The Folly in Using Time to Change the Past (on monsters, mayhem, & more)... (fantasy/steampunk REVIEW)
We’d all like a re-do now and then, wouldn’t we? After royally mucking up something--saying or doing the exact wrong thing--think how fabulous it would be to have a second chance to make things right. Therein lies the problem, of course: it’s not possible; for there to be any second chances, we’d need the ability to go back in time. Ah, but what if time travel were possible... if we had the technology and know-how to traipse back and forth between present and past? If we had the opportunity to go back and undo whatever--and then, to do it differently-- wouldn’t most of us take it? ~ ✠ ~ ✠ ~ ✠ ~ ✠ ~ ✠ ~ At a large (and highly-anticipated) London congregation of geographers, naturalists, botanists, and journalists in 1861, the stage is set for Sir Richard Francis Burton, famed (and famously-controversial) world explorer and linguist, to-- hopefully --lay waste to some of the spurious claims recently made by his former-friend-and-exploring-partner, Mr. John Hanning Speke. To...