For those new to the Holly universe, I named the character after Holly Jahangiri (the real one). The fictional Holly is a native resident of the planet Llannonn, whose natives are obsessed with English-language Earth literature. Some of them memorize texts of books they particularly…

This is a bit from one of the few Steampunk(ish) stories in my science fiction short story collection, OTHER EARTH, OTHER STARS. In it, three friends of questionable intelligence decide to recreate the Three Men in a Boat’s trip up the Thames, but go in…