With our Harry Potter books, we have Harry, himself, flying on a hippogriff. We've another example in the HP books, that of Beauxbaton's carriage pulled by the Abraxan horses. And, of course, we have broomsticks! Zooming along on a Comet 260 is fun, right? When we branch out to different kinds of transportation written about by other authors and in other books, what about airships of steampunk lore? That flying ship which gathered up lightning in Stardust (by Neil Gaiman) is incredible.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, by Roald Dahl, continues the story of young Charlie Bucket (written about in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and chocolatier Willy Wonka. They have many adventures in the flying Great Glass Elevator.
What is one of your favourite fictional modes of transportation? What book, or books, do you find it in? If different authors use the same general style transportation, are there variations on a theme in how it is used, or do the authors pretty much write it as if there is just one main way of using it?
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