By Allen Schade
Books
Nine real voyages rebuilt from the logs of the people who sailed them, and a science-fiction series set on a moon in permanent red twilight.
Narrative Nonfiction · History
The Price of Discovery
Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Exploration
Nine real voyages, rebuilt from the words of the people who sailed them. Drawing on captains' logs and primary accounts from the 1400s through the 1700s, it turns the Age of Exploration back into what it was for the men aboard: uncertain, costly and astonishing, without losing the texture of the original record. Illustrated with historical maps and drawings.
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Science Fiction · A Series
The Iron Gardener
Terror in the Ghost Spires!
In the dead light of the ghost spires, something tends a garden that should not grow. A colony on a moon of permanent red twilight, administered by four AIs sixty years after the event that ended human governance, and a mechanic who can extend his nervous system into machines by touching them.
Book One of the Iron Gardener series. Paperback and ebook.
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New chapters go out as they are written, along with essays on the making of them, in Toil & Craft.