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Post by andrewwright on Oct 23, 2023 15:52:51 GMT
Hi! "Erudite and incisive" does sound a little nicer than "scathing and malicous". Where is Red Dragon Pass and all the brand new Virtual Realities though? Where? Dunno, maybe sleepyscholar can enlighten us as to the state of play re: Red Dragon Pass?
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Post by sleepyscholar on Jan 4, 2024 1:27:33 GMT
Hi! "Erudite and incisive" does sound a little nicer than "scathing and malicous". Where is Red Dragon Pass and all the brand new Virtual Realities though? Where? Dunno, maybe sleepyscholar can enlighten us as to the state of play re: Red Dragon Pass? I'm not called sleepyscholar for nothing. Only just woke up and noticed this. Unlike The Wailing World, Red Dragon Pass is lost to the world for ever, I fear. All those new Virtual Reality books ended up as Fabled Lands or Vulcanverse. But I'm glad to see Per back. Am I right, Per, that you coined the phrase 'Sucks seawater'?
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Post by Per on Jan 4, 2024 18:58:21 GMT
But I'm glad to see Per back. Am I right, Per , that you coined the phrase 'Sucks seawater'? Hi there! I've seen you flashing by (along with Dave and Jamie) while speed-time-travelling through the Fantazines. I had to dig deep into my old mail files to uncover the important historical matter of the seawater, and it's slightly ambiguous. First in November 2003 it seems we had this exchange: Then I wrote in 2004: So it's not entirely clear from this whether I was quoting an actual review or comment, as implied in the first exchange - unlike the "blows" review it's not in the reviews archive, so in that case it must have been some comment or post on one of the defunct sites - or whether I was paraphrasing, as implied in the later post. But just possibly this could jog someone's memory. Evidently by 2004 it was not just an in-joke about the perception of your books, as Andrew W. was referring to Mark Smith's VR books as "rancid sea water". How long until we can get an AI to "write a Water Margin-themed gamebook using Virtual Reality rules in the style of Paul Mason, no sea water"?
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