Kind of a nice take on zeppelins. Along with like a billion other things in steampunk, they’ve been somewhat fetishized. Here Valentine looks at the people who make them go. The conductors of the story work inside the helium balloons, which (like astronauts) makes them taller and weaker. As noted in the author profile that follows, a lot of the industrial age society that steampunk centers itself on was built on the backs of workers who didn’t get to see the benefits of its wonders.

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