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The recently published 100-page novella Rottingdean Rhyme by Nils Nisse Visser is a well-rounded, standalone story. That said, it does tie in well with the author’s other Steampunk work. The protagonist of Rottingdean Rhyme is Yard Pilkin. He is a London clerk who has moved to the fishing village of Rottingdean. There he discovers that the local community is tight-knit and wary of strangers. He then meets Alice Kittyhawk. She is the protagonist of Visser’s Amster Damned, but still a child in Rottingdean Rhyme. Pilkin’s meeting with Alice is his first step to acceptance into the community. It also leads to his discovery that the entire village conceals a collective secret. “Rottingdean Rhyme was inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘A […]
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