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Cover art for Magebane!

Just got this today: the cover art for Magebane, the first fantasy novel by my alter ego Lee Arthur Chane. It’s by Paul Young (and you can see more of his artwork here). The cover blurb will change slightly, because in the course of revisions that reference to “four centuries” became “eight centuries,” but otherwise, …

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Airships, airships, airships!

I’ve blogged before about my fondness for airships. Popular Mechanics has a roundup of some of the latest developments, should you share my odd obsession. (Via Instapundit.)

Airships, airships, airships!

I’ve blogged before about my fondness for airships. Popular Mechanics has a roundup of some of the latest developments, should you share my odd obsession. (Via Instapundit.)

Engines? We don’t need no steenkin’ engines…

Behold the pedal-powered blimp. (Via Tobias Buckell.)

This looks like a century-old headline:

“By airship to the North Pole — Zeppelin expedition will survey sea ice in the Arctic.“ But it’s not.

A different kind of airship…

…but still an airship (I guess): the M.A.R.S. Floating Wind Generator (which, despite its name, does not generate wind, but rather electricity. Go figure.)

The civilized way to fly

I love airships, and I’m not alone. Award-winning children’s author Kenneth Oppel, for example, obviously loves them: his recent novels Airborn and Skybreaker are set in an alternate world where airships, not airplanes, rule the skies. Canadian science fiction writer Karl Schroeder must love them, too: his novels Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce, …

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The blimp that swims like a fish

I’ve previously mentioned my enchantment with blimps, zeppelins, and other lighter-than-air airships. Now here’s a really cool one: a concept for a blimp that swims through the air like a fish, using artificial muscles.

Airships (1999)

It’s one of the most familiar newsclips of the 20th century: the giant airship Hindenburg approaching the mooring mast in New Jersey, the sudden rush of fire, the announcer choking out “the humanity, the humanity!” as the Hindenburg settles to the ground in flames. Many people think giant, passenger-carrying airships died forever with that crash. …

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