{"id":8054,"date":"2026-08-27T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2026-08-27T18:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:37:28","slug":"at-ebooks-direct-the-adventure-of-the-lionesss-mane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2026\/08\/27\/at-ebooks-direct-the-adventure-of-the-lionesss-mane\/","title":{"rendered":"At Ebooks Direct: The Adventure of the Lioness’s Mane"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 1895, but not as you know it!<\/h3>\n

The planet Earth experienced its first shattering contact with alien life in the year 1690 AD. Only the inspired genius of Sir Isaac Newton enabled our world to survive the chaos and destruction that followed, and in the subsequent centuries to become part of the interstellar Alliance that protects Earth still.<\/p>\n

Due to Newton’s influence, the metropolis of London eventually became the seat of the Terran planetary government, and of the futuristic high-tech culture that rapidly grew and spread worldwide from the seeds of that remarkably altered seventeenth century. But the modern London of 1895 conceals other distinctions far more unusual and (perhaps) more important.<\/p>\n

One of Earth’s most valuable resources\u2014and, some say, possibly its most extraordinary secret weapon\u2014resides in an ordinary-looking building in a terrace-street of Marylebone. When the police or the authorities can’t help them, Londoners (and beings from far further afield) bring their problems to 221B Baker Street… seeking the unique assistance of two men of note:<\/p>\n