Questa saga si addentra in una storia alternativa in cui scienza e magia si intrecciano in un'epoca tumultuosa di rivoluzioni. Segui i viaggi di menti brillanti e audaci avventurieri mentre affrontano forze antiche e cospirazioni nascoste. Questa serie d'avventura esplora i profondi 'e se' che sorgono quando potenti scoperte deviano dall'atteso, scatenando una cascata di eventi con conseguenze che alterano il mondo.
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.