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The first chapter and the first exercise may just have ignited the fire I needed to actually start writing a novel I'e been "meaning to write" for at least fifteen years.

Okay, "Garrigan's Bems" by Mack Reynolds was legitimately hilarious. And if you've never tried it… Metaxa FTW!

Nick Pappas, hired-killer from Callisto, was strictly out for Pappas--out for Number One, as they used to say. And now those fools in the vanishing spaceship thought that number was up!

"Blind Play" by Chan Davis is a fantastic morality play every Libertarian should read right away.

Reading through the first rough draft with his own revisions… eye-opening and fascinating.

Read the first half of "Captives of the Thieve-Star," and so far it has the makings of an excellent Traveller adventure!

"Where mother love conflicts with social façade, the die is cast from antiquity in favor of sympathy."

“Working on films has a destructive aspect. It f you look over the history of filmmaking, you will see the ground littered with wreckage.”

Earth was like a lonely island in the sea of space, isolated from the happenings in the universe, believing itself all alone. Mankind knew nothing of the many intelligent races of the galaxies, of the galactic empires that had been founded and then destroyed again.