Polly Shulman explores subjects ranging from infinity and edible jellyfish to planets and circuses in her writing. Her work has been featured in publications like The New York Times and Science. A Yale alumna with a background in mathematics, she is drawn to forgotten books and their frontispieces. This fascination dates back to her youth, when she was entrusted with a key to a special materials storage cage at the New York Public Library.
The basement of the New York Circulating Material Repository is home to the mysterious Wells Bequest - powerful objects straight out of science fiction. Robots, rockets, submarines, a shrink ray - and a very famous time machine. And Leo Novikov is about to discover them all . . .
In downtown Manhattan there's a very special place. It might not look like much from the outside but if you enter and make your way down to the basement, you'll find something so amazing you won't believe your eyes. The Grimm Collection. It's mysterious and powerful, and in the wrong hands could be devastating . . .