Re: (TFT) On Thud And Blunder

[raito@raito.com]

I'll also point out that Poul Anderson was a knight in the SCA, and so 
not unfamiliar with weapons. 

I also get a kick out of reading 'Uncleftish Beholding', which is a 
description of nuclear physics renderd in English using no Latinate 
words. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com

Quoting Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>:
> Neil wrote:
>
> http://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/on-thud-and-blunder/
>
> A classic, thanks  very much! Read this years ago, and have been
> vaguely wishing I could read it again, since. Particularly useful to
> would-be adventure designers/referees such as myself (at times). 
>
> >Jay wrote:
> >In the same vein is this;
> >
> >http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm
> >
> >"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later"
> >by Philip K. Dick, 1978
>
> and the Web-server wrote:
>
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /pkd_how2build.htm on this server. 
>
> Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to
> use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. 
>
> ??? Am I doing something wrong?
> -- 						- Mark     210-379-4635
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