The main character of Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders is a gasbag gremlin, a balloon goose, and an air dog. Cap’n Buckle and his crew live in a post-apocalyptic world of devastation, steam power, and snow—constant snow. Indeed, Richard Ellis Preston’s debut novel is powered by “red hot furnaces and boilers,” sizzling … Continue reading Faulty Memories of a Time Long Past: A Conversation with Richard Ellis Preston, Jr. by Jeremy L. C. Jones