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| From | Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett |
| Date | 2018-06-20 21:45 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <pgfahu$tg$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <pgdlf0$9ea$1@reader1.panix.com> <7c17972a-4b25-4c19-8310-d01e8b13e411@googlegroups.com> <pgekgl$2od$1@reader1.panix.com> <pgeus5$m47$1@dont-email.me> <pAnIp8.uFG@kithrup.com> |
On 6/20/2018 7:24 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article <pgeus5$m47$1@dont-email.me>, > Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote: >> On 6/20/2018 3:29 PM, James Nicoll wrote: >>> In article <7c17972a-4b25-4c19-8310-d01e8b13e411@googlegroups.com>, >>> Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I've forgotten the webcomic's name whose places seemed >>>> to be random lifts from the atlas of Scotland; then >>>> I learned that the map was an accurate one, but IIRC >>>> in New Zealand. >>> >>> Ah. My cheat for a campaign was to use a map of Sundaland. Rotated so >>> nobody recognized it. >>> >> One game company as their official campaign map use a map of England >> rotated 90 degrees clockwise. > > Somebody once, just for the heck of it, posted a picture of a > continent and invited us to identify it. Turned out to be > Antarctica, rotated and without snow. > Given its location, the idea that rotating Antarctica would make it harder recognize seems strange. Removing the snow, that I can believe. -- Inquiring minds want to know while minds with a self-preservation instinct are running screaming.
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[review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-20 13:39 +0000
Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2018-06-20 10:56 -0700
Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-20 18:24 +0000
Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-06-20 14:18 -0700
Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-20 21:53 +0000
Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-06-20 22:29 +0000
Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-06-20 18:26 -0700
Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-21 02:24 +0000
Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-06-20 21:45 -0700
Re: [review] Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant (Astreiant, book 2) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-06-20 16:34 -0700
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