Source For Pulp/Steamtech Space Opera Adventure Or Campaign

[clsage]

I stumbled across:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%27s_Conquest_of_Mars

while reading a page linked from another thread.....While I have yet to read
it, I've attached a copy of the text, (courtesy of the folks at Project Gutenberg
(a very worthwhile effort found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page )).
The basic description alone is pretty solid fodder for inspiring an adventure or
three. :D

-Carl-

[Yansuf]

I have read it, and was not really impressed.

But most novels from that period that I've read didn't impress me either.
It is definitely of the "pre Cambell" school of SF.

But I really like Project Gutenberg.

[clsage]

I have read it, and was not really impressed.

But most novels from that period that I've read didn't impress me either.
It is definitely of the "pre Cambell" school of SF.

But I really like Project Gutenberg.

I agree, the writing style of the period is quite different from what readers
of our era expect when picking up a "scientific romance" (to use a term
I heard somewhere to describe such works as those of Jules Verne,
H.G. Wells and Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle). Just look at The Lost World.
When I last read it (some years back) I almost had flashes of the writing
style you might see in a 'bodice ripper novel' such as a Harlequin Romance.

As for Project Gutenberg ? :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

-Carl-