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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8310205" data-attributes="member: 6796468">As well it should!Jack Vance was directly inspired by some of the same authors that inspired Howard and Lovecraft, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Borroughs. What I would consider &quot;High Steampunk&quot; in the narrative, rather than aesthetic, sense at least.But he was also inspired by the Pulp Fiction of Weird Tales, which is where both Lovecraft and Howard's work was published before later being brought into collections.His novel Dragon Masters is -very- John Carter, wherein the technologically limited humans of a distant world fight of alien invasion from much more advanced peoples and ultimately save their world. Well. Most of it, at least! The main character even contemplates traveling to Earth (After capturing the alien spaceship) to see if it really exists, but tosses aside the tiny globe into a pile of rocks and chooses, instead, to remain the leader of his people.He makes the active decision not to become a new person in a pretty cool twist on expectations in that one!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8310205, member: 6796468"] As well it should! Jack Vance was directly inspired by some of the same authors that inspired Howard and Lovecraft, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Borroughs. What I would consider "High Steampunk" in the narrative, rather than aesthetic, sense at least. But he was also inspired by the Pulp Fiction of Weird Tales, which is where both Lovecraft and Howard's work was published before later being brought into collections. His novel Dragon Masters is -very- John Carter, wherein the technologically limited humans of a distant world fight of alien invasion from much more advanced peoples and ultimately save their world. Well. Most of it, at least! The main character even contemplates traveling to Earth (After capturing the alien spaceship) to see if it really exists, but tosses aside the tiny globe into a pile of rocks and chooses, instead, to remain the leader of his people. He makes the active decision not to become a new person in a pretty cool twist on expectations in that one! [/QUOTE]

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