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Actually April apparently did not become pregnant. I always wondered why... possibly because she was no longer human, and therefore Gaia did not want a hybrid Titan/Angel?
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(Quote) Ha! Yes! Niven was great about stuff like that!
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(Quote) I wasn't trying to say this was common, but it obviously does exist in some cases.
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Here is an example from Magazine 4, an article called A Look At Scan. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XpxNO_9Hn9GAx6AwjNXXt5yJD7okYsot/view?usp=sharing You can see that we go into great detail when we design components of the setting because we a…
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(Quote) No - I always work out the details of my game settings so I understand how everything works, then abstract it in-game. GMs and players don't need this information to play the game, so we don't put it in. We publish a lot of this stuff in our…
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Joining small pieces into larger wholes is known as scarfing IIRC. The British used this technique to make masts for their sailing ships when they lost access to American forests. My dad used this scarfing technique - basically fitting pieces togeth…
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(Quote) Huh! Who would have thought of that? :D
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(Quote) That was Volant, the post magical apocalypse game with actual floating islands where people rode giant birds and bats. I was talking about Sweet Chariot, which is very much a SF game, as the planet is in a system with other settled, high tec…
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I once wrote a game where the setting featured steam powered airships and 'sort of' islands. It was set on a planet where the atmosphere contained a lot of argon and the settlers who landed there in improvised gliders could only live on the mountai…
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Reading the above I remember these thoughts when I was reading, but I had forgotten about them by the time I wrote my impressions at the top. I agree with your assessment here, @Apocryphal - Yes, I can see how all these things could exist, but not a…
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(Quote) :D
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(Quote) It's not. Both of the games I am running games are using the setting for one of my games, one of which is using the full game, and the D&D game (currently in hiatus) is being run by my son, a co-author of that game, and he has adapted it…
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I am currently running two separate games in a zero gee air filled setting, and just (a week ago) stopped playing in a D&D game set in a zero gee air filled setting. So yeah! I personally am tired of save the world story lines for the nonce, so …
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Autocratic religious buttholes seem to be all over the place here. And I live in Massachusetts!
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I don't know. They seem pretty much like autocratic religious buttholes to me. I don't like them already.
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It all made sense. It was nice and scientifically taut. It's like a sort of steampunk/dieselpunk riff on Niven's Smoke Ring, which is very familiar to me, being the basis of one of my games. Humans adapted to zero gee the way astronauts adapt if the…
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Hands down Venera. Cool monster that she is!
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I did pick up book 2 in the omnibus volume and will be reading it in the future. If I like that as well as I liked this one, I will get more.
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I didn't read book two - I had a couple other books I wanted to read first.
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By Valentine's day I was halfway done... except I forgot there were 2 books in the Kindle edition, and that meant I had finished the first story... unexpectedly...
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Bingo
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I still have my SFBC hardback, so I didn't think to check...
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(Quote) Got it!
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I can move Titan up to March if Ray is not ready.
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You mean a popularity contest. like ALL awards? I kid of course. All I can say about the actual shitstorm is that they knew it was a snake when they picked it up.
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(Quote) Anyone interested in Varley's Titan? A book I loved when it came out, but haven't read in a loooooong time... If not there are newer books I could be reading...
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Two words: Player Character. They see everything you don't want them to see, and nothing you want them to see....
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Yes, they are under social pressure to conform. Look at Amina's mother, or Salima and Dunya. But they are the fringes of society, and the further you go from the center, the less effective that pressure is.
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I am thinking seriously of a supplement for Outremer focused on the Indian Ocean, so I will pick up the Sinbad Voyage. Thank you for the recommendation, Richard!
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I own his Brendan Voyage, and it's excellent!