Timeless
core novel 2012 Parasol Protectorate
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.12 (32,760 ratings, collected 2026-09-23) |
| Page count | 416 |
| First-edition ISBN | 0-316-12718-3 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss: two years after moving into the third closet of the vampire Lord Akeldama, she is raising her supernaturally precocious two-year-old daughter, Prudence. Then she receives a summons from the world's oldest vampire, the Queen of the Alexandria Hive, who requests an audience with Prudence. With husband, child, the inventor Madame Lefoux, her actress friend Ivy Tunstell and Ivy's family and theatrical troupe in tow, Alexia boards a steamer to cross the Mediterranean, but Egypt may hold more mysteries than even the indomitable Lady Maccon can handle. The fifth and final book of the Parasol Protectorate, a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles and tea-drinking.
Where it sits
- Universe: Parasol Protectorate
- Series: Parasol Protectorate core; position 5 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gail Carriger
Notes
- From the series record (Parasol Protectorate): A completed five-book steampunk/urban fantasy comedy-of-manners set in an alternate Victorian England where vampires and werewolves are a regulated part of polite society, following Alexia Tarabotti, a soulless woman whose touch neutralises supernatural powers, across marriage, motherhood, and widening supernatural politics.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Parasol Protectorate: position 5 of 5: previous Heartless (2011)
Sources
- Soulless (novel) — Wikipedia
- Changeless (novel) — Wikipedia
- Blameless (novel) — Wikipedia
- Heartless (Carriger novel) — Wikipedia
- Timeless (Carriger novel) — Wikipedia
- Orbit (publisher description and Publishers Weekly review)
- Loveland Public Library catalogue (series descriptions)
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