![]() ![]() At Radcliffe, Robert hones his skills and strives to win the respect of his classmates, a host of formidable, unruly women. When a deadly accident puts his philosophical abilities to the test, Robert rises to the occasion and wins a scholarship to study at Radcliffe College, an all-women's school. Though he dreams of becoming the first male to join the elite US Sigilry Corps Rescue and Evacuation Service-a team of flying medics-Robert is resigned to mixing batches of philosophical chemicals and keeping the books for the family business in rural Montana, where his mother, a former soldier and vigilante, aids the locals. A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America where magic and science have blended into a single extraordinary art.Įighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy-an mysterious, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal the injured, and even fly. ![]()
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