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From Kipling’s Dirigibles to the Jet Age

May 13, 2012 By Stephen Leave a Comment

I don't get much chance to read for pleasure, but two things I've been reading recently spurred my imagination. After reliving the advent of modern transportation in the solid non-fiction Jet Age by Sam Howe Verhovek, I stumbled upon two pieces of speculative fiction from an unlikely source that predated everything presented there. In between The Jungle Book and hundreds of … [Read more...] about From Kipling’s Dirigibles to the Jet Age

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