"This novel felt like a dream as I was reading. Sometimes the dream was beautiful, other times, terrifying.
There is a wild, dark, humorous, and mysterious menagerie of characters, both historical and fictional. Edison, Margaret Fuller, Lincoln, Emerson, Jefferson, Franklin, Ada Byron Lovelace, Twain, Tesla, Sherman , Nemo, to name a few, plus of host of other-worldly good and evil-doers. And lets not forget the hero and heroine, the Texas Ranger Samuel McCord and his other-dimension wife Meilori.
All are on a journey across the Atlantic in a magnificent dirigible/star ship to tour parts of Europe and the Middle East. But danger lurks behind every door and who among the strange mix of travelers can be trusted?
At times this novel reminded me of those adventures by Talbot Mundy. At others, its dream-like quality reminded me of H. P. Lovecraft. And that should be enough to pique the interest of anyone who reads or has read Mundy and Lovecraft. Yeomans is an equal, a peer in realm of macabre adventure."
- Bish Denham
"Wow!
This blend of vampires, airships, and dragons kept me riveted, and often laughing. Not many creative artists can do humor well, but Roland’s talent with this is awesome, and one of the reasons I have come to like Steampunk. I never imagined I'd enjoy reading history turned upside down.
To experience 1867 in a way history says never existed! Sherman’s bloody march through Georgia never happened. Lincoln was never assassinated. The great Sioux nation still exists. I was enthralled.
To tell this fascinating story, Roland Yeomans writes in lyrical prose that’s akin to poetry.
Thank you, Roland Yeomans, for introducing me to a rollicking other-dimension world imagined as only you know how. A tale containing so many human truths I don’t have the space here to enumerate them. But they are underlined in my copy of the book. So many quotable aphorisms that contain a general truth, from the mouths of a cast of colorful characters from Mark Twain to a vampire Benjamin Franklin.
Well done, Roland Yeomans. I hope you never stop telling stories!" - Ann Best
"This novel felt like a dream as I was reading. Sometimes the dream was beautiful, other times, terrifying.
There is a wild, dark, humorous, and mysterious menagerie of characters, both historical and fictional. Edison, Margaret Fuller, Lincoln, Emerson, Jefferson, Franklin, Ada Byron Lovelace, Twain, Tesla, Sherman , Nemo, to name a few, plus of host of other-worldly good and evil-doers. And lets not forget the hero and heroine, the Texas Ranger Samuel McCord and his other-dimension wife Meilori.
All are on a journey across the Atlantic in a magnificent dirigible/star ship to tour parts of Europe and the Middle East. But danger lurks behind every door and who among the strange mix of travelers can be trusted?
At times this novel reminded me of those adventures by Talbot Mundy. At others, its dream-like quality reminded me of H. P. Lovecraft. And that should be enough to pique the interest of anyone who reads or has read Mundy and Lovecraft. Yeomans is an equal, a peer in realm of macabre adventure."
- Bish Denham
"Wow!
This blend of vampires, airships, and dragons kept me riveted, and often laughing. Not many creative artists can do humor well, but Roland’s talent with this is awesome, and one of the reasons I have come to like Steampunk. I never imagined I'd enjoy reading history turned upside down.
To experience 1867 in a way history says never existed! Sherman’s bloody march through Georgia never happened. Lincoln was never assassinated. The great Sioux nation still exists. I was enthralled.
To tell this fascinating story, Roland Yeomans writes in lyrical prose that’s akin to poetry.
Thank you, Roland Yeomans, for introducing me to a rollicking other-dimension world imagined as only you know how. A tale containing so many human truths I don’t have the space here to enumerate them. But they are underlined in my copy of the book. So many quotable aphorisms that contain a general truth, from the mouths of a cast of colorful characters from Mark Twain to a vampire Benjamin Franklin.
Well done, Roland Yeomans. I hope you never stop telling stories!" - Ann Best