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Check out the anthology Science Fiction by Gaslight, one of many great collections edited by Sam Moskowitz.
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Sounds interesting. Some of the stuff I was reading about was from around 1860-1870 which is a generation or two before the period in that book but I’ll definitely check it out.
I was going to mention Metropolis, but since it’s already taken, how’s about Dark City ?
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I was going to mention Metropolis, but since it’s already taken, how’s about Dark City ?
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One of my favorite movies. I always thought of it more as “sci-fi noir,” but it ought to fit here anyway. Highly recommended, and you can always find the DVD at Target for $5.50. At that price (a dollar more than a Blockbuster rental), there’s no reason not to buy it!
I call it Gernsback Futurism, myself.
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I call it Gernsback Futurism, myself.
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For the benefit of everyone else, you’re basing it on William Gibson’s short story “The Gernsback Continuum,” reprinted in its entirety here:
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1988/1/1988_1_34.shtml
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For the benefit of everyone else, you’re basing it on William Gibson’s short story “The Gernsback Continuum,” reprinted in its entirety here:
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1988/1/1988_1_34.shtml
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I am going to get on a plane, fly down to Orlando, find a crowbar or a 2x4 or a dead freaking gator and beat you into a quivering mass and eat you on a taco, you cite-stealing rockabilly-listening Floridian!
I was scanning the whole thread hoping against hope nobody had posted that yet. YOU HAD THE LAST FREAKING POST IN THE THREAD! :smack:
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I am going to get on a plane, fly down to Orlando, find a crowbar or a 2x4 or a dead freaking gator and beat you into a quivering mass and eat you on a taco, you cite-stealing rockabilly-listening Floridian!
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Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve faced a threat like that. Doubt it’ll be the last, either.
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Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve faced a threat like that. Doubt it’ll be the last, either.
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Not around here, anyway.
the TVTropes wiki calls it Zeerust ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Zeerust ) and there’s like fifty examples on there.
Don’t know if it was official, but Bruce Timm refered to his art in Batman: the Animated Series as “Dark Deco.” So that is how I have always thought of it.
The look of Batman: The Animated Series was dubbed “dark deco”.
Wasn’t there a specific name for the style of Batman: The Animated Series?
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Wasn’t there a specific name for the style of Batman: The Animated Series?
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“Stately Wayne Manor?” I wouldn’t know. I only watched it once, in 1960. For 20 minutes.
Donnie “Rio” Darko? Something like that?
Would “Dark Deco” cover energy weapons from the early years of the 20th century? 
Lets not start that again, trying to identify more members of the genre, I seem to remember a flight game in the style of Sky Captain, possibly by Microsoft but I can’t see it on a list of MS games. The comic book continuation of War of the Worlds by D’Israeli might be covered by the term, but perhaps the alien influence is a bit much.
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I seem to remember a flight game in the style of Sky Captain, possibly by Microsoft but I can’t see it on a list of MS games.
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I don’t believe it is Microsoft, but it’s called Crimson Skies and was just a blast to play. It’s what I wish Sky Captain would have been.
ETA: Apparently it is a Microsoft game. My bad.
The anime The Big O is also in this style (and had involvement by the Batman animated series personnel).
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I don’t believe it is Microsoft, but it’s called Crimson Skies and was just a blast to play. It’s what I wish Sky Captain would have been.
ETA: Apparently it is a Microsoft game. My bad.
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I was just going to mention that (and it’s sequel for the X-Box, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge.
It’s another “WWII never happened (well…in this case, won’t happen because it’s the 1930’s”) The US is split up into several nation-states, and most commerce (that’s not across oceans) is with large zeppelins (the nation states closed off most roads and rail connections between them out of spite.) It’s one of my favorite games for the X-Box and I wish another Crimson Skies game would get made.
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It’s one of my favorite games for the X-Box and I wish another Crimson Skies game would get made.
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Same here. I’ve actually only played it on the X-Box and haven’t played the board or PC game. That was just the first Wiki link I had and was trying to get in under the Edit window. 
It’s all the same setting, though.
It started off as a FASA RPG/minatures combat game, and had a sequel as a ‘clicky’ minatures game. Both very good.
The PC game was based off the Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, with about 20% more horsepower than needed. It was fun, you could torque-steer your plane. Like doing handbrake turns in midair, only with the prop.