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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/21/09

    In reply to Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes From 100+ Years Of SF Books
    If you're going to count comics, you've gotta count him.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    You know Charlie Jane, i've only just gotten my R2-D2 t-shirt and then you go an post this. *sigh* I'm gonna have to freeze my credit card or start sending you the bills.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/20/09

    In reply to Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes From 100+ Years Of SF Books
    If we're going old school, what about Lemuel Gulliver or Baron Munchausen?
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    Image of lorq lorq
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I still own and cherish my copy of "20th Century Foss," the artbook put out by Dragon's Dream Publishers, which also put out beautiful and glossy books by Roger Dean, Syd Mead, and many others, back in the mid-70s and thereafter. (Time for a Dragon's Dream retrospective article / gallery, mayhap...?)
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    11/20/09

    @lorq: Ahem, of course I meant "21st Century Foss."
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    Image of Whitworthian Whitworthian
    11/20/09

    In reply to Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes From 100+ Years Of SF Books
    I really have a difficult time thinking of Cugel the Clever as a swashbuckler... he's more a dandy and rogue. There's little that's heroic or courageous about him. Few of your "D" words (other than dapper) actually apply.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    Yay, Jodo! Factoid: the new Metabarons GN has a lengthy sequence by AWOL WildC.A.T.S penciller Travis Charest, which is beyond awesome. The two of them on one book hugely rule.
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    Edited by Perhaps Not at 11/20/09 8:59 AM Perhaps Not was starred Perhaps Not was unstarred
    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    11/20/09

    In reply to Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes From 100+ Years Of SF Books
    i only read one book off the list, and knew of the second.

    i have failed in my sci-fi fan boy module installation.

    can i still wear my Captain Planet shirt?
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    Image of Tim Barribeau Tim Barribeau
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    Many of Jodorowsky's ideas for Dune were folded into his comics, like L'Incal and Metabarons. L'Incal is an utter braintrip, in the best sense of the word. Totally worth a read.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    My gods, those are some very colorful ships.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I don't remember "Pirates of Dune."

    I like the pictures, though.
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    11/20/09

    @cletar: I like that title!

    You've got yourself another Kevin J. Anderson Dune series right there!
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I used to have two artwork books from this guy. Very distinctive imagination.

    My mom threw them out when I left for college :-(
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    Image of Zenuflecked Zenuflecked
    11/20/09

    @FrankenPC: Oh, that is so unfortunate. I managed to hold on to my copies of 3 of his books. I never got the star liners book unfortunately, but I had the spacecraft, spacewars, and spacewrecks. Someone is doing a revival of the storyline that ran behind these for an RPG.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/20/09

    @Zenuflecked: Mine were Starliners and Spacecraft. I've never seen Spacewars. I'll have to amble on over to Amazon and take a look see.

    #calendar
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/20/09

    @Zenuflecked: the ones you mean by Stewart Cowley?
    I have them - Spacecraft 2000-2100, Spacewrecks, Great Spacebattles and the Spaceliners one.

    Foss wasn't actually involved with this series.. the work by other artists is very similar tho.

    Edit
    Forgot to note there is a Spacewars book, that is Spacecraft 2000-2100 and Spacebattles in one Edition.
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    Edited by KhaiJB at 11/20/09 8:53 AM KhaiJB was starred KhaiJB was unstarred
    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/20/09

    @Zenuflecked: Holy mother of gawd :-O Starliners goes from ~100$-~300$ on Amazon!
    (Shakes fist~!) Damn you mom!!!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/20/09

    @FrankenPC: get away from my copy!
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    KhaiJB was starred KhaiJB was unstarred
    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/20/09

    @KhaiJB: heres the full set

    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]

    now get your mits off my copies. MINE!
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    Image of Zenuflecked Zenuflecked
    11/21/09

    @FrankenPC: yeah, I was avoiding mentioning that aspect. If I wasn't so attached to mine I'd collect some cash for them.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    aah Foss... shaped my view of spacecraft ever since I can remember...
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    @KhaiJB: I know what you mean, my father used to read me the Lensmen series as bedtime stories so i went to sleep looking at those covers.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    11/20/09

    In reply to Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes From 100+ Years Of SF Books

    Richard Corben's Den, as seen in the magazine and film Heavy Metal
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    Image of snarklenyc snarklenyc
    11/20/09

    In reply to Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes From 100+ Years Of SF Books
    Jonny Rico is kind of a pansy at the beginning of Starship Troopers, but I would still give him and the rest of the Roughnecks an honorable mention for fighting the Bugs to protect Heinlein's militaristic mankind in what might be one of my favorite books of all time.
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/19/09

    In reply to Greatest Swashbuckling Heroes From 100+ Years Of SF Books
    For any landlubber inspired by this, to consider a late-stage career change to buckling their swash on the briny (whether on Earthball or frozen-topped, fish-filled, Europa) may I highly recommend Jacob Sager Weinstein [en.wikipedia.org] and Matthew David Brozik's essential The Government Manual for New Pirates [www.amazon.com] .

    I'm glad someone gave some love (@DoktorH: ) to the Beeblebrox ("Ooh look! The black light just lit up!"), as I got sidetracked from tweeting him in, by trying to remember the name of a (mid-eighties?) slice of space-opera that used the 'Dread Pirate Roberts' [en.wikipedia.org] trope from The Princess Bride (and Lee Falk's The Phantom) in a very effective way over a galactic backdrop and the name of the hero who eventually assumed the role.

    I don't quite recognise it from any of the descriptions yet.

    Any clue?
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    Image of blackoak blackoak
    11/19/09

    @SJ_Edwards: Check out Mike Resnick's "Santiago". I believe it the book you are thinking of. If it isn't, it still fits your description.

    And I don't even want to think about listing all of Mr. Resnick's characters that could fit the label of swashbuckler.
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    SJ_Edwards promoted this comment Edited by blackoak at 11/19/09 8:34 PM blackoak was starred blackoak was unstarred
    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/19/09

    @blackoak: "That's it!"
    *sound of memory floodgates opening*
    "Thank you! Thank you!" :)
    *Mexican wave of appreciation*
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/19/09


    @blackoak: And here he is!
    Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future [en.wikipedia.org]
    Mike Resnick [en.wikipedia.org]
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