I’ve kicked off an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit, where you’re invited to pose questions about my work on OtherSpace, Knee Deep, Fallen Earth, and even my days as a journalist with The St. Petersburg Times and The Herald-Sun. Or about my childhood. Or adopting a son. Or traveling across the country with the late, great Huckleberry. Whatever! Ask away!
The Fringe is an independent territory that includes: Tomin Kora Ungstir Antimone Odari Fagin’s Riches is the most dominant organization in the region, a collective of pirates, smugglers, and thieves who are ruled by a shadowy figure known as Lord Fagin the Pirate King. He has his headquarters beneath the city of Freewheeling on Tomin…
Steven Campbell first came up with the idea of Hard Luck Hank in the 1990s as a pitch for articles in a fishing magazine. Now Hank’s the star of Campbell’s series of comedic pulp sci-fi stories. Campbell recently took the time to answer some questions: Wes Platt: When do you first remember wanting to write?…
The name given the territory under control of the reptiloid Nall and the Clawed Fist Fleet. Parallax worlds include: Nalhom Lebal Grimlahd Vollista Ist’thol’mek Ydahr The territory is divided from independent worlds such as Ungstir and Tomin Kora by a stretch of wrecked starship hulls known as The Line of Pain. Governance of the Parallax…
MUSH commands come in a couple of flavors. The first are hard-coded commands that are built into the source code of PennMUSH. The second are soft-coded commands, designed by programmers working on the MUSH and generally customized for the needs of that specific MUSH. Most soft-coded commands are preceded by a plus sign (+), while hard-coded…
The Stellar Consortium is an alliance of worlds that includes: Earth Luna Mars Castor Sivad G’ahnlo Phyrria Demaria Centauri Quaquan Its headquarters are on Earth. It is patrolled and defended by the Vanguard. The Consortium is led by a ruling council headed by an elected President.
“MUSH” stands for “Multi-User Shared Hallucination.” Really, it’s just a silly shorthand for a type of MUD (Multi-User Dimension) that uses a specific codebase, called PennMUSH (or TinyMUSH or TinyMUX or…you get the idea), to create a special text-based platform, accessible online around-the-clock, for purposes of roleplaying. Some simple comparisons to help give a better…
