Re: The sands of Mars and the gray shores of Luna

>Yup, and did you notice on the copyright info page who "Ian Douglas" 
> >really is? The books are credited to William H. Keith Jr.......
>Given that they are really very much like the rest of Keith's combat
>SF 
>output, I wonder why he is using a pseudonym this time?

William H. Keith has a website that explains that. He basically says
that 
many publishers tend to skip past established writers after a bit and go
for 
new talent. Keith said that he wrote by that name to avoid that
pitfall...

>Haven't read Semper Mars yet, but Lunar Marine (book 2) is pretty >good
as 
>this sort of stuff goes.

It was kinda out there, but the combat stuff was awesome. Keith/Douglas 
pretty much stuck to the real world, definately hard core sci-fi stuff
:)

Scott

PS: I thought Semper Mars was a bit better than Lunar Marine, worth the 
bucks

>Jon (GZG)
> >
> >So, like I'm now dying to try some of that stuff in Star Grunt.
Anybody 
>know
> >of any cool minis for troops in full environmental armor (space
suits)?
>
>Watch this space....  :-)
> >
> >Any ideas about how to fight Star Grunt in places with low gravity
(Mars 
>and
> >Luna), and zero g combat in space? I'm rereading the rules right now
and
> >might post my ideas later. Would love to hear what ya'll have to say.
> >
> >Scott
> >
> >
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