Space 1889: Red Devils

audio drama written by Jonathan Clements

"inspired"
- Starburst

"a ripping yarn, and no mistake"
- The Alien Online

"a period space opera of epic proportions, with enough action and drama for a blockbuster film"
-Dreamwatch

"a delightful homage to the golden age of adventure fiction... a rip-roaring steampunk soap opera, a scientific romance in the truest sense of the term"
- Sci Fi Dimensions

"a superb script, wonderful direction, atmospheric sound design… Red Devils kicks off the series with aplomb… treat yourself"
- The Asylum

"a successful fusion of HG Wells and the Mars dramas of the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs… nicely captures the vernacular of the period"
- SFX

When Noise Monster productions bought the rights to make a series of audio plays based on Frank Chadwick's Space 1889, they hired me to write the first. My job in Red Devils was to set the tone, introduce the characters that other writers would be playing with, and give as much background information as possible without interfering with the story. It was a great chance to experiment with the idea of "scientific romance", and to write dialogue for Victorians, an eloquent bunch rarely encountered in other audio work. If I have any regrets, it was that I didn't have twice as much running time to play with: Victorian sentences aren't quite as terse as ours.

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Destination Mars!

In 1889, the ether ship Perbindesh approaches the red planet, her passengers an assembly of the great and the good. Skerrun, a Martian princeling, returning from a sojourn on Earth; Henry Routledge, the new governor of the British colony. Professor Golightly, a renowned authority on the red planet. But everyone has a secret. The Perbindesh carries a cargo of conspiracy and intrigue. And not all aboard will live to see Mars…

The game's afoot, and it is the greatest game of all!

Everything Jules Verne should have written. Everything H.G. Wells could have written. Everything Arthur Conan Doyle thought of, but never published - because it was too fantastic.