Steampunková novela, kterou zatím nikdo nenapsal

Což je škoda:

Predating the launch of Sputnik by over a century, President Taylor’s task force, consisting of civil engineers and frontiersmen, constructs a rocket in the Californian wilderness, equips its payload with the most powerful camera known to humankind at the time - endowed with revolutionary colour-capturing capacity - and launches it skyward from the slopes of Mount Whitney.

Strange Maps: The First Satellite Map of California (1851)