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2011
The Extinction Gambit
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'Kingsley Ward is in dire trouble. Instead of thrilling the audience with his death-defying escapology, his first performance ends in disaster when his hidden wolfish nature bursts free. That same night, his father is abducted and his home ransacked. To find Dr Ward and redeem himself, Kingsley braves the Demimonde, the mysterious world that exists alongside our own. He is soon the target of two warring factions: immortal magicians whose diabolical plans will create mayhem at the 1908 London Olympics, and the last of the Neanderthals, whose vengeance will wipe out humankind. Kingsley needs help. The famous author Rudyard Kipling will assist, but why is he so interested in Kingsley?' (Source: Libraries Australia)
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Steampunk note: Though it lacks some of the features often taken as key to steampunk, The Extinction Gambit nevertheless warrants the label as it fits easily into a less exclusionary framework, such as the one proposed by Carol Ryles in Steampunk : Imagined Histories and Technologies of Science and Fantasy, in that its setting is a magical pseudo-Victorian world in which anachronism and the presence or re-imagined past events and figures play an important role.
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- Also dyslexic edition
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Review : The Extinction Gambit
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 56 no. 1 2012; (p. 33-34)
— Review of The Extinction Gambit 2011 single work novel -
Review : The Extinction Gambit
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2011/12 vol. 91 no. 6 2011; (p. 36)
— Review of The Extinction Gambit 2011 single work novel -
Review : The Extinction Gambit
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 19 no. 4 2011; (p. 8)
— Review of The Extinction Gambit 2011 single work novel -
Review : The Extinction Gambit
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 26 no. 5 2011; (p. 42, 44)
— Review of The Extinction Gambit 2011 single work novel
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Review : The Extinction Gambit
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 26 no. 5 2011; (p. 42, 44)
— Review of The Extinction Gambit 2011 single work novel -
Review : The Extinction Gambit
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 19 no. 4 2011; (p. 8)
— Review of The Extinction Gambit 2011 single work novel -
Review : The Extinction Gambit
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2011/12 vol. 91 no. 6 2011; (p. 36)
— Review of The Extinction Gambit 2011 single work novel -
Review : The Extinction Gambit
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 56 no. 1 2012; (p. 33-34)
— Review of The Extinction Gambit 2011 single work novel
Awards
- 2012 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
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