Folio 4: Stars of a Type

By N Ponders and Vivian St. Clair

In this folio, the space-time machine, METIS, carries us off to Delaware where we meet astronomer Annie Jump Cannon. Join Vivian and Elliot St. Clair as they unravel more 19th century mysteries, and encounter new and intriguing aspects of space and time travel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: N Ponders
• Release date: Apr 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310537622

N Ponders

Born and bred with a love of language, N Ponders went on to get a Bachelor's degree in English and Linguistics.N Ponders lives with zer family. Ze spends zis free time--when it can be found--creating fantastical stories, learning languages, creating artwork in all forms, gardening, and spending time remodeling zer house in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America. Ze is an avid gardener and wildcrafter. Zis favorite use for the internet is preserving herbal, and other, lore.Although ze has been writing since ze was a child, ze started the stories of The Caillte Cycle when in zer mid-teens, and has been writing sci-fi, fantasy, poetry and children's lit ever since.My pronouns are ze/zim/zer or they/them.

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Steampunk Serials

Folio, the fourth: Stars of a Type

By N Ponders and

Vivian St. Clair

This work is fictitious. Any resemblance to persons, characters or situations, real or imagined, is purely coincidental.

Cover art and internal illustrations by N Ponders.

© Copyright 2022 N Ponders

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Dedication

This folio is dedicated to Raymielle.

~ Prologue ~

Explanation of What Follows

Hello. My name is Vivian St. Clair. I have a twin brother named Elliot. As this story begins, we are fifteen.

If you have read the Folio, the First, then you may wish to skip ahead to Chapter 1, since the rest of this prologue will be very familiar to you.

This story starts in 1844, in our flat in London, England at 13 Ash Lane. But you will learn more about that as you continue to read.

Much has happened and much has changed since I first wrote my journals so many years ago. Times are very different now. I have since gone back and re-read my journals, and put each one in terms of a folio, to make them better understood, and to fill in a few blanks from my memory. What follows here is a folio based on my original journal, which is slightly less