In a message dated 1/27/2004 8:28:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Also, when CA and GU2 seem to conflict, I am going to favor GU2. (I have > very > mixed feeling about CA.) > A view I think everyone involved with the project came to have. GU2 is specifically formatted for the gamer. --with a bit thrown in about Jijo Ascendant as a kicker. CA lost direction by never having a single purpose. There's some serious factual expansion, some light humor, and then there are inside jokes such as the Siqul that go over the head of anyone that doesn't know computer languages, or where S. Jones works in his non-gaming hours. It wasn't thick enough for the lightly dedicated Uplift reader to want to buy. They just like the stories. If we could triple the text, double the pictures, and only raise the price by 50%, then I'd like to be the first to suggest that the second edition be called Avoiding Aliens Earthclan has made a solid contact with one side of the historic galactic alliances. Let's be careful about grabbing hold of the opposite pole and completing a circut that tends to fry one to a crisp. William Taylor ------------------------ Can't wait for the Cole Porter: "There's a plan to the Tandu that can do you in." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
