Tim E Koch
Purveyor of Fine Vintage Science Fantasies
Renewing the work of Jules Verne, HG Wells, Edgar Allan Poe,
Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson
Some time after Inspector Newcomen’s strange case concerning Dr Jekyll, the occurrence of a dreadful mental deviancy begins possesses many of the cultivated and sophisticated occupants of London’s West End. For Newcomen and others, it can be no coincidence that…
HG Wells’ means of time travel via a machine that transfers the traveler’s whole body through time is perfectly fine, but a much better way to explore the past and alter history is through the memories of those who’ve lived…
Britain has adopted "transportation" into indentured servitude as a criminal punishment in an effort to reduce the vast number of executions by hanging. Initially, convicts are sent to the Americas and Australia until a crisis of cosmic proportion occurs. When…
Left with certain skills of a supernatural bent from her encounter with the notorious Transylvanian count and her husband confined by the same to the duties of a househusband, Mina Harker hires herself out as an investigator. When the progressive…
In an antient advanced matriarchal society, when the cannibalistic Lord Moloch sets his intensions upon Hadad, the lovely young son of the premier matron of the realm and the most desirable among the consorts thereof, Hadad's automaton companion and crafty…
Rom and Sophie return from their honeymoon to a daunting challenge. Rom's return to London requires a dinner at his club with his two fellow spares with whom he attended school. But one has unleashed an Egyptian demon that eats…
Hoping to impart greater social skills upon its premier simulacrum, the British Admiralty commissions a new engine for the automatized commander, but the engine exceeds all expectation, imparting upon the captain's innerworkings a passionate love of art, an excessive appreciation…
The E stands for Engelbert, which was my dad’s first name. He didn’t have a middle name, perhaps because because he was born at the onset of the Great Depression and even names were scarce. His next older sibling was George Valentine Koch, quite an eloquent name, I think, but the youngest was simply Engelbert.
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