Topic: Inspiration for Carcosa

I have been looking for other inspirational things for Carcosa. I figure to search for things similar to Retro Sci-fi or Space Opera mixed with Dark Science Fiction but have had no luck.

Re: Inspiration for Carcosa

What have you already looked at?

The Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a good place to start.

Re: Inspiration for Carcosa

I have looked at games such as Warhammer 40K, though not as much retro as it is more like Heavy Metals vision of the future.

Closest I can see that has a retro outlook would be Bioshock and Fallout. But neither entirely screams Carcosa to me.

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I recommend '80s issues of Heavy Metal.

I say this becasue that's when I was reading it. Other decades might be just as helpful but I can't speak to that.

Re: Inspiration for Carcosa

McKinney's original forum posts about Carcosa mention his influences. I link to a few of them on my blog.