Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...


Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...

Postby Ziggurat » Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:21 am

Hello all,
So... does anyone have any media that might stave off withdrawal from Lost Eidolons? ^_^ I was thinking it might be kind of neato to keep a running list of movies, books, graphic novels etc. that fit within the Lost Eidolons themes. You know. Because you're a bunch of interesting folk, and I'd love to get some new film and book recs.

For my part...
The Spectrum Art Book Series

Shirley Jackson's _We Have Always Lived in This Castle_ and _The Haunting of Hill House_

Any horror fiction by Joyce Carol Oates (she's not only an amazingly prolific writer, but one of the premier lovecraft editors/scholars)

Margaret Atwood's _The Year of the Flood_ and _Oryx and Crake_

There are more I'll come up with if this list takes off.

Cheers!
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Re: Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...

Postby Jacob » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:48 am

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Re: Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...

Postby Herbert Wayland Baker » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:34 am

This seems like an excellent place for me to recommend the gratuitously clever Ted Chiang. The Merchant and The Alchemist's Gate is a great place to start with his (disappointingly small) corpus.


Have you ever thought to yourself "Wouldn't it be awesome if Keats stopped all that poetry nonsense and started writing video compression algorithms?" Really, you haven't? You should still try The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling on for size.

Alternatively, if you just can't get enough Dilbert, John Le Carré (whose The Spy who Came in from the Cold has a particularly Cthonian beauty on its own) or theoretical c0mputer science with your Elder Gods you should take a look at Charles Stross's Laundry series. His short story The Concrete Jungle drops you in the middle of things, but it's fairly representative.
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Re: Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...

Postby Alex » Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:48 pm

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Re: Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...

Postby Anton Ivanovich » Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:18 pm

Less steam punk and more post apocalyptic with heavy elements of steam is Julian Comstock by Robert Wilson, honestly it's so good it's probably going to get a Hugo award this year.

Another excellent book for those with interest in Volskagrad is One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, this one's short so if you can get a copy and want a quick read this isn't a bad choice.

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Re: Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...

Postby Jack Graft » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:57 pm

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello was AMAZING.
Thank you for turning me onto that. I have seen most of everything else but that, which intrigued me.

I found it here:
http://vimeo.com/3142710
(Czech subtitles)

Thanks again!
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Re: Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...

Postby Alex » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:57 pm

Anytime! I love threads like these.

So here is the list from our rulebook's inspiration section, for those of you too lazy to look it up:

Books:
Anything by H. P. Lovercraft
Anything by Jay Lake
Anything by China Mieville, (especially Perdito Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council)
Shadows Over Baker Street edited by Michael Reaves and John Pelan
Dead Man's Hand by Nancy Collins

Role Playing Games:
Unhallowed Metropolis, Eos Press
World of Darkness, White Wolf (Particularly Promethean)
Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium/Wizards of the Coast

Videogames:
Bioshock
American McGee's Alice
Silent Hill (the first one)

Movies:
City of Lost Children

Comics:
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Hellboy

Music:
The Donnie Darko soundtrack
Most anything by NiN, particularly ―Capital G.
Most anything by Abney Park, esp ―The Secret Life of Dr. Calgori and ―Airhsip Pirates
Rob Zombie ―Death of it All, ―Ride, and ―Living Dead Girl
Morcheeba, ―Hemphasis The Knife, ―Marble House
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Re: Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...

Postby Ziggurat » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:38 pm

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Re: Because None of Us Can Get Enough LE...

Postby Sheriff 005 » Thu Oct 07, 2010 1:56 am

I have a few movies for you:

League of etrodinary gentleman (meh)
Golden compass.(Love it)
Steamboy (lots of fun anime)
Stardust (it has an airship)
VanHellsing (sucks but whatever)
The Mummy series (too modern but it has tombs and undead)
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