Re: FT Novels

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Allan Goodall wrote:
> At 11:50 AM 7/10/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >I think that instead of full novels or compilations of storys (at
least
> >not at first...:)  )   How about including a short story or two in
each
> >product? 
> 
> Oh, yuck. Ick, pooh, blech. Unless you can get a REALLY good writer to
do up
> a decent story (and not just some Heinlein wannabe who can sort of
string
> two sentences together, but can't do dialogue, plot or
characterization to
> save himself), I'd rather see the space taken up with rules and ship
> designs. At least I'm likely to read those.

I second this -- there are too many mediocre science-fiction stories
being published right now, and it would be kind of sad to see space in
the Full Thrust rulebook taken up by yet another skim-and-forget short
story.

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