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Three Men in Orbit
SCIENCE HAS CONQUERED GRAVITY
BUT WOMEN STILL FIGHT FOR THE VOTE
The well-meaning but accident-prone heroes of Jerome K. Jerome's much-loved classic Three Men in a Boat return to make cheerful nonsense of an Edwardian steampunk world.
"I shall not be soaring into orbit in an anti-gravity bathysphere," I told Harris and George. A boat was bad enough, but as to a pleasure trip into the endless void, I said no, no, a thousand times no!
Yet somehow fate and anti-gravity soon found us levitating into the starry aether, and as I predicted, peril soon ensued. Fraudsters. Bank robbers. Zero gravity hustlers.
And suffragettes.
All while trying to figure out the operation of a sextant. Surely it can't be more difficult than opening a tin of pineapple.
"Jolly good fun! This rollicking interplanetary adventure succeeds as both historical science fiction and Edwardian pastiche, combining moments of real drama with amusing digressions. A winner."
David D. Levine, Hugo- and Nebula-winning author of Arabella of Mars
BUT WOMEN STILL FIGHT FOR THE VOTE
The well-meaning but accident-prone heroes of Jerome K. Jerome's much-loved classic Three Men in a Boat return to make cheerful nonsense of an Edwardian steampunk world.
"I shall not be soaring into orbit in an anti-gravity bathysphere," I told Harris and George. A boat was bad enough, but as to a pleasure trip into the endless void, I said no, no, a thousand times no!
Yet somehow fate and anti-gravity soon found us levitating into the starry aether, and as I predicted, peril soon ensued. Fraudsters. Bank robbers. Zero gravity hustlers.
And suffragettes.
All while trying to figure out the operation of a sextant. Surely it can't be more difficult than opening a tin of pineapple.
"Jolly good fun! This rollicking interplanetary adventure succeeds as both historical science fiction and Edwardian pastiche, combining moments of real drama with amusing digressions. A winner."
David D. Levine, Hugo- and Nebula-winning author of Arabella of Mars
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February 14, 2025
When my friend told me she'd written a sci-fi pastiche of Three Men in a Boat, I reacted with enormous enthusiasm.
"Yes...the target audience might consist of...you," she said thoughtfully. Let's hope the discerning public proves her wrong and buys loads of copies!
What if disaster-prone layabouts Harris, George and J. go on a trip to space, launching from a retrofuture London where this is as straightforward as hopping on the train (even more so, perhaps, as they're not bound by a timetable) thanks to technology from The First Men in the Moon?
The result is a joyous adventure that's delightfully true to the source material, and improves on it by actually having a plot. I only wish the dog Montmorency were in it, but it would be churlish to knock off a star for that.
"Yes...the target audience might consist of...you," she said thoughtfully. Let's hope the discerning public proves her wrong and buys loads of copies!
What if disaster-prone layabouts Harris, George and J. go on a trip to space, launching from a retrofuture London where this is as straightforward as hopping on the train (even more so, perhaps, as they're not bound by a timetable) thanks to technology from The First Men in the Moon?
The result is a joyous adventure that's delightfully true to the source material, and improves on it by actually having a plot. I only wish the dog Montmorency were in it, but it would be churlish to knock off a star for that.
September 7, 2024
An excellent pastiche of Jerome K. Jerome. Sandra Bond adds a sequel to “Three Men in a Boat” 135 years after it was published. In this adventure the three men, Harris, George, and the narrator J., use a cavorite powered sphere to head first to an orbital and then the moon. They encounter feminists, con men, bank robbers, and a Heinlein hero. Sandra gets the breezy prose of JKJ seemingly effortlessly. Great fun.
August 30, 2024
Very funny, a good pastiche of Jerome K. Jerome but with added H.G. Wells. If you like SF, humour and Victoriana, you'll love this.
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