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Today's indie author review! The Vitruvian Mask" by BJ Sikes

"A fascinating read that does not take the easy route... There is a flicker hope by the end of the book – we’ll have to wait and see if there will be any silver lining to the rain clouds that hang over Paris."

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Thanks to resubmission rules, my #althistory novel To Climates Unknown is back this year for the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition:
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I'm calling the "solo hero" franchise Power Ranger as a sort of nod/ timeline signpost. That's the Kamen Rider parallel. Need to figure out what to call what we get as a Super Sentai-alike instead of our world's Power Rangers. #AltHistory #Ameritoku

I just wrote up an Ameritoku timeline entry depicting a show made in response to Goosebumps. Odd where the mind goes. #AltHistory #Ameritoku

The timing of the release was an accident no matter how hard either side tries to protest it to the contrary as of a matter of a fact some of the Murrows Boys were flat out anti mutant. The greatest side effect for the pro mutant faction was the near instant discrediting of several hard line anti-mutant scientists by their association with the Ill-mannered Senator. This resulted in great wide spread pro mutant stance and the virtual still birth of anti-mutant mayhem. #Mutant #althistory

Finished chapter 16 of my #WIP, in which we see airship repair, a broken leg, and lots and lots of stew. All of it, of course, is overshadowed by a floundering romance where neither partner quite has her head on straight.

I currently #amwriting the sequel to my #althistory #steampunk novel. (Out for queries now!)

The War of the Worlds - In Real Time'

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Today is Wednesday 30 June 1897
'Reunions'

Wells, back in his own mind, and taking advantage of the free trains running from Waterloo, returns to Woking to be reunited with his wife.

While Toni receives word from her friend (Well’s brother) that he had survived the war in a French refugee camp.

And for those still with us we explore what the future will bring for those who have shared their lives with us during this fictionalised docudrama, starting with the 1900 election and David Lloyd George’s landside victory that resulted in Salisbury’s coalition of Unionists and Conservatives being reduced to a mere rump as the Liberals win 54% of the vote, while the Labour Representation Committee, later to become the Labour Party, wins 25%.

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Photograph: David Lloyd George (Taken: 31 December 1918)

Photograph: Refugees returning to London (Source: Image of Belgium Refugees arriving in England in the first months of WW1)

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Today is Tuesday 29 June 1897
To Commemorate Victory Over the Martians'

As the Daily Mail resumes publication with a special commemorative edition, Wells recovers sufficiently to bid farewell to London, but before he leaves he ventures out one more time to observe the return of its inhabitants.

And for Toni, released from the massive responsibility of operating the only functioning ‘hospital’ in London, her mind can turn to other things – like what to do now, and what the future might look like.

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Photograph: Refugees returning to London (Source: Image of Belgium Refugees arriving in England in the first months of WW1)

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Today is Monday 28 June 1897

As HG Wells wanders through London in a fugue, the city begins to return to life around him.

Today the Queen attends a service in Balmoral to mourn those lost.

And for Toni, this is a defining day. For much of July, she’s been at the forefront of things. Now, there’s an attempt to shunt aside the women who stepped up when others didn’t.

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Photograph: Queen Victoria with The Prince of Wales. The Duke of York and Prince Edward of York. (Source The Royal Collection Aug 1899)

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Today is Sunday 27 June 1897

With the news that the Martian’s are dead, the army moves south to restore order, even as Queen Victoria acts to seize and protect all Martian artifacts by establishing #RotchWood to take ownership of all property previously belonging to the Martians.

Once again, Toni has little time to speculate on much except saving lives. However, her diary references her growing understanding of the politics of the time.

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Illustration: Rotch Wood begins its work Original illustration by Henrique Alvim Corrêa for the 1906 edition of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds"

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Today is Friday 26 June 1897
'The Cost of Deliverance'

Despite the momentous events of the preceding day, Toni and Grace have no time to spend sitting around. There are too many people still needing help. Apart from a brief description of the end of Saturday’s trek. Toni continues to assist the infirm.

As we accompany Wells to the Martian’s last redoubt at Primrose Hill, from where he can look down upon the ruins of London, news reaches the Continent that the Martians are dead and aid begins to roll in.

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Photograph: Source US National Archives 239-RC-90-3 (Palermo WW2)

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Today is Friday 25 June 1897
'Cry: Ulla, Ulla, Ulla'

Today, we follow Wells (to some extent a victim of the Martians) as he passes through the heart of an apparently dead London, witnessed only by the mournful cry of ‘Ulla Ulla Ulla’ in the distance.

Against this, Toni’s diary chronicles the events of this momentous day through the eyes of a survivor. Even though strange sounds echo through London, she and Elizabeth Cadbury make the trek north to collect more supplies for the hospital. Along the way, they encounter an empty Martian machine, and the first incredulous seeds of hope are sown.

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Illustration: ‘The Handling Machine' by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, from the 1906 Belgium (French language) edition of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds", 1906.

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Today is Thursday 24 June 1897
'A Meeting of Future Enemies'

On the edge of Wimbledon Common Wells meets the artilleryman he first met at Woking so many days before. The artilleryman has not seen any Martians for 5 days and they discuss his plans for resistance.

And FOR THE FIRST TIME we disclose the identity of Wells' 'artilleryman'.

In London Toni continues to be thankful for those who were left or stayed behind. Edith Cavell, who would, during The German War, be shot by the Germans for helping soldiers of both side, organises the nursing staff at Queen Anne’s Mansion, and the oldies who have found purpose despite their abandonment.

Toni continues to struggle with her own feelings of abandonment by the government of the day, and we begin to see her political awakening as she starts to appreciate that there may be more beyond achieving the vote. Now she has begun to question who should be in government.

Today is also the last we hear of Morant, who disappears while leading a force to release any humans still held prison in the Martian’s redoubt on Primrose Hill.

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Photograph: ‘The Artilleryman in a photograph taken shortly after the Martian War’.

Today's new queer spec fic release: BJ Sikes' steampunk/alt history The Vitruvian Mask.

1881: The electric lights of Paris have been extinguished. The Naturalist revolution is over. Adelaide was on the losing side. Once the Royal Scientist Doctor for the now-dead cyborg monarchs of France, she’s now...

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Today is Wednesday 23 June 1897
'Wells Escapes the House'

Wells is drawn out of the house he had been imprisoned in Sheen by the sight of a dog fossicking around the Martian pit. Over the course of the day we follow his progress through Kew before he breaks into the inn at the top of Putney Hill to spend the night.

While elsewhere in London, Morant is focussed on a tripod that had been found motionless in Lambeth.

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Illustration: ‘Martian over the Thames’. Original illustration by Henrique Alvim Corrêa for the 1906 edition of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds"

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Today Monday 21 June 1897
'A Deserted London'

The reduction in the number of Martians patrolling London allows the NUWSS hospital to open quietly (see photograph). Red weed continues to choke the streets, and people still have to hide from the Martians to access help, but the wireless communication and organisation from the surviving NUWSS members provide hope for survivors.

Still at his underground base Morant and his followers toast Queen Victoria for her accession to the throne in 1837. This would have been the day of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

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Photograph: Source: Museum of the City of New York / Byron Co. Collection - photograph late 1890s or early 1900's)

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Today Monday 21 June 1897
'Wells' Slow Recovery'

Wells continues to slowly build up his strength prior to leaving from the house he has now been confined to for 13 days.

Toni’s diary chronicles an epic journey from Queen Anne’s Mansions to Bryanston Square in the quest for more equipment and medicines. She and Grace Stewart undertook the journey alone. In normal days, a round trip of 6.5km would take about an hour and a half. This journey took an entire day.

Elsewhere in London, Morant continues to pester Marie Curie to provide him with weapons, even as the flood of refugees passing along the escape routes he and Brown established appears endless.

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Photograph: Waterloo Station, taken in 1902.

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Today Sunday 20 June 1897
'The Martian’s Camp on Hampstead Heath'

From a historical perspective, we are beginning to see that determination, organisation, and competence, lead to results that have far reaching consequences. As does the opposite.

We continue to see the @NUWSS’ organisational abilities with outposts now in regular contact now via radio. In her diary Toni notes the increasing difficulty of moving through London because of the Red Weed which has clogged London’s waterways and caused the Thames to break its banks.

In Woking we witness the determined assault on the Martian’s pit, while in London Morant delivers the eulogy for Pierre Currie at a small commemoration service held in the undercroft at Westminster.

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Photograph: Crypt Chapel (Chapel of St Mary Undercroft), Westminster, taken in 1905

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Today Saturday 19 June 1897 'Silence'

Wells finally emerges from the house he had been confined for 11 days, to the sound of — silence.

In London, Toni’s diary continues to demonstrate the determination and organisational skills of the suffragists. And once again, we see Elizabeth Cadbury’s exemplary leadership qualities demonstrated.

Elsewhere in the greatest city on Earth, Morant records that one of the men who had taken the heat-ray off him had turned up with the news that Pierre Curie had been trying to get the heat ray to work at a lab in Oxford when it exploded, killing him instantly.

Outside the city, Commander Carver and Maxim finish their plans for a combined attack against the Martians in the Woking Pit, an attack that will be undertaken from both the air, and ground.
And we consider the report on an examination of the Martian’s machines recovered by Lieutenant Dullanty, undertaken at Roche Wood under the direction of Sir J Dullanty (the Lieutenant’s father).

And discuss an explanation for why the Martian’s only launched a restricted number of capsules.

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Illustration: "Death of the Curate' by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, from the 1906 Belgium (French language) edition of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds", 1906. A scan from the original graphic. (Wikikmedia.org) - In Public Domain