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The Forever Engine by Frank Chadwick England in the future, the year 2018. It all started with a coin, sort of. Not just any old coin mind you but a Roman counterfeit coin. Maybe! Jack Fargo, an American History Professor, and an ex Afghanistan War combatant is called to the United Kingdom to help investigate what is happening. He is a man with a talent, 'an ability to connect the dots.' Unfortunately a gigantic explosion of some sort occurs, a temporal-effect wave, and Jack is is flung back to an alternate past of 1888, right into that 'Indiana Jones type' [exploit]. (Jack's word here was somewhat stronger). Flying machines are ironclads and dirigibles. Mars has been visited since the 18770's and is a source of the material liftwood that assists with flight. Names like Baron Renfrew, Edison and Tesla pop up amongst others. We have a mysterious attractive spy for the French Commune, Gabrielle Courbiere, who is so focused on things that she doe...