On 7/20/2018 8:47 PM, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> I'm sure many of us are fantasy fans, if perhaps less so than SF or Space
> Opera. I'm equally sure that many of us have read at least part of the
> Thieves' World series, and know the genesis of that project.
>
> So...
>
> Suppose I were to propose a similar project for Freelance Traveller: You
> come up with a character, and you write stories. After other characters
> appear, you can use them in your stories, but you can't kill them (unless
> you own the character) or do permanent physical damage (unless the
> character's owner allows). More-or-less everything would happen in a city,
> general TL of 8 (no grav control), but commo, medicine, and computers can
> be as high as TL10. The city is the "port city/startown" of a downport that
> handles mostly ship's boats or modular cutters coming down from skyside,
> with perhaps the occasional scout/courier (Type S) or free trader (Beowulf
> or Marava).
>
>    1. Who would be interested in participating (and willing to commit the
>       time to actually write)?
>
>    2. How well should the city be defined before getting started?
>
>    3. Would people be interested in_reading_  this?

I would be interested in both participating and reading.  The city
should be defined with key NPCs (government, police, military, etc.), an
outlined civic structure/social contract of how things fit together to
remove cultural issues from distracting from the prose, and I think it
needs to be higher tech.  Speaking personally, if I wanted to read about
current tech and reasonable future tech, I can read a techno thriller or
near-future speculative fiction.  I'd like to see the full panorama of
what the OTU has to offer, not something that my simple TL8 mind might
be able to grasp.  :-)

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