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[bryant]

I promised the Lensman series, and thus the Lensman series will be mashed. Onwards, stalwart companions!

If you haven’t read the Lensman books, you should. They are a fundamental part of science fiction history; get past the sexism and you’ll find a surprisingly liberal — even radical — set of ideals. Particularly in Children of the Lens. You’ll also find big explosions, and everyone likes big explosions.

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[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Is the fact that the totalitarian enemy is drug-addicted part of the Lensman source material? Because it might be more colorful to have the freedom-loving pirates be the drug users.

[bryant]

Alas, it is. I badly wanted to make the pirates drug-users; it's more honest to the source material. But the struggle for Civilization in the Lensman books is in large part the struggle against the drug trade. It's so integral to the books that I couldn't break away from it.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Yeah, its a huge theme in the books.

Which means the William S Burroughs pirates are just right out.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I figured. Never actually read Lensman, though I have read some other Doc Smith space opera. "Skylark of Space", I think?

Maybe there could be good drugs and bad drugs?

A Burroughsian game would be a good time.

[bryant]

You've seen Over the Edge, right?

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I guess I meant to type "a Burroughsian pirate game" (which Jeremiah has threatened before). Not that you couldn't have pirates in OtE.

[bryant]

Yeah, and there's the always popular "move Al Amarja to another time" game. (Popular in the relative sense, that is.) So you could do Monique D'Aubainne, pirate queen...

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Nice. I also like (was it Ken Hite's idea?) the "William S. Burroughs' John Carter Drug-Lord of Mars" mashup.

Hey: I was trying to think up an original riff on either the Jungle Lord or Great White Hunter archetype for Brant's game tonight. Maybe I'll be William S Burroughs' Tarzan. Has this been done, I wonder?

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

ps. "Has this been done?" was a joke.

I may still do the character, though.