Gordon Arthur Of Mars: Book 1: LONG LIVE THE EMPRESS
An alternate Victorian Mars campaign collapses after a single accident, binding a naval officer to a warship and a history that refuses to stabilise.
Chapter 1: The First Stroke “We should garrison Mars in order to protect ourselves.” Lord Salisbury, 58 Anno Reginae (1895 in the old style.) Her majesty’s martian colony: New Victoria in the crown colony of Hellas. 81 Anno Reginae. (1917) I, Gordon Arthur, have set these words to paper, as much as memory will let, years of twisting memories have made these events more like dreams. I cannot be certain what befell us on th...