I'll insert my standard caveat here -- Ken's right, if you assume that FTL drives are only strategically useful but not tactically useful. If you have a...
Greetings: "[who started grad school on Tuesday]" Say goodbye free time! Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody...
Best of luck with program Scott ... From: Fred Kiesche To: sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 7:39 AM Subject: Re: [sfconsim-l] Digest...
scott palter, final s...
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Sep 4, 2005 12:46 pm
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... Thank you! It should be fun. (And not fun -- I've done grad school before, so I know what I am getting myself into.) ... We already had a tearful...
Just wanted to share a bit of good news. http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/index2.htm Aphelion Web Zine will publish a story set in my hard science RPG Universe!...
Seems worth a trip to go out and take a closer look... http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20050907/sc_space/largestasteroidmightcontainmorefreshwaterthanearth ...
Found this... Location: Ithaca, NY Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject: Space Hulk, 1st & 2nd ed, Genestealer & Deathwing EB ... I just put the...
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Sep 8, 2005 8:51 pm
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Greetings: Hmmm...Chris starts grad school and everybody tip-toes around so we don't disturb him... FPK3...
... Well, I haven't got much to talk about. Working on a new fleet of ships for for the Space Empires V beta, adding features to VirMin when the grand kids...
How *is* SE V coming along? I just found out abut it a couple of weeks ago, and now I'm looking forward to it... ... From: Todd Zircher tzircher@... ...
... The beta testing is coming along fine. There are lots of incremental updates as the development progresses. It's good to see people on the ball and...
... The Space Empires series is perhaps the best scifi space strategy series ever. (MOO and MOO2 were there, but MOO3 disqualified them from winning any...
Agreed. The customization abilities are just wonderful. And I agree with the MoO3 comment. I have to think that if they'd stuck with their original plans it...
I saw this mentioned on the TML... [quote] Ah. Yes. But as I've mentioned a time or two before, if you know the approximate location of the opposing...
... Sure. It's somewhat valid but not as useful as you might think, because your focusing cone will (a) reflect sunlight, and (b) unless actively cooled by...
... If you ARE into _Ringworld_, this is quite simply the best source available. If I didn't have it already, I would pay that Buy It Now price without a...
... 1) Assume both of you are using this technology. How do you know where to point your cone the the other guy cannot see it, if you can't see them? Hiding...
... Just to add ... when the game was published, the latest Known Space book to have been published was _The Ringworld Engineers_. Since then we've had a large...
... You bought it again ? Did you pay more than a copy of Web and Starship would have set you back ? </grin> -- We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to...
... If I didn't have it already then I wouldn't have posted the link :> ... Not great, IMHO. ... Agree; if I ever run it that would be my preferred mode....
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Sep 15, 2005 6:56 am
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Greetings: "In fact, for some reason I think I read that the _Ringworld_ game's expanded background info was used as a bible for the "Man-Kzin Wars" books.)" ...
... Hmm, maybe I should drag out mine, altho' it's incomplete (the complete set that it replaced was auctioned via the TML; I was big on buy-to-read-and-resell...
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Sep 15, 2005 6:05 pm
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hi .. ... how exactly is this supposed to work? no matter what the radiator is shaped like, it will still radiate in all directions - unless you have the ship...
... Yes indeed. It is a wee bit dated, but as a sourcebook it is without par, and is about two orders of magnitude better than Baen's _Guide to Larry Niven's...
... without ... to ... Per some rumours I heard at the time, they tried to. Chaosium got their Ringworld license during Niven's "bad contracts" period, and ...
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