In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law a...
Each morning, she floated slowly to awareness like a bubble of air rising up from some bottomless ocean trench, the half-remembered fancies of her dream breaking apart and dissipating into the morning sun as it poured through the skylight and splashed onto the silk sheets. Her eyes fluttered open...
He’d brought the Mercedes. Niles blinked. He’d assumed Bob would bring his own car, a red Mini Cooper that Niles suspected he’d purchased because it was the complete opposite of the famous Terrormobile of the TV show. He hadn’t been looking forward to six hours crammed into that. The Mercedes wou...
“All right, we all know why we’re here.” Koslowski looked tired—eager to get it all over with. The room was crowded today, with Shifts One and Two crammed together in the same space. As Koslowski ran through the details of who’d be with Muttox on the inside of the stadium and who’d be helping Fri...
