Early in the American Civil War, rumors of gold in the Klondike have brought would-be prospectors to North America’s Pacific Northwest. Anxious Russian investors commission American inventor Leviticus Blue to create a machine which can mine through the ice of Russian-owned Alaska. Blue’s «Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine» (or «Boneshaker» for short, named after boneshaker bicycles of the era), instead destroys several blocks of downtown Seattle and releases a subterranean vein of «blight gas» that turns anyone who breathes it into a species of zombie. (Wikipedia)
Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2010.
