The Osiris Ritual

The author of "The Affinity Bridge" delivers a steampunk mystery adventure featuring immortality, artifacts, and intrepid sleuths Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes.

GEORGE MANN is the head of publishing at the UK-based Games Workshop. He edited The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction anthology series and is the author of a number of fiction and nonfiction books, including The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. The first of the Newbury and Hobbes investigations, The Affinity Bridge, was his first novel.

“Mann’s imagination has clearly run wild in this quirky and well realized version of the world, and this is no bad thing. [The Affinity Bridge is] fun, it’s exciting, and Mann has a very agreeable hand that’s easy to appreciate. He has a sharp talent for writing and a surplus of enthusiasm for the genre.”
—SciFiNow

“Tremendous fun.... Mann writes great chase scenes! [The Affinity Bridge] marks George Mann as a writer of enormous promise.”
—SFRevu

“Hugely entertaining.”
—SFSignal

“An enormous pile of awesome”
—Chris Roberson, World Fantasy Award finalist