From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, October 4, 2014 10:31:51 AM UTC-4, bre...@sff.net wrote:   
   > On 10/4/2014 2:33 AM, William Vetter wrote:   
   > > On Friday, October 3, 2014 10:33:22 PM UTC-4, bre...@sff.net wrote:   
   >   
   > >> Weather is also an important part of worldbuilding. What would Hoth be,   
   > >> if it were not an ice planet?   
   >   
   > > I don't quite remember if that book actually had a monolithic worldwide   
   climate.  I don't think that's really plausible for an Earthlike world.   
   >   
   > It was George Lucas. Who was interested solely in how a world looked,   
   >   
   > and not whether it made sense at all. (How did a large mammal like a   
   >   
   > taun-taun get enough to eat, on an ice planet?)   
   >   
   Ah, you know what?  I thought you were talking about The Left Hand of Darkness   
   for some reason.   
      
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