R. A. Lafferty 
Annals of Klepsis [EPUB ebook] 

OH COME TO KLEPSIS TO CLAIM YOUR SHARE … AND BREATHE THE RANK AND LAWLESS AIR!Plots and intrigues and romances abound.Smoke pictures, ghosts and treasure chests to be found.Magnifying monocles and hallucinogenic grapes – the unvoiced dreams of the dregs of space.Long John Tony Tyrone, the peg-legged historian, journeys here…And marries a princess with rainbow hair.But the Ghost of Christopher Brannagan will not rest Until mathematician Aloysius has put to the test His theory concerning the Doomsday Equation Which might save the plane from total devastation.Or might not.