Victorian Airships

[Dave Monroe]

After the invention of the airplane, airships were
largely forgotten by mainstream fiction, and today
appear mainly in historical fiction (such as Len
Deighton's 1987 novel Winter) and alternate history
(particularly the steampunk genre and the work of
Michael Moorcock, most notably The Warlord of the
Air). In his "Anome" trilogy (The Anome aka The
Faceless Man, The Brave Free Men, and The Asutra),
Jack Vance depicts a system of airships tethered to
unmanned monorail dolleys which keep them on fixed
courses.

Various books of alternate history which depict worlds
in which the British Empire survives as a political
entity assume that that would entail also the survival
of the dirigible as the main or only way of travelling
by air. These include the aforementioned The Warlord
of the Air (Michael Moorcock), as well as The Two
Georges (Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss),Great
Work of Time (John Crowley), The Peshawar Lancers
(S.M. Stirling) and At the Narrow Passage (Richard C.
Meredith)....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airships_in_culture

--- Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Frank Reade´s Victorian Airships:
> 
> http://www.bigredhair.com/airships/index.html


 
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