Dr Dee features as a main protagonist in my novel The Blade in the Angel's Shadow, the catalyst for all that happens to Lament and Pieter. But his real life as the astrologer/advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, and one of the leading mathematicians, mages, and astronomers of his age is an adventure in its own right.

For your delectation, here is a brief fly by of the life of this extraordinary man who first created the idea of the British Empire and worked tirelessly towards that aim with the aid, so he claimed, of the angels themselves.