Traveler | 15. September 2011
My good friend Timo just brought this little ætherweb gem to my attention: The Mercury Men Good job I mentioned Atompunk just two days ago, this fits the bill, somewhat. The Mercury Men is quite a cool mix and new take on several genres. Jack Yaeger looks and acts like a pulp novel hero [...]
Category: Dieselpunk, Film, Steampunk, Technomantic Stuff |
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Tags: Film, Movie, Pulp, The Mercury Men, therweb, Webseries
Traveler | 16. Juli 2011
One of the greatest epics of the golden age of pulp sci-fi, John Carter of Mars, is coming to the Big Screen! Oh glorious cinematography! For some eldritch reasons the people making the movie have decided to skip the “of Mars” bit, though. Strange… “John Carter” as a movie title sounds so much like “Joe [...]
Category: Film, History, Literature |
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Tags: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Movie, John Carter of Mars, Pulp
Traveler | 10. April 2011
Good job I regularly check out what my good friend Captain Serenus is doing over at Clockworker (see sidebar for link). Otherwise I would have probably failed to mention this excellent sitcom The Ward on my blog. Since the Cthulhu Mythos is the second main theme of this blog, it would have been quite disgraceful [...]
Category: Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhuiana, Dieselpunk, Literature |
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Tags: Cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft, Pulp, Ætherweb
Traveler | 3. September 2010
Last night, while once more being on the site of my favourite educational podcats Skeptoid, I read Brian Dunning’s annoucement Skeptoid being a finalist for this year’s Parsec Awards in the category Fact Behind the Fiction. Good luck, Brian, you have my support! So I went over to the Parsec Awards’ Website and had a [...]
Category: Dieselpunk, Literature |
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Tags: Podcast, Pulp
Traveler | 20. August 2010
If he would still be with us today, H.P. Lovecraft, Master of the Macabre, Pulp-Icon, my favourite author and responsible for part of my son’s name, would celebrate his 120th birthday today. So, let’s take a moment to skip through the pages of the many versions of the Necronomicon available today, take out one of [...]
Category: Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhuiana, Literature |
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Tags: Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft, Pulp
Traveler | 15. Juli 2010
Just recently stumbled across the Youtube Channel of Battlejitni, so far there are only two videos in it, but it sure looks promising. One is a trailer, the other one is the following: It looks a lot like pulp and it sure is fun, and it does not take itself too seriously, and that’s something [...]
Category: Dieselpunk, Film |
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Tags: Movie, Pulp, Youtube