description: The Faust myth reinterpreted for the information age. At the turn of the 16th century in the city of Wittenberg, Magister Faust is made an offer he cannot refuse by a force he cannot resist. If he accepts the offer he will know all there is to know, have answers to the mysteries of physics, astronomy and religion that have long frustated him, but if he accepts he will also be condemning the human race to inevitable death. Or so says the demon, Mephistopheles. With the sharing of demonic knowledge comes the race for ever greater technological breakthroughs - within scant years the inventions of the twentiethcentury, the atrocity machines, are ready...Mesphistopheles' vision of the end of mankind is days away - a dictator is risen and the final nuclear confrontation looms
language: English
title: Jack Faust
titlecomplete: Jack Faust
characters: Margarete, Jack Faust, Mephistopheles
genres: Historical, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Alternate History, Dystopia, Steampunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 631
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Sidewise Award
category: Alternate History
publisher: Avon Books [1997].