- Taschenbuch: 160 Seiten
- Verlag: Heliograph Inc (1. Juni 2006)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1930658206
- ISBN-13: 978-1930658202
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,6 x 18,9 x 0,9 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.787.208 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Lester Dent penned many pulp adventures before he created Doc Savage in 1933 under the house name Kenneth Robeson. Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales collects five airship-themed stories published from 1930 to 1932, and includes material restored from Dent's original manuscripts! "Zeppelin Bait": Jed Day, American Great War flyer, is framed for spying for a notorious German Zeppelin Captain! Originally published in the October 1932 issue of Sky Birds. "Blackbeard's Spectre": Zeppelin pirates steal the passenger dirigible City of Oakland before its maiden flight to Japan! One of Dent's first published works, it originally appeared as "The Thirteen Million Dollar Robbery" in the March 1930 issue of The Popular Magazine. "Peril's Domain": Bill Kirgan battles a pirate band on a Zeppelin en route to the Arctic! Originally published under the title "The Frozen Flight" in the February 1931 issue of Air Stories. "Helene Was A Cannibal": What menaces the flight of Germany's newest Zeppelin, the Vaterland? Originally published as "Teeth of Revenge" in the May 1931 issue of Scotland Yard. "A Billion Gold!": A private dick gets mixed up in a Zeppelin-sized scheme in New York City! Originally published as "One Billion-Gold!" in the June 1931 issue of Scotland Yard. Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales is nearly 100,000 words of pulpy goodness!
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Lester Dent penned many pulp adventures before he created Doc Savage in 1933 under the house name Kenneth Robeson. Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales collects five airship-themed stories published from 1930 to 1932, and includes material restored from Dent's original manuscripts! "Zeppelin Bait": Jed Day, American Great War flyer, is framed for spying for a notorious German Zeppelin Captain! Originally published in the October 1932 issue of Sky Birds. "Blackbeard's Spectre": Zeppelin pirates steal the passenger dirigible City of Oakland before its maiden flight to Japan! One of Dent's first published works, it originally appeared as "The Thirteen Million Dollar Robbery" in the March 1930 issue of The Popular Magazine. "Peril's Domain": Bill Kirgan battles a pirate band on a Zeppelin en route to the Arctic! Originally published under the title "The Frozen Flight" in the February 1931 issue of Air Stories. "Helene Was A Cannibal": What menaces the flight of Germany's newest Zeppelin, the Vaterland? Originally published as "Teeth of Revenge" in the May 1931 issue of Scotland Yard. "A Billion Gold!": A private dick gets mixed up in a Zeppelin-sized scheme in New York City! Originally published as "One Billion-Gold!" in the June 1931 issue of Scotland Yard. Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales is nearly 100,000 words of pulpy goodness!
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I'll give it four stars (with a wink and a smile).
13. Januar 2008
Format:Taschenbuch
I should probably wait to write this because there are five stories in this book and I've only read the first two, but, first, I think I have the flavor of the work, and, second, this sort of thing is best in small doses spaced over a long period of time. I expect I will get to the others one at a time when the mood strikes me. Delightfully clunky writing, with over the top caricatures, and long, adjective and adverb laden run-on sentences that have to be seen to be believed --but it's fun! Action paced, somewhat discombobulated adventure stories where midway through the evil sky-pirates capture the zeppelin, leaving our hero in a bind, to say the least, and five pages later after a couple fistfights, a clevery ploy and a failed romance, our hero now finds himself running through a south sea jungle pursued by hungry cannibals pulling the professor's daughter by the hand as he goes (of course, she does not yet love him, but she is, of course, suffering under the lies the sky-pirates told her after he hid his true identity so that he could later foil their plans.) It's tough to rate this, and to be honest at times I found the writing style and convoluted action a bit confusing, and had to turn back a page and start over, but if you are looking for a collection of real, 1930s, thrilling, unpolished, hack-pulp fiction involving zeppelins then this is exactly what you'll get in this volume.
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Kudos to Zeppelin Tales
9. Januar 2008
Format:Taschenbuch
The father of Doc Savage shows his pulp flexability with Zeppelin Tales. Here are 5 tales of high, no pun intended, adventure. A thrill ride from the first page to the last.
I highly recommend it.
I highly recommend it.
All action, all zeppelin!
3. April 2012
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While Lester Dent's belated fame rests squarely on the broad bronze shoulders of Doc Savage, it should noted that in the pulp era he was one of the most prolific -- and one of the best -- adventure writers of his time. He had the ability to hang a pulse-pounding top-notch fists-flying tale around even the slimmest of ideas. Here collected are some great actioners that involve rigid airships, an idea that was already on the wane (before the nail was pounded into the coffin at Lakehurst, M.J.) in Dent's time. In our time, the zeppelin has become a metaphor for ages lost and better histories that might have been, and Dent's tales supremely capture and feed our cultural longing. Anyone who loves the Doc Savage stories (remember, he had his own airship stored in the New York City waterfront warehouse of the Hildalgo Trading Company)will certainly enjoy these other adventure tales woven on the loom of Dent's imagination.
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