

  The Paper Grail

  The Magic Spectacles

  Night Relics

  All The Bells On Earth

  Winter Tides

  The Rainy Season

  Knights Of The Cornerstone

  Collections

  Thirteen Phantasms

  In For A Penny

  Metamorphosis

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  Dedication

  To Viki

  And to Johnny and Danny,

  best of all possible sons

  and consultants on all matters of scientific import

  And, most of all,

  To my parents, Daisy and Loren Blaylock

  James P. Blaylock (1950 - )

  James Paul Blaylock was born in Long Beach, California, in 1950, and attended California State University, where he received an MA. He was befriended and mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with his contemporaries K.W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded – along with Powers and Jeter – as one of the founding fathers of the steampunk movement. Winner of two World Fantasy Awards and a Philip K. Dick Award, he is currently director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County High School of the Arts, where Tim Powers is Writer in Residence.

  Copyright

  A Gollancz eBook

  Copyright © James P. Blaylock 1984

  All rights reserved.

  The right of James Blaylock to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  This eBook first published in Great Britain in 2011 by Gollancz

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  ISBN 978 0 575 11758 7

  All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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