The Inventurers
Jonathan K. Hoynes (aka J.K. Hoynes, aka Jack Hoynes), 1867-1977: pulp fiction author, international travel writer, fringe journalist. Creator of such characters as Torgar the Savage, explorer/scientist Professor Cauldron, and millionaire industrialist/aviator/adventurer Charles Victor. Frequent contributor to Dyalhis & Moore's pulp weekly, Startling Suspense Stories (q.v.).
"Yeah, I know - it gets confusing for most people. Not for me, of course, because of, you know, the thing with my brain. People love to draw this hard line between so-called fiction and "reality". Did you know Torgar was friends with Jules Verne? And actually punched Burroughs in the face? I sh__ you not. In the godd___ face.
But history's full of us, really. Keyed into and able to actualize the imagined. Not so hard to believe nowadays, but back then...a lot of those "pulp" writers, dad, Kurtzberg, Torgar himself... do you know how many of those..what do they call them, f___in' "wormholes" and "portals" - stupid, stupid words, that sh__ is all there all the time, and sometimes it's all we can do to keep a f___in' lid on it...dad discovered half that sh__, you know, or was there. At the poles, Tecare...
Not all the sh__ that gets brought in is pretty, though, so dad had his "Cauldron of Heroes" - can you believe that? God, that man's ego - and I pulled together The Inventurers. Heh. "Pulled together". Yanked from all over. ALL over. [laughter] No, I didn't come up with that name - Voltaire did. Yeah! No! It's true. The dog. He comes up with all that marvelous bullsh__t. 'Generations have thrilled to their exploits!' and all that. No, I don't know how old he is...but that's not relevant for most of us, with the whole time thing. People get all up in a know about how time works. There's so many assumptions just in that, that "time" is a "thing" that "works". Ridiculous. It barely even matters.
No, I don't wanna talk about me. I have an Expanse-tap at minus2200."
- Wisteria Lume, from Arthur Klintler's interview files for his August 2011 Rolling Stone interview
The Inventurers were founded by Wisteria Lume, daughter of famed explorer Professor Claudius Cauldron and Princess Ituvia of the ivory world, Kuursien. The Inventurers are a team of adventurers, scientists, heroes, artists, and other very strange individuals from many different times and places, joined together to solve the problems no single weirdo can manage.
