Esta saga se adentra en una historia alternativa donde la ciencia y la magia se entrelazan en una tumultuosa era de revoluciones. Sigue los viajes de mentes brillantes y aventureros intrépidos mientras se enfrentan a fuerzas antiguas y conspiraciones ocultas. Esta serie de aventuras explora los profundos 'qué pasaría si' que surgen cuando descubrimientos poderosos se desvían de lo esperado, desatando una cascada de eventos con consecuencias que alteran el mundo.
In this amalgam of fantasy and alternative history, Sir Isaac Newton turns his mind to alchemy and successfully unleashes Philosopher's Mercury, the key to manipulating the four elements. Powerful kings will battle to control it, until London itself is threatened with destruction by a hellish device.
1722: A second Dark Age looms. An asteroid has devastated the Earth, called down by dire creatures who plot against the world of men. The brilliant-- some say mad--Isaac Newton has taken refuge in ancient Prague. There, with his young apprentice Ben Franklin, he plumbs the secrets of the aetheric beings who have so nearly destroyed humanity.But their safety is tenuous. Peter the Great marches his unstoppable forces across Europe. And half a world away, Cotton Mather and Blackbeard the pirate assemble a party of colonial luminaries to cross the Atlantic and discover what has befallen the Old World. With them sails Red Shoes, a Choctaw shaman whose mysterious connections to the invisible world warn him that they are all moving toward a confrontation as violent as it is decisive . . .
Eldritch forces wreak havoc in this stunning third volume in the 'Age of Unreason' quartet
As ruthless Russian forces lay waste to the New World, English troops in the east are determined to reconquer the colonies. Benjamin Franklin and his allies are trapped in between the Russian and English forces. But balance of power rests with a French woman whose secret may reveal where her true allegiance lies. This edition features a new prologue.