It’s 2150. System Space has collapsed and most human civilization withit. Eddard Ryan and his fellow prisoners continue to suffer theremote-control domination of the Mercury Station Borstal and itscondescending central authority, the qompURE MERKUR? programmed totreat all prisoners as adolescents. When self-styled chrononaut CountReginald Skaw shows up off Mercury with an inter-station cruiser athis disposal, there’s suddenly the possibility of escape — into thepast. Ryan, an Irish Republican, has always fancied himself a skepticwhere time travel is concerned. But the girl of his dreams, Black RoseArmy confederate Koré McAllister, thinks otherwise. And when Korémysteriously disappears with Count Skaw, a little witch emerges out ofthe textual wilderness of fourteenth century Preussland to dispute thelegitimacy of history itself.
Mercury Station
Mark von Schlegell reads two chapters from Mercury Station, his book about the collapse of human civilization in 2150.
