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    Airship Daedalus: Assassins of the Lost Kingdom
    Airship Daedalus: The Arctic Menace
    Airship Daedalus: A Shield Against the Darkness
    Ebook series3 titles

    Airship Daedalus Series

    By Todd Downing and E.J. Blaine

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    About this series

    A fierce battle at the top of the world, against a most ferocious enemy.

    November, 1928 finds Dorothy “Doc” Starr and Jack McGraw raising their daughter Ellen on a ranch in the Hollywood Hills, when the local AEGIS bureau chief taps them for a new assignment – investigate the source of a strange radio signal originating from somewhere off the northern coast of Greenland.

    When their home is attacked by agents of the Silver Star, they know Aleister Crowley has gone on the offensive.

    In an upgraded Daedalus, the crew recruits an Inuit guide and heads into the Arctic expanse, where they encounter savage storms, ravenous predators, Russian mercenaries, the mysterious descendants of Viking explorers, and hordes of the reanimated dead.

    With wounded crewmembers, a disabled airship, and the Silver Star in the vicinity, Jack and Doc must race to find the source of the signal and prevent a ghoulish apocalypse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeep7 Press
    Release dateJan 9, 2018
    Airship Daedalus: Assassins of the Lost Kingdom
    Airship Daedalus: The Arctic Menace
    Airship Daedalus: A Shield Against the Darkness

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      Airship Daedalus: A Shield Against the Darkness
      Airship Daedalus: A Shield Against the Darkness

      Airship Daedalus: A Shield Against the Darkness

      Todd Downing
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      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 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!

      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 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!

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      Airship Daedalus: Assassins of the Lost Kingdom
      Airship Daedalus: Assassins of the Lost Kingdom

      Airship Daedalus: Assassins of the Lost Kingdom

      E.J. Blaine
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      July, 1926 finds ace pilot Jack McGraw and scientist Dorothy “Doc” Starr, hot on the trail of evil agents murdering prominent captains of industry—a trail that leads them to face an old enemy they thought vanquished. With the backing of Thomas Edison's A.E.G.I.S. foundation, Jack and Doc use their light reconnaissance airship Daedalus to travel to the Himalayas, where a deeper mystery unfolds. Together with their crewmates, suave English radioman Edward “Duke” Willis, curmudgeonly Bronx mechanic Carl “Rivets” Holloway and laconic Cherokee sharpshooter Charlie “Deadeye” Dalton, they delve into local customs and ancient lore surrounding the “Eye of the World”, a hidden kingdom in the heart of the mountains known as Shambala, where the only antidote to the world's deadliest poison still grows wild. Based on the Airship Daedalus retro pulp comic strip by Todd Downing and Brian Beardsley, Assassins of the Lost Kingdom is the first novel from author E.J. Blaine, who brings the fun and excitement of classic adventure stories to the fore. Mobsters, mad science, secret societies, occult threats, and lost worlds meet globe-trotting, sky-high aerial adventure and two-fisted heroism, like the pulp novels of old! "Airship Daedalus: Assassins of the Lost Kingdom has everything you'd hope for in a pulp adventure. Crafted in the mold of its predecessors from the 1920s, the book has a bit of everything. Adventure, intrigue, danger—and most of all, atmosphere. I'd recommend it to fans looking for hints of late-era steampunk, 1920s pulp adventures, Indiana Jones, or just people looking for a fun, fast adventure." - Jeffrey Cook, author of the Dawn of Steam trilogy

      July, 1926 finds ace pilot Jack McGraw and scientist Dorothy “Doc” Starr, hot on the trail of evil agents murdering prominent captains of industry—a trail that leads them to face an old enemy they thought vanquished. With the backing of Thomas Edison's A.E.G.I.S. foundation, Jack and Doc use their light reconnaissance airship Daedalus to travel to the Himalayas, where a deeper mystery unfolds. Together with their crewmates, suave English radioman Edward “Duke” Willis, curmudgeonly Bronx mechanic Carl “Rivets” Holloway and laconic Cherokee sharpshooter Charlie “Deadeye” Dalton, they delve into local customs and ancient lore surrounding the “Eye of the World”, a hidden kingdom in the heart of the mountains known as Shambala, where the only antidote to the world's deadliest poison still grows wild. Based on the Airship Daedalus retro pulp comic strip by Todd Downing and Brian Beardsley, Assassins of the Lost Kingdom is the first novel from author E.J. Blaine, who brings the fun and excitement of classic adventure stories to the fore. Mobsters, mad science, secret societies, occult threats, and lost worlds meet globe-trotting, sky-high aerial adventure and two-fisted heroism, like the pulp novels of old! "Airship Daedalus: Assassins of the Lost Kingdom has everything you'd hope for in a pulp adventure. Crafted in the mold of its predecessors from the 1920s, the book has a bit of everything. Adventure, intrigue, danger—and most of all, atmosphere. I'd recommend it to fans looking for hints of late-era steampunk, 1920s pulp adventures, Indiana Jones, or just people looking for a fun, fast adventure." - Jeffrey Cook, author of the Dawn of Steam trilogy

    • Airship Daedalus: The Arctic Menace
      Airship Daedalus: The Arctic Menace

      Airship Daedalus: The Arctic Menace

      Todd Downing
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      A fierce battle at the top of the world, against a most ferocious enemy. November, 1928 finds Dorothy “Doc” Starr and Jack McGraw raising their daughter Ellen on a ranch in the Hollywood Hills, when the local AEGIS bureau chief taps them for a new assignment – investigate the source of a strange radio signal originating from somewhere off the northern coast of Greenland. When their home is attacked by agents of the Silver Star, they know Aleister Crowley has gone on the offensive. In an upgraded Daedalus, the crew recruits an Inuit guide and heads into the Arctic expanse, where they encounter savage storms, ravenous predators, Russian mercenaries, the mysterious descendants of Viking explorers, and hordes of the reanimated dead. With wounded crewmembers, a disabled airship, and the Silver Star in the vicinity, Jack and Doc must race to find the source of the signal and prevent a ghoulish apocalypse.

      A fierce battle at the top of the world, against a most ferocious enemy. November, 1928 finds Dorothy “Doc” Starr and Jack McGraw raising their daughter Ellen on a ranch in the Hollywood Hills, when the local AEGIS bureau chief taps them for a new assignment – investigate the source of a strange radio signal originating from somewhere off the northern coast of Greenland. When their home is attacked by agents of the Silver Star, they know Aleister Crowley has gone on the offensive. In an upgraded Daedalus, the crew recruits an Inuit guide and heads into the Arctic expanse, where they encounter savage storms, ravenous predators, Russian mercenaries, the mysterious descendants of Viking explorers, and hordes of the reanimated dead. With wounded crewmembers, a disabled airship, and the Silver Star in the vicinity, Jack and Doc must race to find the source of the signal and prevent a ghoulish apocalypse.

    Author

    Todd Downing

    Todd Downing is the primary author and designer of over fifty roleplaying titles, including Arrowflight, RADZ, Airship Daedalus, and the official Red Dwarf RPG. A fixture in the Seattle indie film community, he is the co-creator of the superhero-comedy webseries The Collectibles, and the screenwriter behind The Parish and Ordinary Angels (which he also directed). His first feature film, a supernatural thriller entitled Project, was included in a PBS young directors series in 1986. He has written for stage, screen, comics, audiodrama, short-form and long-form, interactive and narrative, in a career spanning three decades. The father of two adult children, Downing spent several years in the videogame industry, working on games such as Spider for the Playstation, Allegiance for the PC, and Casino Empire. He also creates book covers and marketing art for fellow authors and corporate clients, and has done voiceover work for Microsoft and the Seattle Seahawks Pro Shop.Widowed to cancer in 2005, Downing remarried in 2009 and currently enjoys an empty nest in Port Orchard, Washington, with his wife, a nihilistic cat, and a flock of unruly chickens.

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