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An exciting debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Air travel is an epic historical illusion set in a World War I-era America where powerful and technology have combined into a single extraordinary skill. "Like his characters, Tom Miller casts a spell." (Matthew Pearl, writer of The Dante Golf club and The Previous Bookaneer) Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical viewpoint - an arcane, female-dominated branch of technology used to summon the blowing wind, form clouds of smoke cigarettes, heal the damaged, and even travel. Though he dreams of fighting in the fantastic War as the first men in the top notch US Sigilry Corps Save and Evacuation Service - a team of soaring medics - Robert is resigned to blending batches of philosophical chemicals and keeping the catalogs for the family business in rural Montana, where his mother, a former soldier and vigilante, supports the locals. When a dangerous accident sets his philosophical skills to the test, Robert rises to the occasion and wins a scholarship to review at Radcliffe School, an all-women's university. At Radcliffe, Robert hones his skills and strives to gain the admiration of his classmates, a bunch of formidable, unruly women. Robert falls hard for Danielle Hardin, a disillusioned young war hero turned politics radical. However, Danielle's activism and Robert's recklessness get the attention of the same fanatical antiphilosophical group that Robert's mother fought years before. With their lives in mounting hazard, Robert and Danielle group as well as a team of unlikely heroes to battle for Robert's place among the next generation of empirical philosophers - as well as for philosophy's very success resistant to the men who would demolish it. In the custom of Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness, Tom Miller creates with unrivaled imagination, ambition, and humor. The Philosopher's Air travel is both a fantastical reimagining of American record and a beautifully composed coming-of-age story for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.
