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Old 03-26-2023, 05:16 PM   #1
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Default Iconic Character Haut-Cornet Louis d’Antares Home Setting/Genre

What setting/genre name would you call Cyrano, the home setting of Iconic Character Haut-Cornet Louis d’Antares?

Swashbuckling Super Science Mars?

Raygunteers Mars?
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Old 03-26-2023, 05:32 PM   #2
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I think of it as a Sword and Planet setting.
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Old 03-26-2023, 09:36 PM   #3
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Planetary Romance is how I'd list it, though the Sword-and-Planet mentioned earlier would fall under that genre.

Seems it'd fit a number of related genres.
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Old 03-26-2023, 09:55 PM   #4
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Note that this worldline is written up in

http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/lostworlds/

Cyrano only gets a couple of pages and an "official" genre name is not provided. Something like "Crystalpunk Swashbuckler" might hit the high spots though.

I judge it to be closer to traditional swashbucklers that Sword and Planet or Planetary Romance. Both of those tend to be sub-genres of Portal Fantasy structure-wise and while all of the Infinite Worlds "could" be sed for Portal Fantasy that's not inherent.
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