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|    Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) to nuny@bid.nes    |
|    Re: My Sci-Fi setting    |
|    04 Mar 17 09:50:14    |
      From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com              On 3/4/17 2:34 AM, nuny@bid.nes wrote:       > On Friday, March 3, 2017 at 2:54:34 PM UTC-8, MrAnderson wrote:       >> Ok, so in original variant the humans on Arda are not connected any way to       >> Earth, they are more like... Fantasy humans? You don't see a mention of       Earth       >> colonizating the planets in LOTR, Skyrim, Witcher and all that stuf :p       >       > When I first read LOTR I could accept it as far history that ignored       traditional Biblical and other similar stuff. I'm too old to buy that now, and       I *need* a believable backstory so Skyrim and so forth fail to interest me.       >       > I'm one of those guys who needs *something* to suspend my disbelief from.       >               Seriously? The entirety of fantasy literature is closed to you because       you can't even accept the setting?               It's an alternate universe where humans evolved on that world instead       of Earth; said universe also has magic as well as our standard physics.                                   --        Sea Wasp        /^\        ;;;        Website: http://www.grandcentralarena.com Blog:       http://seawasp.livejournal.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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