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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5622198" data-attributes="member: 40177">Fun story - I remember reading the original RIFTS book's summary of North America, and thinking that it was pretty well thought out.  Siembieda seemed to have a bit more knowledge of North America than many writers.  But then I started reading world books of places I'd actually visited, and realized that, nope, he was just using popular cliches and using that to inform his knowledge of the area.  For example, RIFTS Canada.  The chapter on British Columbia (the west coast of Canada!  Bigger than California!  If it were a country, it'd still be one of the top 20 largest countries in the world!) is exactly one page.  Apparently, nobody lives here.Vancouver?  The western hub?  One of the greatest cities of North America, and one of the largest in Canada?  Not a word is mentioned.  Nope, apparently, it's just a bunch of natives, trees, and ley lines.  I believe he also mentions that Vancouver is situated on Vancouver Island, which, while a common mistake among tourists, shows that he never picked up a book.And that's the problem.  The books are written by someone who will not do fact-checking, and will assume he already knows about the subject.  Always.  And if anyone questions that, he never says "Oops, my mistake".  RIFTS England is just a bunch of Arthurian stuff with very little info on Geography or places to explore (except i think Big Ben is now a supercomputer, which is pretty much de rigeur for Siembieda).  RIFTS South America is about vampires.  Etc.  Long Story short, the setting is just too Wahoo for me.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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