![]() A wall is erected to contain the gas within the affected part of the city. Blue's "Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine" (or "Boneshaker" for short, named after boneshaker bicycles of the era), instead destroys several blocks of downtown Seattle and releases a subterranean vein of "blight gas" that kills anyone who breathes it and turns some of the corpses into rotters (non-supernatural zombies). Anxious Russian investors commission American inventor Leviticus Blue to create a machine which can mine through the ice of Russian-owned Alaska. It won the 2010 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.Įarly in the American Civil War, rumors of gold in the Klondike have brought would-be prospectors to North America's Pacific Northwest. ![]() ![]() It was nominated for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2010)īoneshaker is a science fiction novel by American writer Cherie Priest, combining the steampunk genre with zombies in an alternate history version of Seattle, Washington. ![]()
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