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Post by deuce on Nov 22, 2016 13:21:14 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 20, 2016 19:36:27 GMT -5
On this date in 1996, Carl Sagan died at age 62. The astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author was also a big Burroughs/Barsoom fan. In 1973 he wrote: "The state of California was kind enough to give me an automobile license plate marked 'PHOBOS.' My car is not particularly sluggish, but it cannot circumnavigate our planet twice a day, either. The license plate pleases me. I would have preferred 'BARSOOM,' but there was a strictly enforced limit of six letters per license plate." “The Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs . . . aroused generations of eight-year-olds, myself among them, to consider the exploration of the planets as a real possibility.” (“Cosmos,” 1980) “I can remember as a child reading with breathless fascination the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I journeyed with John Carter, gentleman adventurer from Virginia, to ‘Barsoom,’ as Mars was known to its inhabitants.” (“Cosmos,” 1980) “I can remember spending many an hour in my boyhood…imploring what I believed to be Mars to transport me there.” (“Cosmos” 1980)
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Post by deuce on Dec 21, 2016 13:12:51 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 15, 2017 13:24:38 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 15, 2017 19:18:56 GMT -5
Art by J. Scott Campbell:
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Post by deuce on Jan 17, 2017 18:56:24 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 30, 2017 18:38:18 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 9, 2017 23:47:31 GMT -5
A cool video gallery of Barsoomian art:
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 10, 2017 8:01:39 GMT -5
A cool video gallery of Barsoomian art: The Michael Whelan covers, in my mind at least, the most magically captured the wonder and vividness of landscape, character and architecture as described by Burroughs. Absolutely beautiful...
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Post by emerald on Feb 10, 2017 10:11:08 GMT -5
A cool video gallery of Barsoomian art: The Michael Whelan covers, in my mind at least, the most magically captured the wonder and vividness of landscape, character and architecture as described by Burroughs. Absolutely beautiful... So true. Whelan is a phenomenon. Can't think of anybody else who basically said, "Stop giving me Hugo Awards." More to the point, you could make a pretty convincing argument that Whelan has given us the best depictions of both Burrroughs' Mars and Moorcock's Elric. Real benchmark stuff.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 10, 2017 10:51:17 GMT -5
The Michael Whelan covers, in my mind at least, the most magically captured the wonder and vividness of landscape, character and architecture as described by Burroughs. Absolutely beautiful... So true. Whelan is a phenomenon. Can't think of anybody else who basically said, "Stop giving me Hugo Awards." More to the point, you could make a pretty convincing argument that Whelan has given us the best depictions of both Burrroughs' Mars and Moorcock's Elric. Real benchmark stuff. Not to mention our beloved Howard Phillips Lovecraft...
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Post by johnnypt on Feb 10, 2017 11:10:56 GMT -5
A cool video gallery of Barsoomian art: The Michael Whelan covers, in my mind at least, the most magically captured the wonder and vividness of landscape, character and architecture as described by Burroughs. Absolutely beautiful...
The Whalens were the ones I bought when I first collected the series and that's a perfect description of them. It's interesting to compare them to the Frazettas, each give a completely different feel to the material.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 10, 2017 11:26:23 GMT -5
The Michael Whelan covers, in my mind at least, the most magically captured the wonder and vividness of landscape, character and architecture as described by Burroughs. Absolutely beautiful...
The Whalens were the ones I bought when I first collected the series and that's a perfect description of them. It's interesting to compare them to the Frazettas, each give a completely different feel to the material.
I absolutely cannot, after having spent hours gazing at Whelan's Barsoomian masterpieces, look at any pictorialization of Dejah Thoris or Tars Tarkas or John Carter, or a dead city or a malagor, etc and not compare it, often dismally, to these that have already captured my imagination of what this world's environs and it's denizens look like. In my mind, Whelan definitively captured the primal essence of Barsoom - gads I just wish I could take them back in time to show Ed - he'd shi* a gold brick.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 10, 2017 11:32:00 GMT -5
The Whalens were the ones I bought when I first collected the series and that's a perfect description of them. It's interesting to compare them to the Frazettas, each give a completely different feel to the material.
I absolutely cannot, after having spent hours gazing at Whelan's Barsoomian masterpieces, look at any pictorialization of Dejah Thoris or Tars Tarkas or John Carter, or a dead city or a malagor, etc and not compare it, often dismally, to these that have already captured my imagination of what this world's environs and it's denizens look like. In my mind, Whelan definitively captured the primal essence of Barsoom - gads I just wish I could take them back in time to show Ed - he'd shi* a gold brick. I think I was admittedly a little infatuated with MW's Thuvia...
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Post by deuce on Feb 22, 2017 12:07:57 GMT -5
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