Michael Tierney: 4 books

Nicodemus Boffin rose from a boyhood in the ash heaps of East London to reach the pinnacles of British science when he is mentored by the great scientist, Michael Faraday. When he finds a secret laboratory notebook in which Faraday has described incomprehensible experiments, Nicodemus wonders if his...

Professor Nicodemus Boffin, late of the University of Edinburgh and protégé of the great Michael Faraday, serves as the Scientist General of a semi-secret British institute to further scientific knowledge and technological advancement for Queen, Country, and Empire. Boffin and his crew travel the...

A prologue comes before the formal chapters of a novel, and generally sets a scene, introduces some important characters, or reveals a theme whose importance will become apparent later in the story. My novel "To Rule the Skies" already has a prologue, but this story takes place chronologically immediately...

Charles Darwin, one of Britain’s most famous and certainly most controversial scientists, has a puzzle.  How is it that cultures all over the world have ancient myths of dragons? Could dragons have once lived alongside ancient man?  Could dragons still exist? Professor Nicodemus Boffin...