This autobiographical account traces the author's journey from a "learning disabled" child to a successful author, pundit, and software engineer. It allows the reader to see classroom education from the point of view of one of the many "abnormal" kids who are demonstrably bright but dysfunctional in the classroom. It's also a story of a kid who wanted to learn about computers about ten years before the school system was prepared to teach anything on the subject.

A young lady with a head for invention, a boy with a gift for sorcery, and a rotting corpse with a dry sense of humor all find themselves fighting against a strange new threat in Victorian-era London.