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1 o'clock, February 1, 2005

David Levine spotted Sherwood Smith’s very nice review of All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories over at SF Site:

For many more than I, blimps — zeppelins — evoke science fiction of the 30s: death rays, evil Nazi scientists, manly two-fisted heroes, all of them racing about a landscape done in Art Deco, until World War II ended both the zeps and that golden, curiously innocent, age of heroic fantasy.

Several of the stories in All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories try to recapture that spirit, and a couple spoof it. The rest of the stories range in amazing variety, tone, and idea. The two shared elements are zeppelins in some form, and strong writing. Some are idea stories, some character, many are both. And what zeps! At least two stories feature live ones. Flying cities, balloons that attract ghosts, pirate airships — the breadth of vision represented by these authors completely disproves the idea that one-idea anthologies don’t work. This one takes off and soars.

Go team!

Comments

What a great review. Made my day.

—— JeremyT, 2:13 PM, Tuesday, February 1, 2005

What Eric said! (But not Jeremy, just to be mysterious).

—— Robert Burke Richardson, 12:07 AM, Thursday, February 3, 2005