Talk:The Warlord of the Air

The
The title is The Warlord of the Air which is how this is linked in from most places. I'd suggest getting an admin to move it to the right place. (Emperor 16:09, 11 March 2007 (UTC))


 * Sounds fair enough to me.--Joseph Q Publique 03:07, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Something similar came up with The Authority (the name of the group and the title of the comic book) which was at Authority (comics) and the first link redirected to it. (Emperor 03:54, 12 March 2007 (UTC))

Notability
The first paragraph should state why this book is notable -- what's important about it, in a real-world context? --Coppertwig 01:41, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The first paragraph (at least nowadays, in 2012) stipulates the notability: that it is deemed a sort of proto-steampunk; and that it's perhaps the earliest example of the rule of thumb that in any fictional parallel world where the British and other European empires survive, some form of lighter-than-air travel does as well. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  17:09, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

UK cover
That cover illustration is ghastly. Was that really the original Ace cover in the United States? When published in the UK, it had a very splendid picture featuring an airship with the inscription "Royal Indian Air Service". After that you just had to read it!

This is probably the one I'm thinking of.

Warlord-of-the-air1.jpg

--TS 23:34, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Oswald Bastable
As I understand this article, its Oswald Bastable is a veteran British soldier in 1903.

The Bastable series by E. Nesbit is contemporary realistic fiction inaugurated by The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) in which Oswald is about twelve, I vaguely recall and suppose. Contemporary, not set in the past, and realistic, not fantasy, if i recall and understand correctly.

We say here:
 * Oswald Bastable is a character created by author E. Nesbit for her book The Story of the Treasure Seekers.

and say in The Story of the Treasure Seekers (our only page for the Bastable series, and without plot summary):
 * British writer Michael Moorcock later used the character, or at least the name, of Oswald Bastable for the hero and first-person narrator of his trilogy A Nomad of the Time Streams, published from 1971 until 1981, an influence on the nascent genre of steampunk.

Is there any basis for suggesting Moorcock has done anything more than reuse a name made famous in another writer's fiction? --P64 (talk) 22:28, 21 February 2015 (UTC)