Timeline (there is none)

Robert Louis Stevenson, whose work is so essential to the Buchmannverse, was of later vintage than the other authors I've drawn from. In fact, he was the reason I seriously considered never writing the first story at all. But it rattled around in my mind, bothering me so much that eventually I threw real time out the window. Dr. B says the 19th century seems "compressed and accelerated", and that's how I'm treating it. Just think of it as Old Timeyness.

(At left is RLS and his wife, Fanny, in the chair, wearing a sari -- portrait by John Singer Sargent.)