Graduation Day

[T. Foster]

Everybody who's reading this needs to go right now, without delay, to http://www.travellerrpg.com/TNE/ click on the New Era Fiction link and read "Graduation Day." I was impressed enough by the stories on the T20 site but this easily blows those away. I haven't yet read "Absent Friends" because, frankly, this one was too good and I want to savor it a little longer before moving on to something else.

Bravo, Martin. Damn fine story.

 

[T. Foster]

Following myself up, I just read the other story, "Absent Friends," and its also quite good. Closer to the feel of a conventional TNE adventure (military/RCES oriented, Smash & Grab scenario, lots of shooting) and therefore less interesting to me personally (I like fiction to different show aspects of the Universe than typical game-adventures -- character-study and the mundane details of day-to-day life rather than rip-snorting action) but still well-written and very much worth checking out.

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Both of these stories show a distressing tendency towards killing off all (or at least most) of the supporting characters, which tends to lessen the impact ("oh look, Lisa Davies is the only person to survive again"). Also it seems she made the jump from more-or-less noncombatant to racking up a sizeable body count awfully quickly, but maybe that's just my RL violence-abhorring nature acting up.

The question now is: will 'Diaspora Phoenix' continue the adventures of Lisa Davies? If not, I hope (and trust) that there are a least a few more short stories in her future.

 

[Takei]

I've read the two TNE shorts and the three on the T20 site and I really liked them all.
I would certainly like to see more shorts like this and be more than happy to buy a collection of them.

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Paul

 

[MJD]

There are several stories about Lisa, though they need editing, They cover about 12 years of timeline until the final One:
"Every Threadbare Sail".

They will appear as I get time to edit them.

Diaspora Phoenix is not Reformation Coalition based, so no Lisa....

 

[kafka47]

Cheers, another excellent job. Any chance we could see the Olympia Incident without purchasing the Quick Reprint.

Glad to see that you are on board, the D20 staff and certain it will be great product as a result. Just be sure to get some Jessie DeGraff artwork in there.

 

[MJD]

I don't imagine Olympia Incident will be seperately available for some time. Perhaps I'll be able to do a compilation of traveller shorts some time. Maybe then.

But watch out for more fiction.....

 

[Badbru]

MJD, Hunter, are these stories returning to this site sometime or are they going into a book to be released like Diaspora Phoenix?

I'd like to read the Lisa "Lander" Davies stories again but they were lost when the web site got its' revamp?