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The Light AgesThe Light Ages is a steampunk and alternate history fantasy novel by Ian R. MacLeod. The novel is set in an alternate Victorian England during an Industrial Revolution fueled by a dangerous magical substance known as aether.

Plot
The Light Ages takes place in an industrializing England that relies on the mining of aether, a magical fifth element. Society is structured by a rigid labor caste system of guilds. The narrator and protagonist of the novel, Robert Borrows, belongs to a lowly guild in a Yorkshire mining village. He eventually journeys to London, where he joins a group of thieves, pickpockets, and revolutionaries who seek to overthrow the caste system.

Publication history
2003, UK, Earthlight (a former imprint of Simon & Schuster) ISBN 0743462424, Pub date May 2003, Hardback
2003, US, Ace Books ISBN 0441010555, Pub date May 2003, Hardback
2004, UK, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0743462440, Pub date 5 April 2004, Paperback
2004, US, Ace Trade, ISBN 0441011497, Pub date 6 April 2004, Paperback

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