Leviathans in the Clouds

✍ Scribed by Parish-Whittakerm, David; Savile, Steven

• Book ID: 107809004
• Publisher: Untreed Reads
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 100 KB
• Series: Space: 1889 & Beyond; Series 2 3
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

It all seemed so straightforward at first...

Quantity surveying in the rain drenched swamps of Venus. How hard could it be? Endure a bit of rain, dig about where directed and Bob's your uncle. To be sure, there were the local carnivorous lizards the size of houses, occasionally hostile natives and the local German colony, which had never proved particularly reasonable when it came to servants of the Crown digging about in what they clearly felt was their back garden. But by now, that sort of thing was barely more troublesome than setting out an afternoon tea for the good crew of the Esmeralda II.

True, some might call a plan a touch problematic if it requires bailing out of an airship in a single-seat experimental glider while a Venusian storm rages. If said plan also involves landing in German-controlled territory in order to meet a marginally sane geologist named Jungle Ned, one might even call the whole affair tricky.

But things go from tricky to worse when they arrive...