Traveller Fiction II
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Commander Truestar
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Commander Truestar
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that was the way it was at FASA with Battletech. Especially in the latter days when Randall started writing along side Loren... Those were fun days(though I could've enjoyed it a bit more if Bryan had not taken the head off my Falconer..)
A little note here on my own stuff, I've gone through some manipulations here and there which has more than dented my imagination.
But, as of now, that's neither "here nor there" as my lawyer is apt to saying. Needless to say someone isn't getting jack from me anymore for his faux-Traveller online rag.
But, I continue to conjure unique worlds and situations for mental consumption and gaming goodness.
Stay tuned.
But, as of now, that's neither "here nor there" as my lawyer is apt to saying. Needless to say someone isn't getting jack from me anymore for his faux-Traveller online rag.
But, I continue to conjure unique worlds and situations for mental consumption and gaming goodness.
Stay tuned.
shadowcat20
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Being a very heavy reader who would go through 5 books a week I would love a series. Thieves world style would be great and would be easier to draw in a few big names. I would kill for a Striker/Mec book written by David Drake though.
What I am trying to make is a series of short stories that(theoretically) can someday amount to an epic. For this reason I give the year they occur as well as giving a reference framework. The system is made analogous to a tv series that links different episodes together.
While I do talk about it on message boards at the moment it is mostly for myself and for friends and family. In my mind of course it is a masterpiece but it is not that way when written down. I wonder how many authors and would-be authors would feel similarly about their incomplete works?
While I do talk about it on message boards at the moment it is mostly for myself and for friends and family. In my mind of course it is a masterpiece but it is not that way when written down. I wonder how many authors and would-be authors would feel similarly about their incomplete works?
Have you ever come across "Tales From The White Hart" by Arthur C Clarke? You could do a Traveller version set in some starport bar.
Brubecks of course. But maybe that is to well known?
One idea I thought of is having the tales told at a site on the Datanet. That way you can have each character relaxing at a different home or at a different bar or whatever , characters who know each other texting each other. And people from all ranks walks of life can enter and tell tales from the worlds head of state, to the local Imperial baron, to the IISS chief of station, to a Free Trader captain, to a lowly stevedore that Hears Things out in startown.
My computer has many novels started. Only one completed for various reasons and that one turned into a short story. Hey! Maybe I need to turn some of the others into short stories too.
I am not in for the epic spanning in gaming related fiction books all the time. Many of them, to me, seem to be adjoins for changing the landscape of the campaign world or universe in order to sell more gaming books. BattleTech seemed to me the most guilty of that. On the one hand, the Grey Death Legion was a good in that it focussed more on a small group, even though the ending had larger overall implications. The Warrior Trilogy was bad in this regard. Though well written, it was about too large a scale to really care about the characters too much.
spinwardpirate
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My choice was "stand alone, with different characters."
Why, you ask?
I don't have much time to devote to reading, so long, drawn-out stories, trilogies, &c don't serve me well. So, I'm not really part of the target audience. In fact, I can't even think of the last SF novel I read. Oh, wait! It was Dune! Last summer. It took me three tries over the course of a decade, but something finally clicked and on this last try I plowed right through it. Wonderful book. But like I said, other than being a Traveller fan, I'm not really in the target group. Most of what I read these days is 18thC history, specifically early colonial America with piratical and maritime leanings.
Why, you ask?
I don't have much time to devote to reading, so long, drawn-out stories, trilogies, &c don't serve me well. So, I'm not really part of the target audience. In fact, I can't even think of the last SF novel I read. Oh, wait! It was Dune! Last summer. It took me three tries over the course of a decade, but something finally clicked and on this last try I plowed right through it. Wonderful book. But like I said, other than being a Traveller fan, I'm not really in the target group. Most of what I read these days is 18thC history, specifically early colonial America with piratical and maritime leanings.
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