Win an advance copy of MERCURY!

I was thinking of doing a basic names-from-a-hat drawing, but I'm not going to let you off that easy! Oh ho ho. Here's what you've gotta do:

Tell me about your life in 1859.

If you're 18 years old today, imagine you're 18 years old in 1859. If you're 32 today, you're 32 in 1859. What would life be like? You can choose to be historically accurate, you can make it all up, or you can go the randomly-transported-back-in-time route. But you can't be 18 years old on Middle Earth or Krypton. Regular o...