Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

Many Interspacial Interfogulated Radium powered umbrellas of course. As well as hundreds left hand gloves made of the finest Corinthian Leather. Perhaps we might also find a bunch of various sized Ahoggya ear muffs.

Shemek.

Probably, and highly likely!!!

Originally Posted by d(sqrt(-1))

I believe that there was at least another book planned after "Lords of Tsamra". Can't remember where I saw that though.

The complete list of novels includes the 1950s unfinished one, "Man of Gold", "Flamesong", "Lords of Tsamra", "Prince of Skulls", "Death of Kings", and the last one "Beside the Dark Pool of Memory" which exists as a draft of thirteen chapters and was both unfinished and unpublished.

Originally Posted by d(sqrt(-1))

I believe that there was at least another book planned after "Lords of Tsamra". Can't remember where I saw that though.

Oh, I see. OK.

Shemek.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I'm assuming "Lords of Tsamra", "Prince of Skulls", and "Death of Kings".

You can still find these on line, and in second hand bookstores. I recently saw MoG for the princely sum of $2.00, and PoS for $5.00 at a bookstore. However, I don't know what they go for on line at the moment.

Shemek.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

.... and the last one "Beside the Dark Pool of Memory" which exists as a draft of thirteen chapters and was both unfinished and unpublished.

I wouldn't mind seeing this, even unfinished. Do you recall what the basic premise of the novel was? Perhaps a thumbnail sketch?

Shemek.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

And here's an intriguing thought for GMs:

There has to be a 'lost luggage' section at the spaceport. I do wonder what might be there - assuming we can find the spaceport, in the first place...

"Something just moved past my leg!"

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

You can still find these on line, and in second hand bookstores. I recently saw MoG for the princely sum of $2.00, and PoS for $5.00 at a bookstore. However, I don't know what they go for on line at the moment.

Shemek.

On used book site, for next to nothing. On gamer collectables site, absurdly high prices. Since they're scarce - the print runs totaled maybe 250 copies across the years - they're 'collectable'.

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

I wouldn't mind seeing this, even unfinished. Do you recall what the basic premise of the novel was? Perhaps a thumbnail sketch?

Shemek.

What we have opens some years after the end of "Death of Kings", and sort of tries to continue the history of the world. It's got a very tentative feel, as Phil had finished his huge over-arching plot line of Elara and Mirusiya, and these chapters are a way for him to try and start moving on from there. He did multiple drafts of the existing texts, and just didn't feel comfortable with any of them. Some of the individual scenes are very good, but the work as a whole doesn't seem to 'gel'. I'd suspect that if he'd finished it, and then gone back over it, it would have been pretty coherent.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

"Something just moved past my leg!"

And just how many times did these immortal words follow Phil's "Roll percentile dice, please" over the years?

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Inspector Morse with heavy weapons.

I saw what you did there.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

*500 XP

What is Triplanetary, by E.E. "Doc" Smith?

Originally Posted by AsenRG

And I don't know what the term in Ancient China translated to, but I'm almost sure I've read in some explorer's work that it was, indeed, tax deductable. Don't quote me on that, since I've read said explorer's notes about 18 years ago...but it sure seemed the Chinese merchant he had as an intermediary was treating them as tax deductable.

Modern China has an underground industry in creating fake expense receipts for government and other uses. I had to explain to one local consultant that no, he couldn't use fake receipts to justify his expenses to my US-based Accounting Department. Bureaucrats and bureaucracy regulate and control, entrepreneurs find new ways to make the bureaucracy pay.