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So far as making the negotiations themselves a satisfying climax is concerned, I think this short story which won one of Fantasy Faction's monthly contests accomplished that wonderfully. The whole story is basically negotiation: Monthly Short Story Winner: Politics, Scheming, and Intrigue |...

I'm not completely certain the landmarks would work. You'd get phases of the planet, which would obscure part those landmarks part of the time. And unless the planet's day is very long, like Venus', the landmarks would come around quite fast. If I'm reading your diagram below correctly...

If I'm not mistaken, the planet and star should still move across the moon's sky, even if it's tidally locked. If nothing else, the constellations would probably shift as the moon followed its planet around the star. That could function as the equivalent of a year. Edit: the planet would...

While true in theory, I can't recall the last time I saw a prophecy that was flat out wrong. It's much like heroes dying. It's possible, but experience tells you it's not going to happen. Those instances where it does occur stand out because they smash that preconception. It's certainly...

This is what I first thought of when I saw the thread title. It's the simplest reasoning for it.

As far as I can recall, Renaissance/Late Medieval Pikemen didn't use shields. Hellenistic pike phalanxes did. The latter also tended to be a slow and steady glacier, an anvil for cavalry to hammer the enemy center with, while the former were quite adept at rapid attacks (the Swiss were famous...

Oh, without a doubt. And I'd say that Red Nails has far less problems than a few of the other stories in the collection. Still, there are points in the Conan stories where Howard seems downright progressive for the era. I bought a collection of Lovecraft's works shortly after getting the...

Finished up a playthrough of Fallout 4, and now I'm on to my first run through Fallout 3.

Right now I've got a collection of all of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. It was a bargain at $ 0.99 on Kindle. I'm currently on "Red Nails". The style, and some of the themes, might not fly today but the stories are certainly entertaining.

There are theories that Tyrion is Aerys' bastard son by Joanna Lannister, but the evidence so far isn't near as strong as it was for R+L=J. Just a statement or two from Tywin and the fact that Aerys took "liberties" with the bedding ceremony at Tywin's wedding. The books had a boy claiming...

A lot is going to depend on what sort of star your sun is. A system centered on a red dwarf would be very different from a sun like star, which would be very different from a blue supergiant. So...what is your sun?

I read "The Music Room" by Stephen King today. Despite being really short (only about two pages), it was remarkably creepy. In other news, I finally finished A Dance with Dragons recently. Now to wait for The Winds Of Winter.

As the first poster points out, it's highly unlikely the entire male population would be killed off in a war. Between men not fit to fight but who are fertile, men who don't see combat in their military roles, men who have important jobs on the homefront that can't be filled by this society's...

I can tell you that infected bat populations would be culled. You'd have to be screened before donating blood, if there's any gap between infection and turning. The water is trickier. Having sink water carry it implies that water treatment plants are incapable of killing it. I'm not sure...

It doesn't bother me if it's something worth thinking deeply about. If it's about a trivial matter, it can become irritating.