"If you're looking for a good adventure story with all the best elements of classic pulp, along with dashing Heroes, women with agency, a little romance, and a whole lot of suspense then this is the book for you! Couldn't stop until I'd read the last page, and you won't be able to either." - Trish Heinrich,Author of The Vigilantes Trilogy“Airship Daedalus is a fantastic throwback to the days of high-action pulp fiction and weekly comic strips filled with intriguing plots, sharp heroes, andmysterious villains.” -Matt Forbeck,Author of Mutant Chronicles, Brave New World,The Avengers Encyclopedia, and Halo: New Blood April, 1925 finds ace pilot Jack McGraw fleeing hostile fighter planes and a mysterious zeppelin over the skies of New Jersey. Then a woman from his past invites him to dinner at Thomas Edison’s home and drafts him into the A.E.G.I.S. foundation.And that’s just Monday.Jack’s mission is to fly an experimental aircraft and lead a crew consisting of his comrades from the Great War against a well-funded secret society bent on pillaging history’s great treasures and amassing dangerous power.Together with their crewmates, Jack McGraw and Dorothy “Doc” Starr encounter sky pirates, Haitian voodoo, terrifying creatures of the deep, an Amazon tree-city, rocket zombies, and an ancient temple where Aleister Crowley attempts to open a dimensional portal and summon a bloodthirsty demon!Based on the Airship Daedalus comic strip by Todd Downing and Brian Beardsley, A Shield Against the Darkness is the origin story of the Daedalus crew, and a prequel to Assassins of the Lost Kingdomby E.J. Blaine.It’s a retro-pulp action yarn in which mages, mad science, secret societies, occult threats, and lost worlds meet globe-trotting, sky-high aerial action and two-fisted heroism, like the pulp novels of old!

A Shield Against the Darkness (Airship Daedalus)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Downing, Todd

Science Fiction

Deep7 Press

April, 1927 finds adventurer-pilot Jack McGraw and occult expert Dorothy "Doc" Starr extracting a priceless Celtic artifact from a long-sealed tomb on a windswept Scottish island.Following a shootout with Silver Star commandos and a desperate dogfight into the eye of a storm, the airship Daedalus limps back to London - only to discover a former crewmate has gone missing, along with his own airship and its crew Using nothing but a few scant clues and their own wits, Jack, Doc and the Daedalus crew must locate the airship Percival and their old friend "Duke", encountering myriad dangers along the way - and culminating in a chaotic battle through ancient ruins beneath the Egyptian desert.Based on the Airship Daedalus comic strip by Todd Downing and Brian Beardsley, The Golden City is book #3 in the Airship Daedalus saga, and a sequel to Assassins of the Lost Kingdom by E.J. Blaine.It's a retro-pulp action yarn in which mages, mad science, secret societies, occult threats, and lost worlds meet globe-trotting, sky-high aerial action and two-fisted heroism, like the pulp novels of old

The Golden City (Airship Daedalus)

Eight authors. Ten stories. A world of possibilities. The AEGISverse just got a lot bigger. Based on the setting and characters of Airship Daedalus, A.E.G.I.S. Tales collects exciting new works of fiction written in the style of the pulps from the 1920s & ‘30s. Thrill to the adventures of stunt pilot Wanda “Wings” Jensen, ghost hunters Jim Holland & Mandy Hart, undead prizefighter John Mabry, The Gunshade - ghostly scourge of the nderworld, psychic detective David Li, secret agent Brandeleine Reed, tech-spy Felix Fogarty, ex-rocketeer Alyssa Swanson, Italian archaeologist Maria Caruso, and South-Central LA whiz kid Ada Mesmer! Enjoy tales of supernatural horror, hard-boiled mystery, super-science, and two-fisted heroic adventure in this anthology of spine-tingling retro pulp fiction!

AEGIS Tales: A Retro Pulp Fiction Anthology (Airship Daedalus)

Literature & Fiction

Fisk, Colin

Pace, R.L.

Stubbs, James

Heinrich, Trish

Clelland, Dave

Dugdale, Ron

Heinrich, Dan

Short Stories & Anthologies

MATURE READERSTHIRTEEN WEIRD AND WONDROUS TALES populate this anthology by the author of the AIRSHIP DAEDALUS pulp adventure series. Spanning a thirty-year catalog and often satirizing the 20th century ideal of the nuclear family and social mores, THIRTEEN WEIRD AND WONDROUS TALES populate this anthology by the author of the Airship Daedalus pulp adventure series. Spanning a thirty-year catalog and often satirizing the 20th century ideal of the nuclear family and social mores, PRIMORDIAL SOUP KITCHEN is a collection of the stranger side of Todd Downing&#697;s short fiction.- Automatons remember an idyllic past that never was.- Ghost hunters track a psychic vampire in 1920s San Francisco.- A family must come to grips with a terrible truth.- Rockabilly zombies cruise the American Southwest in a classic Cadillac.- A Harlem Hellfighter killed at the Western Front is reborn with strange powers.- Four kids investigate a strange disappearance in a small Oregon town in 1982.With elements of horror, science fiction, adventure, humor and retro-futurism-each with an underlying dark streak-this collection is sure to entertain fans of the offbeat and macabre.FOR MATURE READERS"At the end of each story I was left wanting more More of these worlds, more of these characters, just more Haunting, sad, scary and so rich with so few words, you'll read these short stories over and over again."- Trish Heinrichauthor of The Vigilantes Superhero Universe"Stories of ghouls, ghosts and ghastly neighbors glittering with taut prose, sprinkled with humor and pathos. The perfect bite-sized collection for creepy crepuscular reading '."- R.L. Paceauthor of Rising Son

Primordial Soup Kitchen: A Collection of Short Strangeness

April, 1925 finds ace pilot Jack McGraw fleeing hostile fighter planes and a mysterious zeppelin over the skies of New Jersey. Then a woman from his past invites him to dinner at Thomas Edison's home and drafts him into the A.E.G.I.S. foundation.And that's just Monday.Jack's mission is to fly an experimental aircraft and lead a crew consisting of his comrades from the Great War against a well-funded secret society bent on pillaging history's great treasures and amassing dangerous power.Together with their crewmates, Jack McGraw and Dorothy "Doc" Starr encounter sky pirates, Haitian voodoo, terrifying creatures of the deep, an Amazon tree-city, rocket zombies, and an ancient temple where Aleister Crowley attempts to open a dimensional portal and summon a bloodthirsty demon!Based on the Airship Daedalus comic strip by Todd Downing and Brian Beardsley, A Shield Against the Darkness is the origin story of the Daedalus crew, and a prequel to Assassins of the Lost Kingdomby E.J. Blaine.It's a retro-pulp action yarn in which mages, mad science, secret societies, occult threats, and lost worlds meet globe-trotting, sky-high aerial action and two-fisted heroism, like the pulp novels of old!

Genre Fiction

Sakuru: The Circle

Fantasy

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