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Available Now: Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales

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, and is available now as a PDF from e23. You can buy the print version of Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales from Amazon.com, which usually discounts our books at 34% off, or you can special order it from your local bookshop: just tell them it is available from Ingram or Baker & Taylor in the US or Blackwell's or Bertram's in the UK.

What Is The Zeppelin Age?

The Zeppelin Age helps you create role playing adventures set in the early 20th century, when airships roamed the skies. It will be available from Heliograph.

The Zeppelin Age will give you great tools to create everything you need for a pulp era game, from exciting characters to weird menaces to gizmos to gigantic dirigibles. The mechanics of the game are fast and flexible, allowing you to concentrate on role playing adventure.

So When Are You Releasing It?

We originally advertised Zeppelin Age as a 2002 release. We still haven't released it. Rather than make further promises we may not keep, we will not announce a release date for Zeppelin Age until the book is completed and ready to go to press. We'll have a one month window between completion of the book and the official street date.

Can You Tell Me Anything Else?

While we can't spill a release date for books after Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales, we can tell you we have completed covers for seven more books, and six of those books will contain role playing game material. Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales does not: it only contains fiction.

We can also say that the Director's Screen is printed and in our hands, as are the Zeppelin Age DECO dice and Blimp Tokens. Those will be available individually or as part of a box set at upcoming conventions.

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Last Updated Tuesday, 12-Aug-2008 19:58:55 PDT