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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 7, 2015 21:44:50 GMT -5
The Pellucidar series brings out one of my favorite themes - the physically impossible, but oh so fun hollow world. Also I love the fact that it has a Tarzan crossover book in the series. This series started in 1914.
At the Earth's Core Pellucidar Tanar of Pellucidar Tarzan at the Earth's Core Back to the Stone Age Land of Terror Savage Pellucidar (The first three stories in this collection were published in 1942 and the fourth story was published for the first time as part of the collection in 1963)
I love the way that ERB (in my mind) sucessfully describes a world were the horizon curves upward and there are no markers to tell of the passage of time or direction and the effect that has on visitors.
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 8, 2015 10:26:10 GMT -5
I like the creatures. They will appear in BLUEHOLME™ Compleat in some form.
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 8, 2015 11:00:32 GMT -5
I like the creatures. They will appear in BLUEHOLME™ Compleat in some form. That would be incredible! Have an Exalt!
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 8, 2015 12:15:06 GMT -5
John Eric Holmes (Yes that Dr Holmes) wrote two Pellucidar books that I would love to see.
Mahars of Pellucidar (1976) Red Axe of Pellucidar (1993) Swordsmen of Pellucidar (unfinished)
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 8, 2015 12:28:40 GMT -5
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 8, 2015 12:30:44 GMT -5
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 8, 2015 19:47:38 GMT -5
Holmes wrote up Mahars, Sagoths and Thipdars in Alarums & Excursions #18 (January 1977).
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 12, 2015 9:03:52 GMT -5
I would love to see that! Do you have the early Alarums & Excursions issues?
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 16, 2015 3:08:53 GMT -5
No, but I have a scan of that page - I'll see about posting the stats here when I get a chance (there'a a big pile of history-of-landscape-architecture marking next to me as I write ...).
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Post by Necromancer on Oct 20, 2015 3:51:59 GMT -5
I haven't read these books, but I like the concept so I'll have to see if I can track them down some day.
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 20, 2015 8:14:27 GMT -5
I haven't read these books, but I like the concept so I'll have to see if I can track them down some day. I think they are really fun reads and I like the way he addresses outsiders finding their way around and their inability to do so. If you ever use a hollow world in your campaign they are must reads.
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Post by Necromancer on Oct 20, 2015 8:27:08 GMT -5
I haven't read these books, but I like the concept so I'll have to see if I can track them down some day. I think they are really fun reads and I like the way he addresses outsiders finding their way around and their inability to do so. If you ever use a hollow world in your campaign they are must reads. Yeah, definitely. I remember seeing Journey to the Center of the Earth (the 1959 version) based on the Jules Verne novel when I was young, and thought it was really cool and inspirational.
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 20, 2015 21:38:42 GMT -5
Oh, sod it, I don't have time to type these out. Here's the article itself:
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