Inspirations for the Chums of Chance

[Dave Monroe]

See, e.g., ...

"Moorcock—-or some ghostly afflatus of Moorcock now so
widely disseminated through the field that his name
can easily be forgotten—-is perhaps the main figure
here. We're thinking of his Airship Boys tales ..."

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/column/sfw14197.html

Michael Moorcock. The Warlord of the Air
NY -- Daw Books -- 1971, 1978
A world where the airship rules instead of the
airplane. Fictionally proports to be a lost manuscript
written in 1903 by Mr. Moorcock's grandfather which he
has published.

http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/airship/fiction.htm

Warlord of the Air

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

Beale, Charles Willing. The Secret of the Earth. New
York: Arno Press, 1975. Originally published: 1899.

Two brothers fly into the hollow earth on a homemade
airship. They enter through the North Pole and exit
from the South Pole....

http://www.antarctic-circle.org/fauno.htm

The Secret of the Earth by Charles Willing Beale 
(1899)---perhaps first to use aircraft through a polar
opening, surface folks are descendants from exiles
from below

http://www.bouncepage.com/Pellucidar/hollow.html

The Secret of the Earth, Charles Beale, 1899. Financed
by a being from the inner world, Guthrie and Torrence
Attlebridge, co-inventors of the airplane, travel
north to the Pole and enter the interior of the earth.
Here they find roofless houses and a city of white and
gold, a paradise that was man's 1st home.

http://www.trivia-library.com/a/inside-planet-earth-science-fiction-ideas-on-the-center-of-the-earth-part-2.htm

  	
Beale, Charles Willing

THE SECRET OF THE EARTH

The Secret of the Earth combines several themes common
to turn of the century science fiction: the inner
Earth theory, anti-gravity devices, and the use of the
lost manuscript device to lend credence to the story.
Two American brothers, Torrence and Guthrie
Attlebridge, journey to Britain to seek financing for
their new anti-gravity airship, which they intend to
use in exploring the mysteries of the North Pole.
After finding sufficient financial help to build the
craft, they set sail on a northward course, and
discover an unknown sea, beyond which lies the
entrance to the strange world inside the Earth. Here
they find a vast fortune in treasure, great ruins, and
many other relics of an ancient lost civilization. The
primitive remnants of this dying people believe the
two explorers to be gods, and give them a royal
welcome. Continuing their journey, the Attlebridges
are forced to cross a deadly ocean of fire, and must
land their damaged airship on a barren desert nearby.
They arc rescued by huge, roc-like birds directed by a
group of mysterious old men inhabiting a desert
monastery. With the help of the giant birds the
brothers repair their ship, and leave the inner world
through its South Polar opening. Shortly thereafter,
their craft fails again, and they find themselves
marooned on an unknown island in the South Pacific.
Hoping they will be rescued, they write the story of
their incredible adventures on their remaining paper,
and seal it into a cask which is cast into the ocean.

http://www.ayerpub.com/Product.asp?ProductID=4400000018047&Res=T

AIRSHIP BOYS
By H.L. Sayler

This eight volume series was published by Reilly &
Britton between 1909 and 1915. The final volume was
written by De Lysle F. Cass.

http://www.seriesbooks.com/airshipboys.htm

H. L. Sayler's "Airship Boys" series was one of the
more sophisticated juvenile fantastic flight
series....

http://www.violetbooks.com/gal-flight.html

Sayler, H. L. THE AIRSHIP BOYS; or, The Quest of the
Aztec Treasure. Chicago: Reilly & Brittons, 1909.

Sayler, H. L. THE AIRSHIP BOYS ADRIFT; or, Saved by
Aeoroplane. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1909.
Previously unknown pyramid builders in Central
America.

http://www.violetbooks.com/lostrace-check6.html

Airship Boys. The Airship Boys were created by H.L.
Sayler and appeared in the "Airship Boys" series,
beginning with The Airship Boys; or, The Quest of the
Aztec Treasure (1909) and running through seven more
novels. The Airship Boys were Ned Napier and Alan
Hope, a pair of boy geniuses from Chicago. They are,
of course, highly interested in creating airship, and
they do, following which, with their friend the
newspaper reporter Robert Russell, they go on
adventures, variously seeking and finding Aztec
treasure (and a lost race of pyramid builders to go
with it), setting airspeed and duration records, and
flying New York to London nonstop. Their airships
begin as dirigibles and move on to things like gas
powered controlled explosion motors and then a
propellor engine fueled with "sulfuric ether" capable
of reaching very high altitudes and 800 mph.

http://www.geocities.com/jjnevins/pulpsa.html

On the Authorship of 'As It Is Written'
Douglas A. Anderson

In 1982 Donald M. Grant published a novelette entitled
As It Is Written, with its authorship credited to
Clark Ashton Smith. Found in the files for the
never—published December 1, 1919 issue of The Thrill
Book (a magazine which had previously published a
Smith poem), the story was bylined "De Lysle Ferree
Cass". The attribution of authorship to Smith was
based on stylistic similarities and circumstantial
evidence.

But since 1982 further evidence has cone to light that
would suggest otherwise. For it has been discovered
that this De Lysle Ferree Cass also authored other
works, some highly unlike Smith's. These include one
full—length, book and six additional stories (some
very long); and it has furthermore been discovered
that Cass wrote (or planned to write) two other items,
for which copyright was filed at the Copyright Office
in Washington. D.C.

Cass's book was part of a juvenile series, on the
"Airship Boys", and was entitled The Airship Boys in
the Great War; or. The Rescue of Bob Russell.
Published in 1915, by the Chicago firm Reilly &
Brirton, it was the last title in a multi—volume
series. Most of the series had been written by H. L.
Sayler. under his own name and under pseudonyms.
(Interestingly. Sayler wrote another series on the
"Aeroplane Boys" for the same publisher, under the
name Ashton Lamar.) But Sayler died in 1913; a few
further of his "Airship Boys" books cane out, followed
by the Cass book, and with it the series ended....

http://www.eldritchdark.com/articles/criticism/32/on-the-authorship-of-'as-it-is-written'

And see as well ...

Into the Heart of the World After Andrae
The Chicago Tribune ~ October 3, 1909

http://www.erbzine.com/mag14/1448.html

Thanks.  I may mot have gotten all too far in the
novel so far, but I sure as hell have a running head
start on hosting that very first chapter. Thanks again
...

--- Sterling Clover <s.clover at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... I'm starting to wonder if there's a particular
> source that's even closer to the material ...


 
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