(urth) Dome, Dome on the Range

[David Stockhoff]

On 1/13/2011 1:36 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 1/13/2011 10:58 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> I thought the average was almost 250,000 mi.
>
> It is now, but in SWORD ch XXXII, Sev mentions "Not a glimmer showed 
> upon the waters of the lake, save for the green, reflected light that 
> fell from the myriad leaves of the Forest of Lune, fifty thousand 
> leagues away."
Ah, THAT again. I have to wonder if Wolfe wasn't messing with us by 
telling us how long a league was when every time a distance is 
calculated it results in an impossibility.
>
>>
>> I'm not sure what that would look like from Urth, but I certainly seem
>> to have asked the right person!
>
> It has been a while since I have mentioned that I do a lot of peer 
> review and fact-checking on role-playing game books. While this 
> includes a lot of fanciful "zapping" with super powers and such, the 
> publisher sjgames.com courts a lot of the hard-SF crowd by making a 
> point of consulting domain experts in the preparation of the books on 
> real world subjects like planetary science and biotechnology. This has 
> been a wonderful opportunity for me to work with some of the best 
> informed and well educated folks in the world, often of fannish bent, 
> and so much great stuff ends up glossed over in the books that I try 
> to pass along some of it where I can.
>
> And geting to run the top sekrit playtesting mailing lists where 
> top-posting is verboten and all posters can be held to account for 
> their laxity in quote-trimming is entirely a side benefit.
heh!


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