Yeah I think I overstated it a bit but I was vaguely remembering this passage: "I am very old, oh man of the waste countries; long and long ago I came to this planet with others of my world, from the green planet Yag, which circles for ever in the outer fringe of this universe. We swept through...
Didn't one of REH Conan stories have a wizard from outer space? And Saber Hagen's book of swords turns out to be techno not magic right? (It's been so long since I read them I may be confused on that one)
I have recently come around to this as well. For me it was watching sportsball games. In American football the QB knows where every defence guy is yet can get blindsided. There is even special protections for both QBs and receivers cause a hit coming in at the slightly wrong angle can be...
For years (and I mean over a decade) I thought there was an insanely popular thread on a homebrew Coraline RPG. I finally opened it to see what the fuss was about and realized it was Coreline a sci-fi game.
I thought it was a weird yet possibly cool start to a new play by post game. Morris could be a computer running constant simulations and spitting out the percentages. Umbran would be the crack black ops guy running the missions. And Danny A is the retired gamer in hiding who knows more than is safe.
So I'm not the only one that gets stressed reading for pleasure? These multi 700 page books have about made me quit reading fiction for pleasure. But then I circle back to sci-fi and fantasy of the 60s-80s and feel better.
I am currently reading The Postman by Brian (inspired by the post...
Some people (GRR Martin) should know that the professor was writing mythology not historical fiction and as such tax tables in the Fourth Age are not really called for.