In a message dated 10/16/2002 7:58:26 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Yes, it's definitely too bad you lost that notebook. :-) >> John F. Carr was sent everything. He has it on file. But he has been busy with other Piper writings. Alpha will be the biggest continent, northern hemisphere, then Beta to the right, then Gamma to the right again. I think Epsilon was both the smallest and only in the southern hemisphere. I gave it an axial tilt of 17 degrees, and 65% ocean. Both being arbitrary figures. It would be interesting to design two Pacific type basins for the two moons. But the one rule of working in Piper's universe is that you have to use technology & concepts that existed in 1964. So I didn't know if that was legal. I added over fifty names for new planets, with the names taken from the two sources I had figured out that Piper had used. [The 13 volume set on mythology had a plate on Svantovit.] The best one I did, IMHO, was Munchausen. Radiation from the sun was so extreme that the planet looked dead. But after the sun went down both plant and animal life came out of the ground. The plants fed off of the afterglow, the strength of the sun being that intense. So, during the daytime, it was a baron planet. But it was lying. [Insert rimshot here.] Another planet, I forget the name, was based upon all fish having non biodegradable bladders. They would only eventually erode. Most shorelines were clogged for a hundred feet. And there was a huge Sargasso Sea area. William Taylor _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
