New book on the way

 I have ordered a new book. The shipping isn't cheap either and I don't want it in a month so I found another vendor just one suburb away but they order from overseas in out of stock print, so next month I will give a small review of what I think of the book. I got myself the science fiction world building guide by Stephen L Gillet. I am hoping that it will give me some very insightful ideas and help me behind the scenes. On the other hand I got some role playing books on world building also, they may not be the best (except for Gurps Space 4e) but they were given to me by an ex player/GM who felt that you can be too old to have an imagination anyway that doesn't matter.


The way I want my guides on world building to work isn't by making definitive rules but to make it modular so that it can be used easily everywhere else so this first version I am posting up here is just a prototype and the second time I go round I will make it more modular. So don't complain that using my made up fantastic system has impeded your imagination in anyway. Besides if you don't like what gets generated you can always change it.

In my multimedia class I have to do two illustrations over the weekend for my first assignment so it is going to be a bit of a stretch trying to work around a 21st and a festival. I also need photos for a postcard from another class, sketches of robots for a 3d class by next Thursday and  do my pseudocode and structured English for 4 exercises in action-script and lets not forget I am coughing and spluttering like a like an old rusted car.

You all want to know what the funny thing is.....

This is my first world building project and I don't even write. I just decided one day last year to start making my own worlds and universes I can escape to. I love books they are a great gift to this world and they can bring good and bad feelings but that doesn't matter it is just that you get to experience them. All the visual technology in the world does no such thing. I also feel sorry for those who can get no such thrill from a good book no matter how engaging.

Well I think that is enough for now, I will get back to those articles in some time, I have a bit of course work to do.