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3527: Re: [MUD-Dev] Mud Settings

JC Lawrence <claw@under.Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:
>Greg Munt<greg@uni-corn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Probably the best comparison would be Jack Vance's "Fire Upon the
>Deep" meets Zindell's "Neverness" meets Myer's "Silverlock" meets
>Gibson's "Neuromancer".  I'm not really heading for a theme, more a
>semi-congealed nightmare.

Credit where credit is due dept.:

_A Fire Upon the Deep_ was written by Vernor Vinge, not Jack Vance.
Vinge has also written several other novels that would make good settings
for games:  _The Peace War_ and its sequel _Marooned in Realtime_ and 
_The Witling_.  His short story "True Names" (collected in _True Names
and Other Dangers_) is one of the best pieces of cyberpunk fiction I've
ever read.
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