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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!
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Ah! Thanks! That was also brought up by google.
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The Sinbad Journey? I can find nothing but references to old movies, a game app, and a Disney attraction with a search in Google.
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(Quote) I did as well! Totally unexpected for me - though that is apparently a low hurdle! :D
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(Quote) That bothered me too. that is an immense amount of money for those days, and those few who HAD that kind of money would not have it in liquid form. It would be as Neil said. mostly deeds, leases, promissory notes, annuities, and that sort of…
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While poking around I found this on wikipedia: "Writing for the New York Times, author Tochi Onyebuchi noted ... that 'what is most refreshing about [the novel] is how concerned Amina is for the state of her soul.' Despite the fact that she of…
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Also, it was not a "complete lack of acknowledgement for religion". Amina was Muslim, although a fairly lax Muslim, and often explicitly prayed at the appointed times. Dalila was Christian, Nestorian I believe. Tinbu was a Hindu, which the…
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Amina's nephew was attending a school, IIRC. I don't remember what type. I may have assumed jurisprudence incorrectly, or without evidence.
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(Quote) Well OK then. In Outremer, I wanted to bring in the Red Sea, Aden and the Hadramout, Oman, Socotra... many things that she brought into The Adventures. I researched many of the same sources, and I kept recognizing bits of them throughout. Bu…
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I'm sorry if you feel I was criticizing you, but I think if you had different expectations - or like I did no expectations at all - coming in, your read might have been very different. Perhaps she used the real historical setting because the histori…