That dive got me here:

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Watsonian_vs._Doylist

And from thence: " When canon is particularly contradictory, attempting to devise a Watsonian explanation can lead to theories so elaborate they become fanwank."

Lol!

The Tor link names a LOT of space series that have swords (in the comments, people kept posting new ones and the list is quite long).

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 4:44 PM Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

In case of it's interest, I've just spotted this:

https://www.tor.com/2020/05/26/five-sf-stories-that-mix-swords-and-starships/
which is apparently inspired by Traveller.

(It refers in turn to https://www.tor.com/2020/01/10/traveller-a-classic-science-fiction-simulator/ in case you missed it.)

tc

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