A four horse wagon can transport 4000 lbs of material. The standard unit of construction is a man-week. Overthrow an evil noble or clear an area of wilderness. Massachusetts is defined as an item or particles which people search for and find when they look in their hankies.Ĭlay to Marble Construction in AD&D by Chris Felton. Evolves from parlour game in which you decide what place names should mean. The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. Barrington Bayley's The Zen Gun Posts manned by robots and IQ enhanced pigs, deadpan humour and loony physics leaves you numb and overawed. John Sladek's TikTok includes a nuclear powered land aircraft carrier and ex-domestic robot Tik-Tok rises ot the Vice Presidency leaving a trail of bodies. Terri Carr's Best SF of the Year includes Silverberg, Gibson, Pohl, Leguin, Carr etc. An anthology by Maxim Jakubowski Lands of Never includes stories by Silverberg, Aldiss, Evans, Carter, Grant, Ballard etc. Dave's favourite author, James Branch Cobell's The Silver Stallion is moving, erudite and witty with hordes of fantasy cliche's, including a story in which a Christian dies on the battlefield and is mistakenly taken up by a Valkyrie to Valhalla to become a god.
A splendid allegory about creativeness, clumsy, overwhimsical writing. The reader must give life to fantasy by reading and adding as the author uses up his imaginative resources. The real world bits are printed in Red and the fantasy bits in Green. The most hyped book is Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, best seller, film in production. Savage hand to mouth combat with fifteen dice Irish Whiskey. Columnist Pete Tamblyn playtests TSR's new game Legless. Critical Mass Seasonal Spirit, by Dave Langford.