Welcome aboard the Athena’s Horn! Relive those thrilling days of neveryear with the monthly adventures of Captain Samantha Smith and her enchanting sister Laura. Join them as they sail from Florida to exotic locations around the world—and beyond! In Roman Year 2652, Samantha and Laura Smith embark on a routine trading voyage to France. But nothing’s ever routine around Captain Sam of the Athena’s Horn. Stop by every month for the latest adventures of Sam and Laura as they explore the known world in the Roman 2650s!
- Riding on the Storm
- Produce ships and sails which can be used in the air of the sky. Then you’ll find men to man them, men not afraid of the vast emptiness of space.—Johannes Kepler
- A Matter of Gravity
- Gravity is a construct which depends heavily on the frame of reference. Gravity does not cause the apple to fall down. Down exists for the apple. —Albert Einstein
- It Came From the Side Of the Ship
- “Light [and heat] are thus demi-etheric, travelling at once in the Ethereal and the Material Planes.—James Clerk Maxwell
- War Powers
- Let them, if they so please, become merchants, barristers, politicians. Let them have a fair field, but let them understand, as the necessary correlative, that they are to have no favor. Let Nature alone sit high above the lists, ‘rain influence and judge the prize.’—T. H. Huxley
- The Spanish-American War
- “We see how we may determine their forms, their distances, their bulk, their motions, but we can never know anything of their chemical or mineralogical structure; and much less, that of organized beings living on their surface.”—August Comte,
- The Owl and the Snake
- “From the earth thou springest, like a cloud of fire. The blue deep thou wingest, and singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.”—Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Maiden, and the Mob Below
- The first to spot the enemy wins!
- The Spoils of War
- These conditions must be such that in the Martian mind there would be one question perpetually paramount to all the local labor, women’s suffrage, and Eastern questions put together—the water question. How to procure water enough to support life would be the great communal problem of the day.—Percival Lowell
- King Solomin’s Mines
- The Curio Shoppe was filled with statues and religious items of Oriental origin, all worked in terra cotta, bronze, jade, or bone, or weaved in tapestry, or painted on silk or paper. The intrigues of China played out in the Shoppe: statues of the Buddha sat serene next to Dao and Confucian epigrams; all watched over by the Celestial Bureaucracy.
- Camp Hayes
- The market was distinguished by two features. It was colorful and noisy and crowded, as most markets are. The smell of fish permeated the air throughout the market stalls, as in any port market. There were many languages shouted and whispered throughout: English, Spanish, and a language neither of the sisters understood but recognized as the indigenous language of Mexican America. But there were no white children and very few white women.
- Bats!
- The lantern’s light sparkled off the dust as the dust settled to the ground. There was no sound of gunfire, and the low rumble had long since died away.
- The Sleeping City
- “I’ve got to resume research on that Hot Bath spell,” muttered Laura.
- Quarter Moon
- “It is always better, when in doubt, to assume that an order is not to be followed,” muttered Laura.
- Mexicha Madness
- As the steamy morning grew to a blistering afternoon, the great cat’s meat was roasted slowly in a makeshift covered pit.
- Thanks for Being With Us!
- Produce ships and sails which can be used in the air of the sky. Then you’ll find men to man them, men not afraid of the vast emptiness of space.—Johannes Kepler
