RE: Free Cal/Tex

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From:	Ground Zero Games[SMTP:jon@gzero.dungeon.com]
Sent:	Sunday, May 31, 1998 6:11 PM
To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	Re: Free Cal/Tex

>   I was rummaging around in my old books when I came across an H. Beam
>Piper	double book. One of the stories was "Lone Star Planet" (the
other
>was "Four Day Planet" -by ACE Science Fiction.)
>   I think the background would be suitable for Free Cal/Tex and FT/SG.
>In the book the local ranchers herd 'Supercows'(about the size of a
>locomotive, and the skin is twice as tough) with light armor. A small
>rancher has about a company worth of vehicles and a large rancher about
a
>battalion. By the way we are talking about contra gravity vehicles.
>    For full thrust you have the Solar League, New Texas, and other
>humans; for aliens you have the z'Srauff.
>
>   It is a nice backgrounder for games including Free Cal/Tex. By the
way
>they moved the "Alamo" onto a spaceship and took it with them to 'New
>Texas'.
>
>Tom Hughes

Sounds fun  :)
Anyone know if the book(s) are still in print anywhere?
(Hey, more aliens with apostrophies.....)

Jon (GZG)

All the lists say it's out of print. You'll have to pick up a 2nd hand
copy.

John Shoemark