Interesting idea, to be honest I'd never heard of it before these emails. Will have to see if I can chase up a copy of Thieves' World.

I'd be interested in reading and maybe writing for the project, although I agree with Kurt, would prefer to see it set in a higher tech level.

Brett.

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From: xxxxxx@simplelists.com <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> On Behalf Of Kurt Feltenberger
Sent: Saturday, 21 July 2018 12:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [TML] Hmmm... There's a flagpole. I wonder, let me run this idea up it...

On 7/20/2018 8:47 PM, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> I'm sure many of us are fantasy fans, if perhaps less so than SF or
> Space Opera. I'm equally sure that many of us have read at least part
> of the Thieves' World series, and know the genesis of that project.
>
> So...
>
> Suppose I were to propose a similar project for Freelance Traveller:
> You come up with a character, and you write stories. After other
> characters appear, you can use them in your stories, but you can't
> kill them (unless you own the character) or do permanent physical
> damage (unless the character's owner allows). More-or-less everything
> would happen in a city, general TL of 8 (no grav control), but commo,
> medicine, and computers can be as high as TL10. The city is the "port
> city/startown" of a downport that handles mostly ship's boats or
> modular cutters coming down from skyside, with perhaps the occasional
> scout/courier (Type S) or free trader (Beowulf or Marava).
>
>    1. Who would be interested in participating (and willing to commit the
>       time to actually write)?
>
>    2. How well should the city be defined before getting started?
>
>    3. Would people be interested in_reading_  this?

I would be interested in both participating and reading.  The city should be defined with key NPCs (government, police, military, etc.), an outlined civic structure/social contract of how things fit together to remove cultural issues from distracting from the prose, and I think it needs to be higher tech.  Speaking personally, if I wanted to read about current tech and reasonable future tech, I can read a techno thriller or near-future speculative fiction.  I'd like to see the full panorama of what the OTU has to offer, not something that my simple TL8 mind might be able to grasp.  :-)

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