by Paul Di Filippo
This is actually a collection of three novellas, 'Victoria', 'Hottentots' and 'Walt and Emily'.In 'Victoria', we find ourselves firstly in 1838 in the company of Cosmo Cowperthwait a hit and miss inventor. Cowperthwait should by rights be dictating his story from a death row prison cell as such are ...
I had some difficulties with this book. And that’s because two out of three stories bored me slowly to death. But let us start with the good one, the first one:VictoriaThe soon-to-be-Queen disappears and while the search for her goes on a look alike takes her place. Luckily for the court, a scienti...