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Original Title:	The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
ISBN:	1932265155 (ISBN13: 9781932265156)
Edition Language:	English

The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana

Jess Nevins

Hardcover | Pages: 1009 pages

Rating: 4.48 | 130 Users | 16 Reviews

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Title	:	The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
Author	:	Jess Nevins
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1009 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2005 by Monkeybrain
Categories	:	Fantasy. Reference. Science Fiction. Steampunk. Historical. Victorian

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This book is big. Really big. Vastly and hugely big. You may think it's a long way down to the chemists, but that's peanuts compared to The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana. I've looked up so many entries and each time I do, I find myself wandering about to other random entries. Cracking into this book requires time (and a wheelbarrow), but it's time well spent. Rather like wandering through an information maze and finding little prizes at the end of the dead-stops throughout. Jess knows his stuff, and now thanks to his encyclopedia, so do I.

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Holy CRAP this book is amazing. Way too much text to really process in a chunk; as a reference book to those interested in Victorian culture, pulp fiction, or any kind of popular literature, it absolutely can't be beat. It absolutely boggles my mind to see the level of scholarship that goes in to a book like this. Introduction by Michael Moorcock gets it extra points.

Really effin' love this book. Great info on a lot of great characters. Complaints would be the amount of space given to some characters over others and an index without page numbers. Its statedly written in a personal opinion matter which is actually preferable and engaging for my kind of reading - it reads more like a conversation with or lecture by Nevins as opposed to a collection of dry summaries.

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Probably the most amazing collection of Victorian "pulp" fiction references available. A good reference book for anyone interested in this time period (or trying to decipher references to this time period).

Jess Nevins mammoth survey of Victorian popular fiction is a hugely entertaining and handy tome for anyone with more than a passing interest in the era and its bewildering array of literary heroes and villains. As the title suggests this is in fact a straightforward encyclopedia, featuring listings and write-ups summarizing background, explaining character traits, etcfor hundreds of characters, ranging from the obvious to the obscure. Perhaps a bit less objective than Id like, with Nevins

This book is big. Really big. Vastly and hugely big. You may think it's a long way down to the chemists, but that's peanuts compared to The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana. I've looked up so many entries and each time I do, I find myself wandering about to other random entries. Cracking into this book requires time (and a wheelbarrow), but it's time well spent. Rather like wandering through an information maze and finding little prizes at the end of the dead-stops throughout. Jess knows his

Reading encyclopediae is not normally my bag, but Jess Nevins' masterpiece of genre research begged to be made an exception. Nevins, a research librarian, started out on the web publishing annotations for Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, and they were so good, that Moore himself noticed them and wrote forewards for them when they were published. By this time, however, Nevins had also begun casting his net more widely, compiling information on fantastical literature of the