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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.   
      
      
      
      
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