I once read that Lovecraft felt he had Poe pieces and Dunsany pieces.
I've noticed Poe's influence on science fiction, especially in films like Event Horizon and Black Hole.
But Dunsany seems absent from modern sci-fi, right?
Please tell me I'm wrong and site someone. I mean with all this nanotech/virtual reality/transhumanist sci-fi ideas bouncing around, there's got to be someone writing Dunsanian hard space opera style science fiction.
Ursula K. LeGuin maybe?
Philip K. Dick? He was too drugged up to write hard sci-fi but it has a fantastical feel.
I ask because I'm lately interested in De Profundis and Machine Zeit, like wouldn't it be cool to write emails to a friend as if you were a salvager exploring a haunted derelict space hulk orbiting a black hole. But then I think that there might be a lot of potential for lighter fair, kind of like a travel diary from an interstellar explorer.
Like maybe combine De Profundis with Pilgrims of the Flying Temple. I'm not sure. I don't know where this is going yet.
Oh, this might feed back into my Hebrew Alphabet cards. Here's how they're shaping up already:
Basic Card Game - Working title - Temurah, start with AB (father) or some similarly small word that uses letters up front of the alphabet, and go around clockwise, each player forming a new word by adding a letter or playing a card on top of an existing one, to try to get rid of all the cards in your hand.
RPG - no working title - basically Fiddler on the Roof meets Brothers Grimm.
Solitaire Card Game - having the most trouble with this one. I kind of want it to be like classic Battlestar Galactica, twelve space tribes searching through space for the promised planet, but I want to be able to deal cards and they tell you stuff about the planet, like the bright Alef card might have the words Aviva-Spring written on it somewhere, and the dark Alef card might have the words Abadon-Ruin written on it somewhere, but I'm not sure if that would be enough, or if I need more, like words that might describe the people if any, or if the type of letter should mean something, like if you get a letter that has more than one pronunciation, would that mean deal an extra card as well, and should it be possible to lose the game, like if you run out of necessary resources, or the tribes abandon the quest one at a time? Or maybe the solitaire game can be a sci-fi version of Kino's Journey, so you just deal cards and make up a world using those cards as inspiration, with that world's customs and history. Maybe you could write a captain's log and occasionally send it to a friend.
Having words on the face of the card might also help people playing Temurah.