Endeavour’s Fall is a fast-paced steampunk adventure set in a world of airship battles, intrigue, and revolution.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. -Lord Isaac Newton, PBUH Sam froze, because he couldn’t do anything else, even if he had wanted to. Jones, who wore his […]
Paris is worth its Mass. -Emperor Henry XII Earlier that evening, while Sam was still winding rope high in the rigging, Boulanger entered the airship’s bridge. Lockhart looked up from his charts. “Anything to report?” “Everything is ship-shape, Captain. Here, let me get you some light.” “Yes, the sun seems to have […]
A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason […]
The power of ‘impressing’ crew into the Royal Airship Navy, ever to be reprobated, except in cases of emergency, is, nevertheless, of ancient and long-continued exercise, and its legality has been repeatedly recognized… -Sir William Blackstone On a clear day off the coast of New England, Adams struggled to read a letter […]
When a flash of lightning is seen, and a loud crash is heard, they say, “That is the boy [the Son of Heno the Thunder God]! He is trying to hit the earth children with a fire stone. He remembers how they struck him, a long time ago.” -Why Lightning Sometimes Strikes, […]
TO allow a Witch to live I’ll ne’er conspire! Unholy subjects suit my feeble lays: O howl, foul Joan, I’ll tune the Lyre, Who did, they say, Evils in her days! She betrayed her King to invading Bands, And soon the hope of France disappointed; The Lily withered in her cursed hands, […]
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. -Lord Isaac Newton, PBUH “Hey Jack. My name is Sam.” Jack looked him up and down. Uncomfortable, Sam said: “I’m looking for a doctor. He lives over on Arbor Hill. Do you know where that is?” “Oh, a […]
At the first turning of the second stair I turned and saw below The same shape twisted on the banister Under the vapour in the fetid air. – Tom S. Eliot Sam did not know what to expect at the stairs’ apogee. He certainly did not expect the sound of raucous […]
He dreamt of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. He saw the angels of God ascending and descending on the incline. -Gen. 28:12, New Academy Translation The rumbling of a loaded freight train shook Sam awake. He had fallen asleep on the metal floor of the Deacon’s […]
Law 1 Corollary 6: If bodies, any how moved among themselves, are urged in the direction of parallel lines by equal accelerative forces, they will all continue to move among themselves, after the same manner as if they had been urged by no such forces. -Lord Isaac Newton, PBUH The Deacon often […]