Five Weeks in a Balloon Chapter 21

Off on a Comet Book 2 Chapter 6

In which the travellers find themselves negotiating with the shrewd Isaac Hakkabut for the use of a delicate steelyard and exact coinage, needed for precise measurements upon their extraordinary voyage. Despite the miserly merchant’s reluctance and cunning haggling, a deal is struck amid humorous and tense exchanges, revealing the peculiar economics aboard their drifting world.

Off on a Comet Book 2 Chapter 5

In which the inhabitants of Gallia, their lives unfolding amid the curious conditions of an interplanetary voyage, attend to the professor’s plans to measure their comet’s physical properties using a steelyard, though they find themselves lacking some necessary instruments. Amidst the biting cold and the peculiar shifting of their vessels encased in ice, a small party sets out through the frost-bound landscape to procure equipment from the reclusive astronomer Isaac Hakkabut’s tartan.

Off on a Comet Book 2 Chapter 4

In which the colonists on the comet Gallia adjust to their extraordinary new circumstances amidst bitter cold and an unchanging sky, while the professor devotes himself to rigorous astronomical studies and the creation of a novel calendar to measure their strange journey. Meanwhile, the small community navigates the challenges of survival and governance, their curiosity and anxieties entwined in their tentative life on this distant celestial body.

Off on a Comet Book 2 Chapter 3

In which the learned Professor Palmyrin Rosette recounts his solitary observations of a mysterious celestial body—a comet he dubs Gallia—that culminated in its fateful collision with the Earth, separating a fragment of the Balearic Archipelago and altering their cosmic destinies. Amidst scientific exposition and gentle banter, the company learns of the comet’s revised orbit and the uncertain future that awaits them as it becomes a periodic wanderer of the heavens.

Off on a Comet Book 2 Chapter 1

In which a small company of unfortunates, stranded upon a mysterious fragment, strive to revive the eccentric astronomer Professor Palmyrin Rosette, whose cryptic utterance “My comet!” spurs them to question the true nature of their celestial predicament. As they ponder his tarnished genius and examine his intricate cometary calculations, these survivors begin to suspect that a collision with a comet forged their strange new world, setting the stage for extraordinary revelations yet to come.