![]() ![]() However, the mighty airships are about all the stories have in common, except that Matt could have been a Heinlein juvenile character, if he had been a bit more pragmatic. Heinlein's Job-A Comedy of Justice wherein the story mentions the great airships of Alex Hergesheimer's world. Airborn.Īs I read the story, I was reminded of Robert A. ![]() And he truly is born of the air, as are the ships. Matt, although a fatherless boy with no money or political pull, can by luck and pluck, move his way up, perhaps even to the captainacy of one of these leviathans of the air. Science is progressing, as are social mores and class consciousness. The story seems to take place in either the late 19th or early twentieth century. ![]() Thanks to the discovery of a nonflammable gas lighter than hydrogen, hydrium (never explained in even a psuedoscientific manner, but who knows, maybe it leaks in from a different space-time continuum?) has allowed great Airships to cross the Atlanticus and Pacificus, carrying passengers 600 feet above the waves. ![]() Or spelt, depending.Īirborn details the adventures of Matt Cruse, cabin boy on the Airship Aurora. Only, in this case, the author isn't British, he's Canadian. This too is the first American publication of a book that did extremely well in the UK. Mortal Engines was an excellent "Young Adult" book, but now, I've found another, also from EOS. Last week, I told you of a find from EOS Books, a division of Harper-Collins. ![]()
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