Reply #16: I just started "The Sky People" by S M Stirling. [View All]

[Bridget Burke]

He's known for Alternate History--this is Alternate History on an Alternate Venus.

From the Acknowledgments:

Thanks to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, Otis Adelbert Kline, Leinster, Heinlein, and all the other great pulpsters for gracing my childhood with John Carter, Northwest Smith, "Wrong Way" Carson of Venus, and all the heroes gifted with a better solar system than the one we turned out to inhabit. From the jungles of Venus and the Grand Canal of Marsopolis, I salute you!

I aleady know there are airships, but the lesbian warrior-women haven't shown up yet. (Hey, it's Stirling's reality--let him play!) The sequel will be set on Mars, of course.

Lying on the stack are Avram Davidson's The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy & a couple of R A Lafferty's more obscure rarities. Two of my favorite authors & well worth the effort. But I was in the mood for A Ripping Yarn.