num_pages: 328
description: On a dark evening in 1824 a lady is offered a ride home in the carriage of a dark and mysterious stranger and a boy is conceived to the strains of Beethoven's brand-new setting to the Ode to Joy. Groomed from childhood to become a perfect British hero young Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax proceeds uncertainly through public school a career in the navy mutiny and court-martial before discovering his true place in life. There is in Whitehall a comfortable and slightly shabby club called Redking's. Downstairs from Redking's however is concealed the London headquarters of the Gentlemen's Speculative Society... a centuries-old fraternity devoted to the development of what its members call Technologia. Their goal is to bring about a Utopian paradise of science through the manipulation of men and governments. Edward as one of their agents sets off on an odyssey across 19th-century Europe encountering on the way flying machines self-propelled carriages and an Underground Galvanic Railway... and learns that the Society in its various disguises is everywhere.Cover art by J.K. Potter
language: English
title: Not Less Than Gods
publisher: Subterranean Press