Leave your so-called "reality-based" planetary science at home, and make sure your rocket has the approriate sheen:
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Pulp Planet Maps
Tired of NASA harshing your pulp buzz with "real" images of the solar system? Well, Edmond "World-Wrecker" Hamilton has got what you need. Here are some maps of some familiar worlds from his Captain Future series as presented in An Atlas of Fantasy.
Leave your so-called "reality-based" planetary science at home, and make sure your rocket has the approriate sheen:
Leave your so-called "reality-based" planetary science at home, and make sure your rocket has the approriate sheen:
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These maps are great. Much. much better than NASA.
Coolness! I seem to remember seeing maps for Leigh Brackett's Mars and Venus somewhere on the net also. Best place names I've ever seen - like the Sea of Morning Opals on Venus!
Mercurii in the NOD cosmology is split between elemental fire and cold with the temperate zone in the middle. Within the temperate zone is Garde, a pleasant valley protected by walls guarded by angels and einheriar against the demons who created the fire and ice zones.
@Daniel - There is a map of Brackett's Mars in Atlas of Fantasy and there was one in Best of Leigh Brackett. I'm not sure about the Venus map. You're right about her place-names when she stays away from Celtic myths thefts.
@Matt - that sounds really cool! Any chance of a post on that stuff?
Agreed! And, oh, how I love me some Leigh Brackett. Have I tried to sell folks on Paizo's Planet Stories lately? I discovered I like early Silverberg a lot more than his later stuff through PS, and they have two more pulpy Silverbergs following the last one.
No need to sell me. :) I'm a big fan of Planet Stories. In fact, Wellman's Hok stories came just the other day.
Brackett is easily one of my favorite pulp writers.
Nice stuff Trey good find! Quietly steals this!
Only the best. ;)
I found the Best of Leigh Brackett in a used bookshop, and my wife found me Sea Kings of Mars, the Fantasy Masterworks collection of her stories. Bliss! :)
Good to see those, thanks. :)
As usual, Lin Carter got in on the act, too. ^^ -- unpublished from his Mars portfolio in the late 40s (and recycled to a small degree later in published work); http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5061167174_0c889f961a_b.jpg / http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5061139536_e514536151_b.jpg
@Daniel - You hit the jackpot. I suggest you read Secret of Sinharat with selections of tracks from Morricone's For a Few Dollars More soundtrack, and Lalo Schifrin's Planet of Apes Television Series soundtrack. Trust me, it fits. ;)
@irbyz - Thanks. Carter's Mars novels were interesting. I admired the Brackett pastiche he was going for, but he didn't do Brackett as well as he did Burroughs. Moorcock's Brackett pastiche is better.
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