And Now for Something Completely Different

About this story

And Now for Something Completely Different takes the Christmas expedition beyond the historians' usual destinations. A discovery in a fire bucket suggests that a pod might be capable of reaching Mars.

Max and her colleagues then become involved in somebody else's unauthorised festive journey, with spacesuits suddenly more relevant than their normal historical preparations.

Our view: the attraction is the change of destination and ownership. Readers who enjoy seeing the institute's habits applied to unfamiliar problems have a clear reason to pick this short adventure: even the team's traditional Christmas transgression belongs to someone else this time.

The ebook is sold individually and the story is included in Long Story Short. Follow the site's suggested sequence after An Argumentation of Historians, near The Steam-Pump Jump. Zara Ramm narrates the separate UK unabridged recording, which lasts 1 hour 54 minutes.

A collection reading offers the chance to combine this spaceward detour with the surrounding historical stories.