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Post by kemp on Aug 15, 2018 8:18:21 GMT -5
It has been awhile since I have thought about the works of artists such as Tim White, Jim Burns and Michael Whelan. The kind of artists that would produce works of fantasy, science fiction and horror art in more or less equal servings without being pigeon holed into any one particular category or genre. Mutant Hunter by Michael Whelan
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Post by kemp on Aug 15, 2018 8:28:02 GMT -5
Art of Rowena also comes to mind. Hate to be walking past someone with a mutt like that on their leash.
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Post by buxom9sorceress on Aug 15, 2018 16:41:21 GMT -5
- IT WALKS !!!
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Post by buxom9sorceress on Aug 19, 2018 2:30:03 GMT -5
- - [ another version of FGD ] very good.
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Post by buxom9sorceress on Aug 19, 2018 2:52:03 GMT -5
- - another emerges from the PIT OF SET.
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Post by Char-Vell on Aug 19, 2018 15:26:52 GMT -5
well at least the serpent-thing didn't get pants either.
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Post by kemp on Aug 20, 2018 9:09:44 GMT -5
Fantasy worlds are often set in the far past, the far future or another planet or dimension. Creating an imaginative civilisation of the distant past requires careful research of both world history and myth, REH's Hyborian Age is perhaps the best realised when it comes to the prehistoric lost age type of thing. Of course you can set up anything in the future. For many people a distant future time is simply a more high tech version of our own time. Other people think on the problems of our modern age and imagine ruins the result of both natural and man made disasters.
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Post by kemp on Aug 20, 2018 9:17:43 GMT -5
A future fantasy setting.
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Post by kemp on Aug 21, 2018 9:33:28 GMT -5
Planet fantasy settings. It was kind of fun when writers imagined that planets in our solar system like Venus and Mars were habitable and ripe for adventure, even Jupiter's moons such as Ganymede.
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Post by kemp on Aug 21, 2018 9:38:03 GMT -5
Mars
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Post by kemp on Aug 21, 2018 9:40:27 GMT -5
The Moon
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Post by kemp on Aug 21, 2018 9:46:18 GMT -5
or Venus
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Post by Char-Vell on Aug 21, 2018 10:06:05 GMT -5
Sign me up for Venus!
Good stuff BTW, especially those Ganymede covers.
Thanks!
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Post by kemp on Aug 22, 2018 7:40:34 GMT -5
Sign me up for Venus! Good stuff BTW, especially those Ganymede covers. Thanks! Space is vast and our solar system is a mini galaxy in itself, so why not use it as a location for fantasy worlds. I like the Ganymede covers myself, and I know that another one of Jupiter’s moon was used as a backdrop for an interplanetary adventure, or sword and planet as some call it. The Callisto series by Lin Carter.
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Post by kemp on Aug 22, 2018 8:13:16 GMT -5
Watching some of the old twilight zones from the early 60's kind of made me think about the interplanetary genre. What was interesting is that Rod Serling set a few tales on asteroids with a breathable atmosphere and conditions where humans could survive, albeit sometimes barren, remote and isolated as in the case of 'The Lonely' in which the lone habitant of an asteroid becomes infatuated with a robot made in the likeness of a woman who may, or may not be, really alive. opening narration 'Witness if you will, a dungeon, made out of mountains, salt flats, and sand that stretch to infinity. The dungeon has an inmate: James A. Corry. And this is his residence: a metal shack. An old touring car that squats in the sun and goes nowhere—for there is nowhere to go. For the record, let it be known that James A. Corry is a convicted criminal placed in solitary confinement. Confinement in this case stretches as far as the eye can see, because this particular dungeon is on an asteroid nine million miles from the Earth. Now witness, if you will, a man's mind and body shriveling in the sun, a man dying of loneliness.'
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