Hero of the Rebellion (2nd Class)

Airships over Africa

Hearts and Flowers

Lightning Bridge

SMS

A Short History of Magic

Stone and Shadows

The Cassandra Effect

Damien D'Eath

The Last Asteroid

The Lottery Winner's Lair

The Pink Room

The Voyage of the Ice Clipper

Observatory Mount

...Then a Miracle Occurs

Time Out of Place

The Steam Road

Hero of the Rebellion (2nd Class)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Clockwork Cabaret

Camera Obscura

Imperial Lifeblood

African Designs

Garden at the End of the Universe

Door Bell

Consolidation Earth

Gods and Daemons

Heros come in all shapes and sizes, and not all are heros for the reasons you might think. Or even for the side you might think.

After the war is lost and won, and the desperate actions of war retreat in the public eye, from daily news headlines to the memories of old men, there will always be those who reconsider their decisions made in the heat of the moment and reflect on whether they made the right choice.

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This story is set in the universe introduced in The Last Asteroid and occurs during the events described in The Voyage of the Ice Clipper.

I have also completed two more sequels called Time Out of Place and Consolidation Earth.

I am now working on new tales in the same sequence entitled Garden at the End of the Universe and Gods and Daemons.

I'm rather taken with this series. It's already taken on something of a life of its own, it seems, and I'm beginning to suspect there are yet more stories to come.

In the days of the USSR, there really were medals with an explicit "second class" status - and even a third class! For example, the Order of Glory. There was also a Hero of the Soviet Union medal, although this was not awarded in multiple classes.

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