Andrew Moore's Blog, page 18

Dune's Biggest Flaw

Baron isn't even a high rank. The Harkonnens must be small-time. I can't take them seriously as antagonists.

Total Stagnation

How long have we been on fantasy? When will we move on to fantadee? I project it will require that we transcend this thing called "pages."

Thoughts on SD Gundam G Generation Eternal

By the time you finish reading the title, your AP will be full again. Truly Eternal/10.

Important Scientific Concepts

Psydroponics
I don't know what that means, but that won't stop me from throwing it in a story. That's the true spirit of speculative fiction.

In Cobalt Manor

When someone claimed to have mastered the manifold techniques of Cobalt Manor, people doubted him, for understandable reasons."There hasn't been a living person there for thirty-six years, and neither does the manor stand," they objected.
"And yet," the man said.
A series of duels convinced the world of his sincerity. Rather than resenting the opposition, he gave advice to anyone who wished to attain what he had done, which was to go to the ruin and be heedful.
A company assembled of adventurous fighters to make the attempt. After a month of resting in the field, half of them left, called by bolder deeds. In the second month, the remaining cleaned the manor's floors and walls. In the third month, those who endured their servitude became disciples and began to learn the outer techniques. In the sixth month, they began the inner techniques, the first disciple returned, and Cobalt Manor was reborn.
Finis

Word Instinct

"Orison" looks to me like it should have some kind of engineering meaning. For instance, the counterweight and the sling together of a trebuchet or such should be the orison. And yet, it is not so.

Addendum

Unfortunately it starts with a Y, and that all but disqualifies it according to Super Robot Wars roster rules.

Speaking of Yu-Gi-Oh

If Yu-Gi-Oh got into Super Robot Wars Y, it wouldn't be the biggest stretch in the series.

Defeated by the Pros Again

Here we are trying to think of evocative titles such as Dragon Ambition or Ambition of Chaotic Inheritors, and then they just bust out GQuuuuuux like it's nothing. By "we" of course I mean people coming up with names for Yu-Gi-Oh sets.

Getting on the Wagon

How can books leech off the continuing success of open-world games? The answer is simple: Lengthy tower-climbing segments followed by even longer descriptions of everything in the vicinity. People love that stuff, no matter what was said in your fiction workshop.