Maximilian Ward had two wooden legs, but not in a row. Let me explain. He had three legs in total. Two of them were left legs. The right leg was firmly attached, and probably grew out of his hip at some point. The other two legs, he made at his workbench. As usual, he was wearing one while working on the other. The leg that Max was working on was his favorite. It was the wood-panelled one with chrome bits, and quality leather buckles keeping it together. And it had pockets! I

The first thing they realized was that the stars did not match any configuration to which they were used. The natives of this land were slightly taller and thinner, and spoke a strange approximation of English, which was clearly not their primary language. One clear, crisp night about 120 years ago, the steamship RMS Ivan Thomas (carrying mining engineers from England to Australia) was tumbling, uncontrolled, through time and space. It wasn’t supposed to be. It just was. Even