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Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying
Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying
Supernatural steampunk adventures of detective duo, Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes in dark and dangerous Victorian London.
Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Airships soar in the skies over the city, ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons serve the bustling public.
But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. Queen Victoria is kept alive by a primitive life-support system while her agents Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, do battle with enemies of the crown, both physical and supernatural.
Along with Chief Inspector Bainbridge, Newbury & Hobbes will face plague revenants, murderous peers, mechanical beasts, tentacled leviathans, reanimated pygmies, and an encounter with Sherlock Holmes, in this brand new adventure for the detective team.
Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Airships soar in the skies over the city, ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons serve the bustling public.
But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. Queen Victoria is kept alive by a primitive life-support system while her agents Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, do battle with enemies of the crown, both physical and supernatural.
Along with Chief Inspector Bainbridge, Newbury & Hobbes will face plague revenants, murderous peers, mechanical beasts, tentacled leviathans, reanimated pygmies, and an encounter with Sherlock Holmes, in this brand new adventure for the detective team.
112 pages, Paperback
First published April 3, 2019
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About the author
George Mann
368 books675 followersGeorge Mann is an author and editor, primarily in genre fiction. He was born in Darlington, County Durham in 1978.
A former editor of Outland, Mann is the author of The Human Abstract, and more recently The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual in his Newbury and Hobbes detective series, set in an alternate Britain, and Ghosts of Manhattan, set in the same universe some decades later.
He wrote the Time Hunter novella "The Severed Man", and co-wrote the series finale, Child of Time.
He has also written numerous short stories, plus Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes audiobooks for Big Finish Productions. He has edited a number of anthologies including The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, The Solaris Book of New Fantasy and a retrospective collection of Sexton Blake stories, Sexton Blake, Detective, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock.
A former editor of Outland, Mann is the author of The Human Abstract, and more recently The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual in his Newbury and Hobbes detective series, set in an alternate Britain, and Ghosts of Manhattan, set in the same universe some decades later.
He wrote the Time Hunter novella "The Severed Man", and co-wrote the series finale, Child of Time.
He has also written numerous short stories, plus Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes audiobooks for Big Finish Productions. He has edited a number of anthologies including The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, The Solaris Book of New Fantasy and a retrospective collection of Sexton Blake stories, Sexton Blake, Detective, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock.
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February 6, 2022
I like steampunk stories. Over the years I have found some rare gems, even by authors I had never heard of.
This is a pleasant and intriguing story, set in the early twentieth century, which has as main characters a couple of agents of Her Majesty the Queen of England: Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes. Equipped with great investigative skills and a brilliant mind, they remember the couple Holmes and Watson. There is a mystery to unravel and an enemy arch to defeat: a simple plot, nothing too complicated, but the pace is good and the story reads well.
Other characters flank the two protagonists, increasing the possibilities offered by the story and the ideas used for the development of the plot.
The artwork is beautiful, each character well outlined, optimally rendering every expression and mood.
I discovered that the author has also written a cycle of novels with the same characters as protagonists and set before the comics. I haven’t read them, but this didn’t give me problems in understanding the story that is self-contained (the references to the novels encourage more than anything else to read them).
This is a pleasant and intriguing story, set in the early twentieth century, which has as main characters a couple of agents of Her Majesty the Queen of England: Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes. Equipped with great investigative skills and a brilliant mind, they remember the couple Holmes and Watson. There is a mystery to unravel and an enemy arch to defeat: a simple plot, nothing too complicated, but the pace is good and the story reads well.
Other characters flank the two protagonists, increasing the possibilities offered by the story and the ideas used for the development of the plot.
The artwork is beautiful, each character well outlined, optimally rendering every expression and mood.
I discovered that the author has also written a cycle of novels with the same characters as protagonists and set before the comics. I haven’t read them, but this didn’t give me problems in understanding the story that is self-contained (the references to the novels encourage more than anything else to read them).
January 20, 2023
"Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying" is a derivative and unimaginative Steampunk story that is still a lot of fun to read. The book is good for an afternoon of entertainment but serious fans of the genre will want to move on to other works quickly.
July 1, 2019
Good premise, and I'm interested in more, but it wasn't love.
March 11, 2024
Shamrita Bhikha: Mysterious, terrifying science fiction.
My favourite part of this book: The use of technology of that era to destroy beasts.
My favourite part of this book: The use of technology of that era to destroy beasts.
November 30, 2022
CAWPILE 7.57
Re-Read for Final Book Support Group November 2022.
I had to finish off my series read with the fun graphic novel, I loved seeing the physical descriptions come to life, the artwork is beautiful, the story quick paced and fun but not without it's drama.
Re-Read for Final Book Support Group November 2022.
I had to finish off my series read with the fun graphic novel, I loved seeing the physical descriptions come to life, the artwork is beautiful, the story quick paced and fun but not without it's drama.
May 6, 2025
A quick, beautifully drawn and colored adventure into the Newbury & Hobbes universe! I think it was interesting to see the way small quirks of character manifest differently in a traditional novel versus a graphic novel, particularly for Veronica.
March 29, 2019
4+ love steampunk and fun detective tales like this one.
June 15, 2019
It was fine....but not particularly novel and the artwork annoyed me. People do not have grooves where the artist drew them.
August 13, 2019
This was a very fun and easy steampunk GN. It's just the artwork style I like. I'll have to go chase down 1-2 & 4 now!
December 6, 2024
fun story. the artwork is stunning. I'm a whore for anything steampunk.
December 29, 2025
Nothing too original but fun nonetheless. Think of a steampunk Sherlock and a female Watson.
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