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sTabletop Officer Training Corp: Showing the Colors
Wednesday , 1, March 2017 Tabletop Games, Wargames 1 CommentYou’ve got your figures. You’ve got your basic terrain set up. Maybe you’ve played a practice game or two. But things still look flat and dull. When we last left the figures, they were based, primed, and ready for paint. Next time we’re going to look at the single most powerful painting technique that you […]
Gardner Dozois on Fantasy’s Extinction Event
Wednesday , 1, March 2017 Jeffro Appendix N, Comment 43 CommentsA full appreciation of just what Campbellian style “Hard SF” really is all about is only possible with an understanding of when it happened and what cultural forces drove it into its temorary and artificial dominance. For that, the most concise summary you’re liable to find is in the preface to Gardner Dozois’s Modern Classics of Fantasy: […]