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Author: larseis

Nov 7th 2013 at 9:08:13 AM

Whoa, sorry for the late reply. No one touched this for weeks, and then I checked in on a whim...

To elaborate, I'm looking for stories set on Earth, so Dune is out. StarGate is out, because it's mostly set on that other world. Really, the only fantasy elements (if any) should be magic or curses which are human in origin.

Further, this really is just the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa. The lands once held under the Umayyad Caliphate, if we want to draw up official borders. The name "Desert Adventure" wasn't meant to be all-inclusive, I was just trying to phrase it as a pulp writer would. The PulpMagazine, TwoFistedTales vibe is key (hence why I cited El Borak).

It doesn't have to be set in that era specifically, but it does need to elicit that feel. I'm going to edit the main post with some of these suggestions, as well as some others of my own. Tell me if it gives you a better idea of what I'm after.

P.S. What I'm describing is the "pure trope," which was a common thread I had noticed running through many stories. It can, like all tropes, be manipulated and permutated in new forms. I see it in the same way that "The Western" is a genre tied to a specific time and place, but elements of it are borrowed by lots of other stories which are not pure Westerns.