[quote=""njslater""]As I researched my book I discovered there were quite enough remarkable things going on in Victorian times without resorting to steampunk. For instance it is strange but true that the fore-runners of the IRA built a submarine in the 1880s in order to attack British ships.[/quote]
I believe there were subs in the American Civil War as well.
It was an interesting age for sure.
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Return of the Victorian age thriller
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The Hunley was the most famous Civil war submarine and was amazingly, pedal powered. The writer Clive Cussler found it (others claim this too) and the US Navy recovered it and it is in a museum in Charleston.
The Irish had the Fenian Ram built and though it was never used it is in a museum too in Paterson New Jersey
The Irish had the Fenian Ram built and though it was never used it is in a museum too in Paterson New Jersey
N.J. Slater writer of Napoleonic and Victorian era thrillers
The first manned submersible, called The Turtle, was built and used during the American Revolution. Interesting article--which includes correspondence between Jefferson and Washington about the vessel--here:
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/onl ... turtle.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/onl ... turtle.htm
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Another notable book is Erik Larson's THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY about the Chicago World Fair and the "first" American serial killer. It's non-fiction, but reads like a novel. Excellent research and beautiful prose.
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Re: Return of the Victorian age thriller
Sure, the Vickies had science and all. Charles Babbage worked( mostly fruitlessly) on a prototypical 'computer'. He was aided in promoting the device by Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter by Augusta Milbanke( a mathematician.) How funny: she is often credited as the first computer programmer; I suppose Babbage himself had shown her how, so he would take precedence.
My wife likes to read aloud, so she read me King Solomon's Mines and She by H. Rider Haggard. Swell stuff, even now.
My wife likes to read aloud, so she read me King Solomon's Mines and She by H. Rider Haggard. Swell stuff, even now.