High Vaultage by Chris and Jen Sugden

(Gollancz, 2024)

Reviewed by Kate Onyett

This may be alt-history Victoriana, but this is not your mother’s steam-punk. Self-described as ‘Tesla-punk’ by the authors, this version of Victorian London is not coal-fired, but thrums with wireless electricity (no, really, Tesla actually did experiment with wi-fi power). London, now called Even Greater London (EGL), covers the entire southern half of Britain, ending somewhere roughly in the midlands with a thick barrier-forest well stocked with wolves to keep the civilised locked in.

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