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Post by PMP Webmaster on Mar 3, 2005 15:12:19 GMT -5
Golden-age type adventuring always makes me wish that, instead of Stargate: Atlantis, we could follow a group of explorers from one of the slightly less advanced worlds, something like an alternate history of 1930's Earth. There's a number of episodes in which the SG-1 team encounters pre-atomic industrialized civilizations who are probably capable of going out and, in limited circumstances, having their own SG-1 style adventures.
In fact, it would be sweet to have an alternate-history series stemming from the idea that the WW2-era experiments to get the Stargate working actually succeeded, and instead of beginning adventures into the unknown in the 1990s, we start in the 1940's.
Any Stargate fans have an opinion on this?
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Post by Doug on Mar 7, 2005 23:55:30 GMT -5
As a Stargate fan, I wholly enjoy this... though I think these stories were actually done a la Richard Blade or John Carter, Warlord of Mars.
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Post by Mark on May 9, 2005 9:45:15 GMT -5
Kind of Doc Savage Versus the System Lords?
That would be cool.
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Post by PMP Webmaster on May 25, 2005 9:46:54 GMT -5
Actually, I managed to pick up a trio of Doc Savage compilations about a month ago at a Cape Cod used bookstore. They look pretty promising. I've never read any of the Doc stories, but I've heard oodles about them, and most of what I hear is good.
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Post by Mark on May 27, 2005 6:40:47 GMT -5
Most of the Doc compiliations, the Omnibus editions, collected the shorter stories from late in the life of the pulp magazine, post-WII...in those, the wild tone of the pre-war adventures had been muted and Doc and his group were pretty tame.
The Doc novels from 1933 through 1940 served as the template for almost every pulp adventurer who came later, not to mention serving as the inspiration for Superman.
It's not that the stories collected in the Omnibus editions are bad...it's just that most of them are not representative of what made Doc Savage, both character and concept, such a beloved icon.
The differences between say, Fortress of Solitude (1937) and Terror And The Lonely Widow (1946) couldn't be more vast.
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Post by PMP Webmaster on May 27, 2005 10:39:38 GMT -5
Thanks for the info Mark. I'll keep an eye on the dates of any of the stories I'm reading and see if I can't pick up on the sort of change you're talking about.
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Jul 28, 2005 11:34:33 GMT -5
Hmmm...
There's a whole lot there, but I can't read any of it!
Thanks for sharing nonetheless.
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Post by Django The Bastard on Apr 5, 2006 12:00:28 GMT -5
Hmmmm...must be written in Ancient! Where's Daniel Jackson when you need him?
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Apr 5, 2006 14:33:11 GMT -5
Turns out they're just spammy links to god knows where. Click on any of it at your own peril, because I surely won't...
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Post by Skaramine on Apr 30, 2006 1:37:48 GMT -5
Those are links to Chinese websites. Weird.
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