Fiction Stories

Chuck Sneyd joins his grandfather Morty in an effort to build a new form of spaceship. Instead of rockets, the ship is to have a new form of propulsion. Instead of explosive fuels, the impeller is electric drive; feed in power, the impeller turns it into motion. If they succeed, any number of industries will suddenly find themselves pushed aside. They are not at all pleased, nor are governments who would like very much to discover how the impellers work! / (Reviews)

Set in Victorian England, Jonathan comes home badly beaten from his school and his mother aids his recover and discovers something about herself and her husband.