gillpolack @ 2014-07-17T03:27:00

I'm up a bit late because I was looking for missing files. The ones I needed are now safely located and I've worked out work for tomorrow/today. I also found, however, the list of proposed banquets that Conflux had to play with at one stage during the Great Banquet Sequence. I had the resources to research and create menus for all of these. Read it and mourn what might have been (the one that actually happened from this list was the Prohibition Banquet):

At the court of the Borgias
Stories from the heptameron
La vie en Boheme
Prohibition
Frontier food (US late 19th century)
Cyrano de Bergerac goes to the moon (1647)
Metropolis (New York, 1927 )
Belle Epoque
Rebellious minds 1968 (Ursula Le Guin Left Hand of Darkness published 1969 also Stanislaw Lem)
Little England dreams (Edwardian or a bit later)
Escaping to the adventure (golden age SF)
The truth behind white picket fences (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1950s)
Apocalypse Australia (1950s Melbourne)
At the Court of the Fairy Queen (Elizabeth I and her writers)