Mike Combs' fiction nonwithstanding, are there are fiction stories or
computer games on space hab? I have looked around for Mars games, but
they are rare, and I am guessing that space settlements are rarer
still.
--- In spacesettlers, "babbler36" wrote:
> or computer games on space hab?
Mike's stuff is quite good. My lottery ticket didn't win Saturday,
but Mike is still on my list of folks to contact if the numbers ever
line up right (movie rights and stuff). In particular, I think that
Combs' Disigning Paradise could be combined with O'Neill's 2081 to
make quite an interesting feature-length film. It would be Wendell
Drake, from the distant past rather than Eric Rawson, from the
distant Kuiper Belt who toured Earth for a look at the end of the
21st Century, and the space flight would come at the end rather than
the beginning.
> I have looked around for Mars games, but they are rare, and I am
> guessing that space settlements are rarer still.
If Paramount will ever get up off of their buttocks and make those
movies that they have the rights to, you will likely be seeing many,
many Mars games. But they won't really be Mars, they will be Edgar
Rice Burroughs' Barsoom. Not the sort of hard science fiction that
you are looking for.
Mack Reynolds wrote three books with Dean Ing: The Lagrangists,
Lagrange Five, and Terror at Lagrangia. Ben Bova wrote a book called
Colony. Babalon 5 has a sort of Bernal Sphere thing going. There
was a 3-D IMAX movie called L-5: First City in Space. The other
thing I want to do with my winnings is to get the technical training
needed to make video/computer games with High Frontier themes.
> But, you never know...
ideas of the sorts of games that might be played in space (and the
possible themes and background window-dressing for books, movies, TV
shows, and computer games).
Xenophile (who will be happy to talk to any of you here who want to
use one of my sports in a story)
Greetings,
them planets as well,
"The Reality Dysfunction"
"The Neutronium Alchemist"
"The Naked God"
by Peter F Hamilton,
they are not hard hard science fiction but are okay (the ending of the
third book was a bit of a let down, well for me anyway).
He also wrote "A Second Chance at Eden", which I liked better.
Darren.
Xenophile wrote:
WRT gaming, this comes the closest to filling the bill of anything I'm aware
of:
http://www.spacecolony.com/
theory regarding body english than it is about the space colony setting.
Regards,
Mike Combs
From: babbler36 [mailto:babbler36@...]
Mike Combs' fiction nonwithstanding, are there are fiction stories or
computer games on space hab? I have looked around for Mars games, but
they are rare, and I am guessing that space settlements are rarer
still.
But, you never know...
Don't forget Arthur C. Clarke's Rama Trilogy. There is also a
computer game for Rama. I can't say that it is or is not good, but
there you go.
I actually played the computer game; similar game play to "Myst" in
terms of being a slow-paced puzzle game. There were regrettably few
scenes (maybe one or two that I remember) showing a view of the whole
interior of Rama; I was quite disappointed. To be fair, I believe it
was quite dark in the cylinder until late in the story, so that might
have guided their storyboarding and budgeting for CGI.
--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"