 |
THE OBSERVATORY Fiction and Speculation |
| Just what it says ... fiction and speculation! |
 |
Navigation
Return to Observatory
Fiction and
HOT Links! Search GoogleExtrasolar
|
 |
Contents --
It's Toy Time! (April 15, 2001) Available now! Newly updated version of my Spring Style battleship-specification simulator, Planet climate simulator, and Starship / Fusion / Spacewep package of space-oriented sims! Build that 90,000 ton superdreadnought you always dreamed of! Create a hellish world you can exile your enemies to! Find out why a carton of skim milk is a deadly space weapon, if it hits you at 90 kilometers per second! Fun for boys and girls of all ages!
Space Warfare (Sometime in 2001) Coming eventually! (I've been promising it on this page since last summer ... But hey, at least I posted the sim software, even if I still haven't done a page on it.)
Interstellar Trade: A Primer (February 20, 2001) I confess to being a sucker for a type of science fiction that is not always the most literary: space SF. At bottom this is surely the tourist impulse ...
The Tough Guide to the Known Galaxy (February 14, 2001) These pages are, of course, a shameless ripoff of Diana Wynne Jones's The Tough
Guide to Fantasyland.
The Tough Guide to Archetypes (February 14, 2001) Having worked the Spirited Princess racket myself in my novel-under-submission, Catherine of Lyonesse, I was more than ordinarily amused / horrified by Ms. Wynne Jones's brilliant, brutal survey of fantasy conventions ... (Finally corrected the misspelling of "archetypes!")
Tarrantry (July 19, 2000) In a world only slightly different from our own, geological forces uplifted the Continental Shelf to form an island, west of Brittany and south of Ireland. This island came to be known as Tarrantry. From a duchy of medieval France it became in time an independent nation, small in population but prosperous from trade and redoubtable at sea ...
|
|||
Back to Top
|
|