Showing posts with label Professor Challenger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Professor Challenger. Show all posts

Friday, June 6, 2025

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTON PRESENTS QUATERMANIN AND CHALLENGER’S 13.5 BILLION-YEAR DETOUR

Adventure 27 Production is thrilled to release a truly unique pulp adventure written by Thomas Kent Miller.  Several years ago Kent wrote “Allan Quatermain and the Star of Wonder,” wherein H. Rider Haggard’s hero encountered evidence of alien incursions on our planet, specifically the African coast of Sierra Leone. This story takes place in 1873 and though Quatermain survives to tell the tale, it’s ending is not complete.

 Then, Kent changes course and offers up “Challenger and the Ancient Nova in Aquila,” which transpires 42 years after the Quatermain tale. In this adventure, Conan Doyle’s eccentric Prof. George Challenger discovers, in the South American state of Ecuador a similar ruins whose origins and purposes he can only guess at. Both facilities, though separated by an ocean, are identical in construction.

 Now, we’ve reprinted both back to back as Kent always intended in this new Kindle-only edition. It contains the original interior illustrations by Clayton Hinkle and a new cover by Rob Davis.  Originally released on Kindle, it is now available in paperback as well.

 AIRSHIP 27 – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

 Available now on Amazon in paperback as well as Kindle.

Friday, September 29, 2023

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION PROUDLY PRESENTS THE CHALLENGER CHRONICLES

George Edward Challenger is a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Doyle’s intellectual super detective, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an aggressive and hot-tempered, dominating figure. The fearless scientist was accompanied on his perilous missions by reporter Edward “Ned” Malone who narrated the adventures.

“After the tremendous success of our Holmes series, it was only natural that we’d one day take on Prof. Challenger,” reports Airship 27 Production’s Managing Editor Ron Fortier. “When Gordon Dymowski approached us about that very concept, I suggested he go ahead and write the bible for such a series. He did so with panache and just like that three of his writing colleagues signed on. We are extremely excited about this first volume.”

Now Airship 27 Production is thrilled to debut brand new adventures of this classic pulp character as written by today’s finest New Pulp scribes. In this premier volume, writers Gordon Dymowski, Barbara Doran, Michael Panush and Samantha Lienhart sent the daring Challenger to strange and exotic locales always in the search of new wonders and thrills. Artist Clayton Hinkle provides both the interior illustrations and the dramatic color cover. 

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION! 

Available now at Amazon!

Monday, November 19, 2018

AIRSHIP 27 TO ADD PROF. CHALLENGER

It is no secret that Airship 27 Production’s best-selling books for the past six years have been their volumes in the “Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective” series. Now twelve volumes rich, they continue to sell and are constantly on Amazon’s top mystery anthology list year after year. To their thousands of loyal readers, reason for this continued success is no secret. All Airship 27 Production’s “Consulting Detective” books are done strictly in the tradition of Holmes & Watson’s creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Now this leading New Pulp publisher is hoping this formula will work a second time as they prepare to launch a brand-new anthology based once again on a Conan Doyle character; Prof. George Edward Challenger.

“After Holmes, Challenger is clearly Doyle’s most popular creation,” says Airship 27 Production’s Managing Editor Ron Fortier. “Which is why when our pal, and fellow writer, Gordon Dymowski approached us about doing a series featuring George Challenger, we were eager to hear what he had in mind.”  Dymowski, a popular Chicago writer and blogger, is also known as an enthusiastic Doctor Who fan and can be found at most Who related events in the Windy City.

“Gordon not only suggested the concept,” continued Fortier, “but actually went the extra step by writing up a Prof. Challenger bible.”  A bible is the name given to character data documents with which editors use to introduce perspective writers to a series. “Our hope is to elicit interest from established New Pulp writers in our community. Anyone interested in submitting should contact me and I’ll happily send them a copy of the bible.” Fortier ends with stating this is not a project for new amateur writers and Airship 27 will only look at those inquiries send in from known, published writers.

Will lightning strike twice?  Time will tell, while Fortier and Dymowski certainly have their fingers crossed.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!