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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Homages (SPOILERS)
Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. You have been warned. Starkiller – In the early screenplays, there is a character named Luke Starkiller. When Han is running away from the Rathkars (sp?), their rolling is reminiscent of Indiana Jones running away from the … Continue reading
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The Way Things Work (in Star Trek)
Star Trek is my all-time favorite science fiction TV series. In this post, I want to take a deeper look inside the Star Trek universe itself and talk about an important technicality of commanding a starship. Several important caveats: this … Continue reading
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World Ships
A world that isn’t a natural world (or planet), but is instead an artificial world (or ship); a “world ship”. This trope most often occurs in science fiction, in both literary and visual expressions, but can be found in other genres. … Continue reading
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My Hollow Earth
The Hollow Earth tradition has a long history in mythology and literature. In this post, though, I do not intend to cover the history of the concept, but rather talk about how I created my own Hollow Earth, the Inner … Continue reading
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Glorantha
Glorantha is my favorite (role-playing) gaming world. I first got interested in it in middle school, when it was the official game setting for RuneQuest II (although it had featured in Chaosium’s two board games, White Bear and Red Moon, … Continue reading
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Introduction to Other Worlds
This blog is intended to be a place to discuss other worlds, whether those are in games (role-playing, board, or other), literature (science fiction and fantasy), TV shows, or movies. I had originally decided to make this a podcast series, … Continue reading
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