WATERMAN: a Turn-of-the Century Toughs series ¶ By Dusk Peterson

How can a youth from a bay island boarding school survive when he is sent to a futuristic prison?

Waterman is a historical fantasy series and retrofuture series inspired by the Chesapeake Bay oyster wars, boarding school rivalries in the 1910s, and 1960s visions of things to come.

The series is part of the Turn-of-the-Century Toughs cycle. ¶ Waterman genre/theme tags (with minor spoilers).

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SERIES CONTENTS

Waterman: a Turn-of-the-Century Toughs omnibus of historical fantasy and retrofuture science fiction. Collects three stories in the series.
Master and Servant: The Abolitionist | The True Master | Unmarked.
Side stories: Queue.
Maps and series resources.
Reviews (separate page).

Waterman: a Turn-of-the-Century Toughs omnibus of historical fantasy and retrofuture science fiction

This omnibus contains The True Master, Unmarked, and Queue.

The omnibus does not contain The Abolitionist.

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Master and Servant (Volume 1 of Waterman)

Born into a society with a strictly ranked system of masters and servants, Carr has sought to tread his way delicately between the clashing values of the parents who raised him and the uncle whose household Carr will one day live in. Yet when he and other students at his boarding school become the latest participants in an ongoing battle between the oystermen of their Bay, Carr finds that his position of power may bring danger, not only to himself, but also to a schoolfellow he is drawn toward.

VOLUME CONTENTS

The Abolitionist. When a foul-mouthed, seditious foreigner turns up at your door, what are the benefits of letting him in?

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The True Master. An interlude, flashing back to six tri-centuries before the beginning of Master and Servant: In a society where the rank of master or slave defines every aspect of a person's being, what do you do when you're a master and you envy your slaves?

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Unmarked. "Fair play" is the motto of the Third House at Narrows School, but that motto takes on a different meaning when a lonely member of the Third House is secretly wooed by a young man from a rival House.

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Master and Servant: Historical Note and Acknowledgments.

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Side stories

Queue. Depositing money in the bank was always the worst problem.

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Maps and series resources

Map of the Midcoast nations (Mip, the Dozen Landsteads, Vovim, and Yclau).

Turn-of-the-Century Toughs, a cycle of historical fantasy novels that includes the Waterman series. This page includes resources such as a chronology of major political events in the cycle.

Waterman research. Blog entries by the author on research for the series. Earlier entries are labelled "Prison City research."

Bibliographies for the series:
Islanders and Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay.
Masculinity, Crime, and Everyday Life in Victorian and Edwardian Times: Boarding Schools.
Retrofuture: Visions of the Future, 1945-1975.

Reviews

Listed on a separate page.

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