The Evil Genius of Venus: Book Two: The Daemon Doctor

Sydney Westerfield has taken up her post as Governess, at Mount Morven House - a research establishment in Caithness where a vital secret experiment is underway. She is to tutor Kitty, the daughter of Herbert Linley and his wife Catherine, while they and Herbert's brother Professor Randal work on the Linley Process - a means of converting normal matter to the 'dark-matter' antigravity material that has taken humanity to the planets. But unknown to Sydney, the core of their machine is one of the cursed gems, whose history is so entangled in hers - and the hand of Valdavor Va - the Evil Genius Of Venus - is stretching out to grasp it!

Simon Bucher-Jones is a novelist, poet, and artist. This is a book in his First Ether series, which reimagines 19th century classics in a world where the solar system was explored in the 18th and 19th century, using a technology now lost. In this volume he is collaborating with Wilkie Collins, the secret history of whose novel "The Evil Genius" can now be revealed.