{"product_id":"2026100009983-secondhand-the-space-machine-a-scientific-romance","title":"The Space Machine: A Scientific Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: unclipped dj preserved within mylar. Clean and tight copy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a breathtaking collision of Victorian adventure and cosmic terror, The Space Machine transports two unlikely companions — Edward Turnbull, a travelling salesman, and the enchanting Amelia Fitzgibbon — from the drawing rooms of Edwardian England to the alien wastelands of Mars. Christopher Priest's A Scientific Romance is a masterful homage to H.G. Wells, weaving together the narrative threads of both The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds into a single, propulsive story of survival, ingenuity, and wonder. The novel chronicles the pair's accidental journey through time and space, thrusting them into the heart of the Martian invasion before it reaches Earth — placing them inside a catastrophe that history has already written.\n\nPriest writes with a wit and precision that honours the spirit of Wells while asserting a wholly original voice, conjuring the gaslit romance of the late nineteenth century against a backdrop of mechanical terror and interplanetary war. The novel stands as a significant work in British science fiction, illustrating how genre literature can operate simultaneously as loving pastiche and serious literary endeavour. Richly detailed and relentlessly inventive, The Space Machine leaves the reader to wonder whether Turnbull and Amelia can alter the fate of two worlds — or whether they were part of the story all along.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161015394523,"sku":"2026100009983-SECONDHAND","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ce5cfcb6-c62d-4f5b-8b2d-9ea169288b53.png?v=1787189067","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009983-secondhand-the-space-machine-a-scientific-romance","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}