sometimes a zeppelin IS just a zeppelin

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Got two short-story collections earlier this week.

Anthology All-star Zeppelin Adventure Stories was published by Wheatland Press in 2004. Edited by David Moles & Jay Lake, this anthology features original tales that, if I remember correctly a review in Locus, are homages to pulp adventures where the common setting is... Can you guess?... Zeppelins. This is a subject that has interested me since I drove thru Oregon's Tillamook in the early Nineties and found myself visiting their Air Museum, inside a dirigible hangar from WWii. Let's put it this way. Those hangars are huge.

Still, it had been two years since I had read about that book, and had never gotten around to buying it. But I was put in the mood for it in May 2006, when I came across the blog of Kaja Foglio (1), who mentionned being in the middle of reading Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales. Published by Heliograph this very month, it reprints Dent's zeppelin-involving adventures that he wrote in the Thirties before going on to become famous as the creator of Doc Savage. I particularly like the capsule synopsis for story Blackbeard's Spectre:

"...Zeppelin pirates steal the passenger dirigible City of Oakland before its maiden flight!..."

I was also quite amused by the book having a warning like they do for TV shows. It got its DLV rating because, and I quote...

This book contains:
- offensive language concerning race, religion and national origin;
- graphic descriptions of violence;
- depictions and descriptions of legal and illegal drug use.

Sounds like fun.

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(1) Co-author with her hubby Phil of the adventures of Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius. The tales, which can be found on their site, are set in an alternate 19th Century and feature, yes, zeppelins. And robots. And genetically engineered humans. And mutant talking cats.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oakland?! Oh, snap! I'm just across the bay! Perhaps seventy-odd years late, but still!

Run!!!

-Scorby