Recent content by CordwainerFish

p.167 and following: per Tmap, Jefltsea subsector is in Enchakl sector, not Nialkridla, and it is in subsector P, not M (putting its worlds at different hex numbers).

p.154: The stanza for Fiaftashe sector and the one for Nshofref sector should be swapped.

That could turn into an interesting adventure hook. "You've got an ability that is useful but is so rare nobody knows how to train it... except for this one lady and it says here she just left on the latest Core Expedition; if you haul ass you might be able to catch up with her."

The other month I was assembling a Gundam model (one of the real expensive ones) and lost one of the laser cut metal stickers [1]. I kludged [2] a fake one out of tinfoil and explained it as the engineers on the White Base making do in a similar spirit... [1] The adhesive on those things is...

As Dr. Walter Gibbs so wisely said, user requests and rambling discussions are what computers are for.

To quote Harrison Ford: "Hey kid, it ain't that kind of movie.".

That may make a new kind of Crazy Ivan possible: cut thrust for a moment with no intention of yawing or firing, in hope of making the other guy evade a shot that isn't coming, and lose more thrust time than you do.

It's important to stay tethered in a zero g environment. but hopefully not to the half-melted body of your dead buddy.

Hasn't Matt said, many times, that it won't?

p.30: "one-parsec coreward of Zhdant" should be "one parsec coreward of Zhdant". I believe a review of a manual of style is in order.

I thought I had that and now I must have it. Damn your eyes.

Depending on the purpose of a station, it might be deader than Archduke Dulinor after 2200 Zulu, with just the legally mandated man and dog [1] standing watch in ops. A starport, on the other hand, is a station that never sleeps, because incoming traffic arrive at whatever time the gods of...

I could probably fill a shelf just with books currently in print on language construction.

I'd buy that in a hot second... but it'd more likely be a bookshelf. Maybe even a bookcase.

When I was astronomizing, once every year or two there'd be a news flash of a supernova in Messier This or NGC That (and if they were in the night sky where I lived and I could be bothered, I'd pack up my scope, drive to my dark sky site, and look at it). Nearby galaxies have a lot of eyes on...