New Issue of IROSF (Volume II, Numer 1)
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005 at
5:42 pm
The Internet Review of Science Fiction is a year old. Here are the contents of the latest issue:
- Editorial – It’s Our Birthday!
- Interview – An Interview with Michael Moorcock
- Feature – The Best Short Stories of 2004
- Con Report – A Report from Archon 28
- Sub-Genre Spotlight – Steampunk
- Essay – So What Exactly Is Fantasy?
- Essay – Raygun Carnage
- Essay – Deciphering the Text Foundations of Traveller
- Review – The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson: A Review in Three Acts
- Review – The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
- Review – Murder of Angels by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Review – Short Reviews of Short Fiction
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The article on the Traveller RPG is excellent. It deconstructs, in detail, the probable, and possible, influences earlier SF had on the original Traveller RPG. I actually have the original game box and most of the original books. I can attest to the ‘DIY’ aspect of the game. Its basically just a set of rules to cover character creation and combat. Everything else was left to the GM to figure out. Quite a difference to today’s RPGs, especially of the D20 variety.
I see that Traveller is still around today in a D20 and GURPS format. I may check them out. In fact, GURPS also has stuff based on Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun, the Miles Vorkosigan series, and a harder SF setting called Transhuman Space. Nice!
I’m going to sell my whole Traveller collection (actually, I’ve started already). So if there’s anything you need…e-mail me!