|
|
||||||||||||||||||
| Paizo Pathfinder® GameMastery® Planet Stories® Paizo Games | |||||||||||||||||||
| About Paizo Messageboards News Paizo Blog Help/FAQ | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Posts
 Recent Posts
I like the new look for Planet Stories. The illustrations look good and the two column thing doesn’t bother me, since I’m used to it from reading other pulp reprints. The new size is going to wreak havoc on my shelves since I was arranging the series by original publication date. But whatever annoyances the size might cause will be easily made up for by the series great new look. Thanks a lot!
I make no claim to be an expert on ancient religions, but I do know that sacrifices were supposed to be, well, sacrifices, giving your god something of value, not a way to cull the weak animals of your herd that are worthless to you anyway. To give less than your best to your god is an insult. I think you are referring to this story. (It always struck me though that the story’s moral, if you will, was NOT to cheat the gods.)
Dear F. Wesley Schneider, I’ve not been paying much attention to the blog for awhile and recently decided to catch up on it, and I came across the entries about your Princes of Darkness—Book of the Damned, Volume 1. First let me say, your Book of the Damned sounds really neat and I’m sure it will be a welcome addition to many people’s personal libraries. What bothered me was this part of the interview:
I can’t believe that you’d say that, Wes. I’ve never before heard someone try to excuse human sacrifices. Even if such practices were not “particularly uncommon for the age” it doesn’t make them any better. They are evil and they are murder.
I am not familiar with what went on at ceremonies to Beelzebub, but Moloch wouldn’t need to be “demonized”, he was pretty demonic on his own. I’m not meaning to attack you or your views, I’m just stating my own. ---Theris Nordo Ichka P.S. I just hope that your only reason for saying this was to start the messageboards moving.
Thanks all you who told me I still had time, I think I downloaded a couple before the deadline. But when I try to open them, a message pops up saying “Please insert the last disk of the Multi-Volume set and click OK to continue.” What’s it talking about? Does this mean the download was unsuccessful?
Some thoughts of mine on this film’s title: I think just plain and simple ‘Star Trek’ is a good name in that it doesn’t sound like a sequel. And you don’t feel that to understand it you have to know a lot about the star trek franchise, it is Star Trek. An unfortunate aspect of the title is that the original series is also called ‘Star Trek’, and this could be confusing, especially if you’re trying to look up one or the other. What do you think of the title they chose for this film?
Thanks to Ubermench, I’ve bought a copy of this book. I haven’t read it yet but it’s on my ‘to read’ pile. I’ll be posting what I think of it once I’ve finished it. What I can say without reading it though is that the binding alone (I got the special edition) is almost worth the price. It’s a beautifully crafted book. Cheers,
There are some active discussions going on elsewhere about this upcoming Star Trek prequel. I wondered what my fellow paizo-messageboarders had to say about it. Link: Star Trek (at IMDb) Have any thoughts? Concerns? Observations?
I think you’re talking more about a matter of personal taste than the quality of the writing. I know robot and mutant stories don’t appeal to everyone. Just my two cents.
I’ve never read any Piers Anthony, is there any connection between Steppe and Sos the Rope? Thanks! A question for whoever is in the know:
If you don’t approve of this product, by all means DON’T BUY IT! But don’t boycott paizo to stop them selling it, buy the products you do approve of, and recommend them to your friends. Paizo, like all companies, is in business to make money and they’ll give us more of whatever’s selling best.
I haven’t read it yet. Just wanted to make sure you knew, it’s the sequel to The Swordsman of Mars, so you might want to look into that first.
Thank you very much! I’ve just put ‘The Pagan King’ in my cart and ‘The Land of Forgotten Men’ on my shelf.
A question; since in general religious people are more friendly, healthy, and imaginative, wouldn’t it make sense for the hypothetical world ruler/rulers to make atheism illegal? I didn’t say I was for that, in fact that part about making atheism illegal was intended to get this discussion, which I find fascinating, moving again (and it worked admirably). I do not approve of anyone, religious or otherwise, forcing their views on other people. Just want to make that clear.
I didn’t say all atheists were less healthy, etc., than religious people, I just said “In general”, and science stands behind me on at least two counts: As to religious people being more imaginative and achieving more in the world, I could list hundreds of names, but Zombieneighbors would probably disqualify most of them as being from a time with “no real alternative to theism”. As to religious people being friendlier, well, that’s from personal experience, and I see now I had no right to say that, as I have not personally met the majority of atheists. But my other points I stick to like glue. P.S. Kruelaid, please don’t think of me as an example of a typical religious person, I’m not.
I currently have some free time, so I can join in this discussion better. A question; since in general religious people are more friendly, healthy, and imaginative, wouldn’t it make sense for the hypothetical world ruler/rulers to make atheism illegal? Most atheists seem to be too busy trying to bash religion to ever amount to anything, whereas religious folk seem to be making the big achievements in this world (show me an atheist who wrote better plays than Shakespeare, built buildings more beautiful than the cathedrals, etc,). How could anyone think an atheistic world would be a better world? In reality, the concept discussed in this thread would make a world of drones, a world without beauty.
On a side note, anybody else think it's interesting that the two authors in our line who have received the most praise so far (and rightfully so) are female? Is there a correlation there, or is it coincidental? It’s hard to say, I must point out though that Planet Stories has currently published works by the two most famous female pulp authors and, with the exception of Almuric, none of the works of the most famous male authors. When Burroughs, Howard, Lovecraft, Leiber, Vance, (etc., etc.,) grace this line, we can better compare. Don’t get me wrong, I think these women were brilliant writers, and to give the men a chance they’ll need better representation than Gygax for instance (the male author this line has primarily published). P.S. On all that Han Solo business discussed earlier, I think I heard that Northwest Smith was an inspiration. P.P.S. By the way, thanks for adding photographs to the author bios.
I’ve never heard of this before but it might be something to look into: Flash Gordon Strange Adventure Magazine (My first link, hope it works) That or perhaps some of the novels mentioned right after it might be nice to include in the Planet Stories line. After all, Flash Gordon is probably the most famous sci-fi character of the early twentieth century.
Your apologetics(aka lousy attempt to avoid logic) are weak. God has many names, and one of them is 'Bastard' This was an interesting debate for a while, but now it seems to have degenerated to insults and name-calling. If everyone can’t be civil I see no reason for this discussion to continue. Zombieneighbours, you wrote near the beginning “I hope it can remain civil enough that it won't need to be locked”. I hope so too.
How can you say you have an ‘open mind’ when you’re not even willing to consider God as an alternative to the big bang theory and evolution? Although my views are quite different than yours, I admire your zeal and how you stand by what you believe. But zeal on its own isn’t enough; it must be directed in appropriate ways.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
