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Books 19 - 21
Feb. 6th, 2009 06:34 pm19) The Mote in God's Eye (Reread): Niven and Pournell's book was calling to me for some reason, so I plowed through it last weekend. Since my first real exposure to Traveller was well after the last time i had read this I had not realized how much of the Traveller imperium was cribbed from this book. That's not a bad thing - it's a good book - but it that thought made me pull down....
20) GURPS Traveller: I have a copy of this that materialized out of the aerther some years ago. I would swear it was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladegard s' but he tells me he still has his. I had at best flipped through it before, and now that I was looking at it the setting's origins as a melange of SF settings - the imperium and Alderson drive from Mote, the ancients/forerunners from the Known Space, Psychohistory from the Foundation books and so on, (though as a melange, where's the spice?) which makes it hard for me to take the setting seriously. On the whole it ends up feeling like the Forgotten Realms, where you cross the border from the happy middle youman dalelands into the 500-700 AD Arabian Nights country and turn north into the Vikings. It all makes me less likely to run something in the setting.
21) Girl Genius Volumes 1-6 (reread) This showed a lot of instances of foreshadowing that I had missed last time around, show just how well the Foglio's have this plotted. What saddens me is how surprised I remain about how well they have it plotted, because most comics stories SHOULD BE plotted this well. But since they so often aren't we accept it, and then get thrilled when we find out that someone has planned more than 2 issues in advance.
20) GURPS Traveller: I have a copy of this that materialized out of the aerther some years ago. I would swear it was
ladegard s' but he tells me he still has his. I had at best flipped through it before, and now that I was looking at it the setting's origins as a melange of SF settings - the imperium and Alderson drive from Mote, the ancients/forerunners from the Known Space, Psychohistory from the Foundation books and so on, (though as a melange, where's the spice?) which makes it hard for me to take the setting seriously. On the whole it ends up feeling like the Forgotten Realms, where you cross the border from the happy middle youman dalelands into the 500-700 AD Arabian Nights country and turn north into the Vikings. It all makes me less likely to run something in the setting. 21) Girl Genius Volumes 1-6 (reread) This showed a lot of instances of foreshadowing that I had missed last time around, show just how well the Foglio's have this plotted. What saddens me is how surprised I remain about how well they have it plotted, because most comics stories SHOULD BE plotted this well. But since they so often aren't we accept it, and then get thrilled when we find out that someone has planned more than 2 issues in advance.
