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"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, and mysterious 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 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!

Length: 243 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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About the Author

Todd Downing's love affair with pulp adventure dates back to his consumption of classic radio dramas and comic books as a child in the 1970s, which broadened into a general appreciation for scifi and fantasy media of all kinds. He grew up in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, writing and drawing from a young age, his works ever-present in school literary journals and newspapers, and eventually on film. He married his high school sweetheart and moved to Seattle in the early 1990s where he began to write professionally, and worked as an artist in the videogame industry until his publishing company became a full time operation. As the co-founder and creative director of Deep7 Press, Downing was the primary author and designer of over fifty roleplaying titles, including Arrowflight, RADZ, Airship Daedalus, and the official Red Dwarf RPG. He continues to write genre fiction for stage, film, comics, audio, and adventure gaming products. Widowed to cancer in 2005, Downing remarried in 2009 and currently enjoys an empty nest in Port Orchard, Washington, with his wife, two cats, an elderly German shepherd and a flock of unruly chickens. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B076BD864Z
Publisher : Deep7 Press; 1st edition (16 October 2017)
Language : English
File size : 1497 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 243 pages

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Rob MacLennan

Very good, but especially so for old radio fans

Reviewed in Canada on 28 December 2017

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If you're a fan of old radio serials, then this is for you. When reading you';ll almost hear it in that tinny, 1930s "Mid-Atlantic" radio voice. It's a prequel to "Assassins of the Lost Kingdom" and doesn't have to be read before that book, as both stand alone quite nicely, but I would recommend doing so.

CK Burch

Great Premise, Weak Execution

Reviewed in the United States on 23 October 2019

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Knowing nothing about Todd Downing's AEGIS world, I stumbled across A SHIELD AGAINST THE DARKNESS intrigued by the premise: a crew races against time to stop Aleister Crowley from unleashing dark magic in an experimental airship designed by Thomas Edison. Airships and action and ancient evil? Sign me up! Unfortunately, Downing's prose leaves a lot to be desired, as it does little to maintain the reader's interest with bland, flat descriptions and dialogue. This is an adventure tale that felt exactly like a dry sandwich. Great ingredients, by accounts should be at least palatable, but zero flavor and almost offensively difficult to get through by the end. Got as much of it down as I could, picked through the last of it, and left the remains behind. Just goes to show that good ideas don't always mean good execution.

James Tortolano

It’s Indiana Jones in an airship!

Reviewed in the United States on 6 January 2020

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This is a fun pulp-style romp with evil Prussians, aerial combat, zombies and an intrepid two-gun hero who calls up an image of Harrison Ford. Not exactly literary fiction but a brisk piece of retro adventure well worth the price of the popcorn.

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Fun and exciting

Reviewed in the United States on 5 August 2019

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Just finished listening to A shield Against Darkness, when I started this book I was skeptical as it is book I normally wouldn't listen to or read. But I was pleasantly surprised.🙂 it was engaging, exciting and well written. It contains mysteries, magic and comedy. I would highly recommend this book. I can not wait to listen to the next one.

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J R Collie

Adventure in an Airship with Supernatural bad guys.

Reviewed in the United States on 11 June 2019

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This book is a great introduction to the crew, a group that met in the war and are still aching for adventure. The semi-historical characters add a bit of flair. I am very excited to read to whole series.

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