The Age of Unreason XIV of France, Emperor Peter the Great of Russia, King Charles XII of Sweden, and Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard. The Age of Unreason The Age of Unreason is a series of four novels written by Gregory Keyes: Its title is a reference to Thomas Paine's treatise "The Age of Reason". The story spans the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, with the action moving between England and France, later involving Russia, Austria, the Republic of Venice, and North America. The author makes use of pseudosciences (scientific alchemy instead of our physics) that were popular at the
Edward Collier (pirate) Edward Collier (pirate) Edward Collier was an English buccaneer who served as Sir Henry Morgan's second-in-command throughout much of his expeditions against Spain during the mid-17th century. In command of one of the ships which took part in Sir Henry Morgan's raid on Portobello in 1668, he was given command of the 34-gun "Oxford" with a commission as a pirate hunter before the end of the year and eventually captured Captain la Veven and his ship, the "Satisfaction." Rejoining Morgan in his later raids on Maracaibo and Gibraltar, Venezuela, an explosion aboard his ship would kill many of the officers