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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:






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11 comments:

  1. Gothridge ManorAugust 29, 2011 at 7:04 AM

    These maps are great. Much. much better than NASA.

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  2. DarielAugust 29, 2011 at 7:55 AM

    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!

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  3. John Matthew StaterAugust 29, 2011 at 10:46 AM

    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.

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  4. TreyAugust 29, 2011 at 1:39 PM

    @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?

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  5. Theodric the ObscureAugust 29, 2011 at 6:59 PM

    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.

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  6. TreyAugust 29, 2011 at 8:26 PM

    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.

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  7. NeedlesAugust 29, 2011 at 9:06 PM

    Nice stuff Trey good find! Quietly steals this!

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  8. TreyAugust 29, 2011 at 9:11 PM

    Only the best. ;)

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  9. DarielAugust 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM

    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! :)

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  10. irbyzAugust 30, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    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

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  11. TreyAugust 30, 2011 at 7:32 PM

    @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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