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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Voter's Guide to the 2012 Wine Propositions
Though it's rarely mentioned, and there doesn't seem to be much coverage in the media, we have an election coming up the first Tuesday in November. As a well-informed voter, I know there is a black guy and a white guy running for an important office against each other. But that's not the part of the election that matters. Hell, it's like boxing, always bet the black guy over the white guy, it's mostly fixed anyway. I think I also heard that one of them is a Mormon. Pretty sure it's the white guy. Must be, black Mormons are like most sommeliers—they have the title, but they're mostly just there to clean up and lock the doors. So just ignore that race, and focus on what really matters in the upcoming election. Propositions.
At least here in California, there are a lot of important propositions that will decide the future of wine. I know that thousands of people depend on the HoseMaster of Wine™ for guidance in all things pertaining to the industry, so I'm providing my recommendations for how every wine lover should vote in this upcoming election. If you're still confused after reading my list, just mail me your ballot. I'll shred it faster than a Florida Republican.
VOTE YES on Proposition 97
Prop 97 would create a "luxury tax" on overpriced wines that would be re-distributed among wineries charging reasonable prices for their wines. For example, a Napa Valley Cabernet selling for $195 would be required to pay a 20% luxury tax of $39 on each bottle sold. $195 is a stupid price for a bottle of wine considering the same money could feed a family of six for a week, or be better spent gambling on cock fights. A Russian River Pinot Noir selling for $150 would also be required to pay a $30 luxury tax. And so on. The accumulated taxes would be divided among struggling wineries charging fair prices for their wines as an incentive to keep wine prices down. The proposition also creates a fund to treat the mental health of those who purchased the overpriced wines. An independent panel of experts will be assembled to decide where the "overpriced" ceiling is for each category of wine. So, as an example of fairness, at $15, any bottle of California Sangiovese would qualify as overpriced. And every damned Dessert Wine at any price.
VOTE NO on Proposition 99
Proposition 99 would allow wineries to name their proprietary wines after diseases. This is a terrible idea, of course, but one that the big corporate wineries are eager to capitalize on. K-J has already trademarked "Bulimia—The Wine That Tastes Just As Good the Second Time." We don't need that. There was a test brand from the Sierra Foothills called "Petite Psoriasis" that had a peel-off label. Seems rather tacky. And do we really need "Syphillis" in a screw top? You can see the marketing appeal for the wineries though. "Give your significant other a case of Sterling 'Gonorrhea.'" That would move the sales needle, if not the hypodermic. But the next thing you know other countries will follow suit and we'll suffer the nightmare that would be Soave "Ebola." For the love of God, vote No on 99.
VOTE YES on Proposition A
Proposition A would ban the use of French in all marketing materials. French is the source for all the wine vocabulary that is stupid, illogical, and inexplicable. Use of the word "terroir" would be punishable by a hefty fine, as well as mandatory attendance at a Jim Clendenen winemaker dinner (though the Supreme Court may rule that is cruel and unusual punishment). "Cru" would also be banned, except for rapper winemakers. A Pinot Noir producer who used the word "Burgundian" would be beaten senseless and forced to wear Jean-Charles Boisset's hand-me-downs to leather bars. It's about time these stupid, misleading French words were made illegal. "Methode Champenoise" always sounds like a fancy brand of douche to me anyway, so let's just get rid of it. I'd like to see the law go even further and ban terms that are related to French wines, even ones in English. Crap like "First Growth." Sounds like the results of your colonoscopy anyway. But, really, if we can just ban "terroir" we've made the wine world a much better place. I've never known a quality human to use it, only marketing people. You must vote Yes on Prop A.
VOTE YES on Proposition 18
Prop 18 would force wine competitions to award Gold Medals that are actually made of 24K gold. Opponents say that this will raise entry fees for wineries that want to enter competitions, while advocates argue that it will stop the obscene proliferation of Gold Medals. Both are desirable results. Silver medals will remain worthless, and Bronze medals will be eliminated in favor of valuable parting gifts. "Our 2009 Zinfandel was awarded American Tourister luggage!" Fewer entries, a result of necessarily higher entry fees, will mean the mostly senior citizen wine judges will actually be able to stay awake. Meanwhile, competition organizers will put pressure on the old farts to give fewer valuable medals, resulting in Gold Medal wines that are actually worth buying. Imagine that.
VOTE YES on Proposition L
Proposition L seeks to make it illegal for sommeliers (a word that would be banned if Prop A passes—let's just call them what they really are, Cork Presenters) to make and sell their own wine. The marketplace is flooded with wine made by real celebrities, it doesn't need wine made by fake ones. Sommeliers should be limited to doing what it is they do best—making winemakers squirm with their idiotic opinions. This is valuable work, and shouldn't be undervalued. But sommeliers making their own wine is like gardeners making their own manure—fine in the privacy of their own home, but I don't want to have to smell it. Be brave and stand up for your convictions. Don't be a No L Coward.
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You left out Prop 15.9 ABV - October 25, 2012 at 8:58 AM
- Daniel said...
terroir, it's such a great concept that doesn't translate, but everytime you say you sound like a pompous douche bag.
hey, i got terroir on my shoes. that crap won't wash off.
can we also ban the word 'stelvin'? i know that's the brand, but was that the best name they could come up with? please tell me it was named after two guys called steve and melvin.
cheers - October 25, 2012 at 9:07 AM
I've had the Sierra Foothills "Petite Psoriasis". Heavy on the tar.
What would double gold medals be made of ?
- October 25, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Prop 18...I am sure I read this in the ballot John Tuteur sent out. Old fart judges (who must be older than the winery - mostly good in California but eliminates European wineries which will inspire the EU to spend its last cash on alcohol) will receive gold bars...which is where they spend most of their time in leather.
The equal pay for equal wine initiative (I forgot the #), means a bonus to companies sourcing grapes from Fresno and Madera. Read the ballot and check the SuperCalifragilisticexpialidocious PAC donations.
I heard Danny Brager will present the election results in the Nielsen/WIne Market Council slide show in January. Eliminates hanging chards.
Vote now. Who knows if a World Series hangover will keep you from the polls. - October 25, 2012 at 10:21 AM
The reasoning behind Proposition A is all wrong. What's wrong with French terms? Nothing.
It is the French wine that is the problem. You can't find any California wine in France so why should we allow stinking French wine in California? It is all thin gruel and smells like merde anyway. - October 25, 2012 at 10:45 AM
- Xenophobic Daddy said...
Oops,the above got away from me. Must be the fumes from the Pouilly Fume.
Should have been signed. - October 25, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Anonymous...you can find Wente at any Intermarché.
- October 25, 2012 at 10:54 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
It's actually Prop 16.5 ABV, which is confusing to voters. But vote No. It's about raisin taxes.
Terroir is a concept like Beauty. Everyone has a different opinion about what it is, and they all sound stupid. Like so much fake marketing crap in the wine business, it's French in origin.
Steve and Melvin! Perfect.
48K Gold, obviously.
"Hanging chards" is very nice. Solid Gold star for you.
Hey, I'm one of those old fart judges! And I don't where leather to bars. Those are Naugahyde pants. It's like they have built-in Whoopee cushions!
Xeno, Warrior Daddy,
You may be on to something here. Ban all immigrant wines from Caifornia! Might have to get that initiative on the next ballot. Should be easy with the next President being either Mormon or Kenyan.
Wente isn't California wine, it's from Livermore. - October 25, 2012 at 11:17 AM
- Thomas said...
This is one party I cannot join, with me living in the great state of New York, where the State Fair sells Mondavi wine and we do not allow ballot initiatives, for fear that the people might actually have something to say about the way things go.
I envy Left Coasties for their ability to have a say in the most important matters facing the wine industry, but I wonder if anyone has considered the volume of voter fraud going on in California. I have it on good authority that people who can't even spell "proposition" have been allowed to pick one to vote for or against. It's a true tragedy that will one day take down the whole wine industry--well, maybe just the one in Livermore. - October 25, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Liver-more...global wine country.
Thomas, most Californians I know are from NY. You can probably vote absentee.
Thanks for gold star, Ron. Another star to you, too. - October 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- Thomas said...
That'll work. I can't proparly spell propasition, or even Livamor.
Do I need an i.d. card to get a ballot? - October 25, 2012 at 12:05 PM
- Wines for the People said...
Yes on 97! Yes on A! Yes on 18!
But especially Yes on 97!
What will I do with my sudden windfall if it passes? - October 25, 2012 at 3:30 PM
- Marcia Macomber said...
Favorite line among hundreds: "Don't be a No L Coward!"
I didn't know wines could proposition one another... Learn something new every day. - October 25, 2012 at 3:50 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Wines for Peeps,
I just kept thinking about how Major League Baseball has a revenue sharing deal and how that could work for California wineries. It would either help small wineries, or, at the very least, bring down prices on all the extraordinarily overpriced wines out there.
Maybe with your windfall you could buy yourself a concrete egg. Or several concrete eggs for a concrete omelet.
Sure they can proposition each other, though, to practice safe sex, they need to be in screwcaps. - October 25, 2012 at 4:13 PM
I've always wanted to add additional fees on our distributor invoices such as
"small winery guaranteed profit fee",
"ridiculously expensive waste water treatment recovery fee",
"French Oak Euro currency inflation fee" etc - kind of like the hotels and airlines do now.
FOB would stay the same but we'd actually recover our costs on the product
The over-priced redistribution penalty would save me the trouble - I'm voting YES. - October 25, 2012 at 6:24 PM
- gabe said...
maybe we can take prop L a step further, and say that you can't "make" a wine unless you actually know how to make wine
- October 25, 2012 at 8:57 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I get as much enjoyment out of beautifully made, fairly priced wines as I do from crazy, stupid expensive wines. About time we made the 1% of wineries help pay for the wines people actually enjoy! I'd ask you what winery you own, but if you'd want that known, you would have made it known. Thanks for chiming in.
One step at a time. First we get rid of sommeliers making wine, then we go after all the other amateurs. Is there an incompetent wine writer making wines? That's probably next. - October 25, 2012 at 10:11 PM
- PaulG said...
How about voting for Prop Peller - a ban on flying winemakers.
- October 25, 2012 at 10:17 PM
- PaulG said...
"Is there an incompetent wine writer making wines? That's probably next." Be careful what you ask for!
- October 25, 2012 at 10:18 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Whenever I hear the term "flying winemakers" I think of the monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz."
The wine writer scenario scares me. I imagine Verdicchio in a Tim Fish bottle. Yikes. - October 26, 2012 at 8:28 AM
- Xenophobic Daddy said...
I never buy wine at Intermarche. That would be like buying wine at Safeway or Krogers.
A few years ago, my wife and I went to a fancy Parisian restaurant for our 25h anniversary. Upon learning that we were from California and that I was a writer about wine, the sommelier proudly trotted out the California wine on his list. It had been there for twelve years.
Now, don't get me wrong. I can see no reason to go to France to drink CA wine. But, I also see no reason why restaurants in San Francisco claim that there are no CA wines that go with their Vietnamese or Cal-Med or whatever cuisines. It is reverse snobbery, and thus my tongue-in-cheek Proposition to ban French wines here. - October 26, 2012 at 8:43 AM
- Francly Speaking said...
I strongly support Yes on No!
- October 26, 2012 at 9:17 AM
What kind of bottle would you put Sagrantino made by a wine writer?
- October 26, 2012 at 9:59 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
There is a small addendum to Prop L that is hidden in the misleading language that would ban Gruner Veltliner from Slanted Door restaurant, if that makes you feel better.
Francly John,
Sadly, the No! on Yes people are outspending you. It always pays to run a negative campaign.
Jack Stems,
Oh, probably a one Galloni jug. - October 26, 2012 at 10:17 AM
- Dean Tudor said...
Given all the comments here, there are some really passionate voters...Hope that augers well for Nov 6, which is NOT a national holiday up here in Canada.
I expect a deluge of refugees to Canada on Nov 7 if the all-white guy wins... - October 26, 2012 at 2:25 PM
Take that, Blinky Gray!
Ed - October 27, 2012 at 8:01 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I just cast my ballot by mail, and the Propositions were every bit as dumb as mine listed here.
I have been hearing from a lot of winemakers who love my Prop 98. I think it could fly. Imagine Screaming Eagle's luxury tax alone! It would save a lot of small wineries about to go under.
- October 27, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Nice. Prop 98 = Redistribution of wealth.
- October 27, 2012 at 9:54 AM
- Dean Tudor said...
I thought it was Prop 97
- October 27, 2012 at 4:51 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Damned Prop inflation. 97's aren't what they used to be. Probably be Prop 100 by election day.
- October 27, 2012 at 5:34 PM


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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Retrospective: Metamorphosis Alpha
Over several generations, the descendants of the original passengers forget they're aboard a starship (which still functions, more or less, under the control of automated systems) and new societies arise on its various decks, which are kilometers-long in size and include many areas designed to mimic terrestrial environments for the benefit of the passengers who were supposed to live and work aboard the Warden while traveling for decades to another world. Player characters assume the role of un-mutated humans, humanoid mutants, and mutant animals, as they explore the Warden, ignorant that it's actually a starship. It's a very compelling premise, one that it shares with Robert Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky and Brian Aldiss's Non-Stop (sometimes titled Starship in certain editions). In many ways, it's a much more interesting, if somewhat more limited, premise than that of Gamma World.
My own obsession with the game stemmed from the fact, sometimes after I acquired Gamma World, I also the first Best of Dragon compilation, which included articles about Metamorphosis Alpha in it. These articles were strangely inspirational to me, all the moreso because they were for a game that I'd never heard of, let alone seen, but that clearly bore a lot of resemblance in basic premise and rules to my beloved Gamma World. Thus began my quest to find a copy of the game, a quest that ended in vain. I asked the guys down at my favorite game store about Metamorphosis Alpha, but they told me it was long out of print and my best bet was to go to a convention and win it at an auction. The old grognards who hung out there added that MA "wasn't very good anyway" and that I was better off just using Gamma World and making up the rest.
And so I did. I pulled out my huge graph paper sheets and set to work to mapping out my version of the starship Warden. It was a long and tedious undertaking, filled with lots of missteps and heartache, because I never felt I could get it "right." This vessel was supposed to be 80 kilometers long or so, which meant that even a big map would have to use a very large scale. Moreover, what would a vast generation ship even look like? The only starships I'd ever seen were from movies and TV shows and none of them were generation ships designed to house a huge number of colonists, animals, plants, and machinery for decades of travel across many light years. Eventually, all these worries and concerns got the better of me and I abandoned my maps, something I regret now, even as I fully understand why my younger self admitted defeat.
Over the years, I retained a high degree of interest in Metamorphosis Alpha and kept hoping that, one day, a new edition would be released that'd give me everything I'd hoped for back in the days before I could even take a look at this mythical game. As it turns out, new editions have been published over the years, but each one has been a terrible disappointment to me, utterly lacking in the aura of mystery and possibility that surrounded the original. To be fair, some of that isn't the fault of the new editions -- though some of it is, as nearly all the new editions have been conceptually flawed in significant ways -- as much of the mystique about this game for me is that I could never find a copy.
I've since been able to read it and I'd say that, while it's definitely a very early game in terms of its mechanics and production values, it's nevertheless excellently inspirational. At 32 pages, it contains just enough information to get the referee going but not so much as to prevent him from putting his own stamp on it. I still don't own a copy myself; I keep an eye out for them but they're generally ludicrously expensive and I can't justify spending that kind of money nowadays. In truth, I should probably pick up where my younger self left off and just create my own starship maps and use Mutant Future for the rules. Heck, I have this crazy idea of a supplement for MF called Generation Ship, which would basically be Metamorphosis Alpha with the serial numbers filed off and better production values. Maybe that's something worth considering ...
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- AnonymousJuly 7, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Glad to see some MA love out there, James. You might also mention that Jim Ward often visits the Metamorphosis Alpha forum, which you can find in the "links" section at metamorphosisalpha.net and I have a MA section on my OD&D Disucssion boards. Just trying to spread the word! :-)
ReplyDelete You can still get the PDF, from RPGNow; it even includes the errata from James Ward himself. Only $5.95.
Seems Mr. Ward was pretty smart -- he kept the copyright, so even though TSR/WOTC/Hasbro owns the rest of the TSR products, he still owns Metamorphosis Alpha.
Which works out good for us.It's too bad you hadn't seen Starlost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost>Starlost, a Canadian science fiction T.V. series that aired in 1973. It was about the descendants of the crew and colonists of a colony ship that didn't realize they were on a colony ship. You probably would have had a much easier time envisioning your version of Warden after seeing the show's 13,000 km diameter ship of self-contained biospheres. This show may have been the inspiration for MA, though it wasn't aired widely in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteI remember that "Best of Dragon". It was the first Dragon Magazine I ever picked up. Living where I did in South Dakota, I never had much contact with other gamers. That magazine (and its well remembered Metamorphosis Alpha article), really opened my eyes that there was a larger gaming world out there, and not all of it was D&D. Its just a weird bit of nostalgia for me. In fact, I still have that much-abused copy of Dragon Magazine, takes me back every time I read it.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, it's great the PDFs of the original book are available. It's better than nothing, but I'd still love to own a hardcopy. It's one of my few remaining gaming lust items.
Well then I wish you the best of luck. Those are getting rarer and rarer.
If I find one I'll let you know, though.Starlost played on the local UHF channel in Sacramento when I was young, but it was often preempted, so I only saw a few episodes. I remember thinking at the time it was pretty bad, but this post has roused my curiosity, so I've added to my Netflix queue. And I'm surprised Ward never saw it; I'd always assumed MA was influenced by it and "Orphans of the Sky."
Security word: "bionsug," a bio-machine security 'bot on the Starship Warden.To my knowledge he was not familiar with The Starlost or Orphans of the Sky when he did MA, but they do make grate sources of inspiration.
By the way, I got a Wiki for Mutant Future, I made for fans to throw out their rules and ideas about the game. The best place to start on that page is Gaming Philosophy. The site is a major work in progress, but you might find something useful over there.Even though I still have my copy of MA, I have recently used Mutant Future set on the Warden. After three games the players still don't seem to be aware they are on a starship. I'm pretty proud of that.
I'm pretty sure Orphans of the Sky was mentioned somewhere in the rulebook, so Jim must have been aware of it. I read it around 1978 not long after I got MA, and it is a must read for anyone GM'ing the game.I just reread the whole rulebook in preparation for this entry and there are no mentions of any source material in its 32 pages. If Ward mentions his inspirations for MA anywhere, it's not in the rulebook. He does mention some inspiration in the first edition Gamma World rulebook, but Heinlein's story isn't one of them. Instead, he states that Brian Aldiss, Andre Nortion, Sterling Lanier, and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards were his main influences.
ReplyDeleteI found MA in a used-games bin in a game shop many years ago. Never played it, but it immediately reminded me of my first edition Gamma World boxed set... and when I got it home, I noticed both had the same author. You can see where Ward drew pretty heavily on MA when he did GW.
I have read MA. I have seen Starlost. Aside from both of them taking place on a big starship, they are about as similar as "Star Trek" and "Lexx," that is to say, "not in the least bit."
While I certainly bear Jim Ward no ill will -- he's certainly a more successful writer than I am, and I have very much enjoyed Ward's work -- I have often wondered what kept Robert Heinlein from suing the pants off him.Here's an interesting development that may be of interest to people interested in The Starlost, running a generation ship game, or both. According to the Wikipedia entry, the pilot episode was originally titled "Phoenix without ashes" (See: http://is.gd/djbRX ). But the author, Harlan Ellison, grew upset (Ellison? Upset? Unheard of.) with budget cuts and the dumbing down of the series and eventually left. Ellison published "Phoenix without ashes" as a novel in 1975.
Fast forward to today. Out of curiosity, I looked on Amazon to see if Phoenix was still available and found this: http://is.gd/djc9O . "Phoenix" is coming out as a graphic novel in December. The price is a bit much, if the details at Amazon are right and it's only 21 pages long, but the original teleplay (which differed from what was produced) was an award-winner, so I thought someone here might be interested.I finally sold my original MA a few years ago, and that was one of the few decisions in a mass sale I've regretted. I was glad to be able to buy a legal .pdf, and dug out my old notes and ran a session for my kids last month. If I do it again, I'll take the time to restock the levels, rather than run from my not-too-logical 1977 notes...
It's pretty amazing by modern standards that you could squeeze any sort of reasonable game and background into 32 pages.
Security word: Curgat, obviously some sort of dog mutant aboard the Warden.)Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova both worked on "The Starlost," and both got their fingers burned pretty badly. Ellison talks about this extensively in "The Essential Ellison," for anyone who's interested (One thing Ellison mentions is that the production company immediately sank budget money into the construction of a control room... despite the fact that it would not be needed for many, many episodes, because that's where the quest would end. Oy!)
"The Starlost" revolved around a guy from an Amish community who discovers to his shock that his whole world is just one bubble hanging on an enormous spaceship. He leaves the bubble, meets other people from other cultures, and they team up to get to the Control Room to keep the ship from crashing into a star. The flavor is multicultural, and seventies, with environmental and character driven themes. Or at least it tried to be. It has been called wretched, here, and I will not argue.
"Metamorphosis Alpha," on the other hand, features mutant and nonmutant player characters aboard a malfunctioning starship who may or may not be aware it's a starship at the beginning of the campaign, and who have adventures wandering around the ship and through the other environment modules. The flavor is much more "tribesmen with antlers wielding spears and ray guns."I'm curious about your comment that each edition after MA1e is a "terrible disappointment". I have a copy of every version of MA (admittedly just a pdf of the 1e) and I have a different pov.
MA1e is an interesting game and deserves mention as being the first science-fiction RPG. However, it has a very bleak premise in that no matter what the PCs do, they are ultimately doomed.
I regard MA2e (Metamorphosis Alpha to Omega) as being superior to MA1e. While the game uses the old Amazing Engine system, it provides more information about the ship and gives PCs hope and something to pursue. It also has a very good map for the Warden.
MA3e is probably the worst of the bunch. It is basically a military slugfest against aliens invading the Warden. The 3d6 system used in that incarnation is lacking and it just didn't grab me at all.
Still, I stuck around for MA4e. This version is beautiful. Alright, it is still limited to the "fight the aliens" mindset of MA3e, but there is more than enough sandbox information in the game that lets you use it as a core set of rules for any science fiction adventuring in the MA setting. Indeed, I used MA4e as the background to a GW6e game which involved having the PCs' personalities beamed to a generation ship as troubleshooters in genetically engineered bodies.
MA4e also ties in very nicely to the expanded history for the original GW.
I have heard of MA5e. I await this with some trepidation as it will use D&D4e as its core system. Still, I am trying to overcome my prejudices and may buy it even if it is just to keep the continuity in the collection.
Sometime it would be interesting to read your views on MA.- AnonymousJuly 8, 2010 at 9:06 AM
Yes, Starlost would be an inspiration but so could RAMA (Clarke's novel)...the ideal of a Spaceship encompassing a biosphere was a popular idea of the 1970s since Skylab entered the popular imagination. But, I would even trace it back to Simak's Cities in Flight.
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I always liked the premise of MA but could never like the backstory. A few years later, I would see a wonderful Call of Cthulhu takeoff of MA and have used that as the Gold Standard...in which players (and many of the NPCs) have had their brains removed by the MiGo and implanted into different forms of life including robotic forms on their Generation Ship causing some to explore their new identity, go mad from the experience or just remain dormant till activated.
What I am trying to say related to my earlier post is that MA just feed off the many tropes/memes that were so-common in the 1970s as the environmental movement was waking people up to the notion of Starship Earth - otherwise this planet is sailing through the cosmos only has a thin skin that we are tampering with and may cause us to be exposed to the "Monsters that are out there". Mutants and whatnot were the extension of the degrated human form much as a Wells' morlocks were who could feed off the Eloi. Something relatively recent on the "generation ship" front is Paul Chafe's Genesis. Unlike the others in this genre that look at generation ships hundred or thousands of years into their voyage this novel looks at the circumstances in which a generation ship would be built, design considerations, and the impact to the passengers shortly after launch. While it ends on a low note the promise for forthcoming resolution in a sequel (or sequels) is tantalizing. I call it to your attention...
ReplyDeleteI love The Starlost (bought the whole series recently) but it and MA have practically nothing to do with each other. The warden being a sort of super-massive multi-deck barge, and The Starlost resembling a much larger play on the ship from Silent Running. They can inspire each other a bit, although The Starlost was more about human interaction and not so much about evolution and mutation.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about your comment that each edition after MA1e is a "terrible disappointment".
Well, of the sequels, I only own the Amazing Engine one anymore and find it far less interesting than the original (though the maps are nice). The two Jim Ward-penned ones were awful, both in terms of system and the way they added this whole "alien menace" element that I think weakened the whole premise of the game. I have little expectation that the new 4e-based one will be much better.The original MA was one of the first RPG that I bought and I did like the premise and the rules seemed fine to anyone used to White Box D&D.
I think that I ended up avoiding the later editions because of the much stronger metaplot where the first edition left things pretty loose for the GM to decide on how they wanted things to go.
I ended up reading Non Stop and Orphans of the Sky because of getting MA so it got me to read some decent SF too. Another thing I found semi inspirational for the setting was Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld as that had an artificial universe that could give ideas for different decks in the Warden.I read about MA back in the day, never found a copy until a few years back. I love it, as I do the earliest GW rules. Would love to see a starship design.
FWIW, I have Phoenix Without Ashes, and altho I'm an Ellison fan, I didn't enjoy it too much.
And BTW, James Blish wrote Cities in Flight, not Clifford Simak.I snagged a copy at the CoastCon Sunday auction that goes to charity. I think it was around 1989 or so, and the benefit was for AIDs. Not many people were bidding for it because they might not have known what the history of the game was. My winning bid, if I recall correctly, was only something like $14.


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A composite version from NibruSegment A1-10. 11-18. Its king stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city. He wept bitter tears. Father Enki stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city. He wept bitter tears. For the sake of his harmed city, he wept bitter tears. Its lady, like a flying bird, left her city. The mother of E-maḫ, holy Damgalnuna, left her city. The divine powers of the city of holiest divine powers were overturned. The divine powers of the rites of the greatest divine powers were altered. In Eridug everything was reduced to ruin, was wrought with confusion. 19-26. The evil-bearing storm went out from the city. It swept across the Land -- a storm which possessses neither kindness nor malice, does not distinguish between good and evil. Subir came down like rain. It struck hard. In the city where bright daylight used to shine forth, the day darkened. In Eridug where bright daylight used to shine forth, the day darkened. As if the sun had set below the horizon, it turned into twilight. As if An had cursed the city, alone he destroyed it. As if Enlil had frowned upon it, Eridug, the shrine Abzu, bowed low. 27. 1st kirugu. 28. It cried out bitterly: "O the destruction of the city! The destruction of the house!" 29. Its ĝišgiĝal. 30-37. A second time the storm destroyed the city -- its song was plaintive. …… was trampled (?). …… intensified the lament. It cut the lock from its main gate. The storm dislodged its door. …… It stacked the people up in heaps. …… on its own destroyed it. It turned …… into tears. …… defiled …… 39-47. …… It distorted its appearance. …… It distorted its appearance. It circled its …… wall. It overturned its foundations. Throughout his city, the pure, radiant (?) place, the foundations were filled with dust. It cast down its ziggurat, the shrine which reaches up to heaven, into a heap of debris. The loftiness of its elevated door-ornament, befitting a house, was stripped down (?). It cut down the gate, its Great-Ziggurat-of-Heaven-and-Earth-Covered-with-Terrible-Awesomeness, its shining door, and it broke through its bolt. It ripped out its doorframe. The house was defaced. 48. 2nd kirugu. 49. The destruction of Eridug! Its destruction was grievous. 50. Its ĝišgiĝal. 51-57. At its lion-faced gate, the place where fates are determined, it mutilated the copse (?) forming the ornament of the house ……. Ka-ḫeĝala and Igi-ḫeĝala, the doorkeepers of the house, ……. Prematurely they destroyed it utterly. They completely altered ……. At the gate of the uzga precinct, the animal-fattener …… the great offerings. Its birds and fish were neglected there. Destruction ……. Throughout his house, radiant (?) in silver and lapis lazuli, tears ……. 58-65. The hired man and the governor ……. The festivals …… grandly ……. Holy songs, songs of all kinds ……. The šem drum and ala drum ……. The great divine powers, all the divine powers ……. The place of the gods of heaven and earth ……. The judgment by the king, the holy sceptre at his right side, ……. The en priestess, lumaḫ priest and nindiĝir priestess ……. 66-73. The minister Isimud ……. Strangers to the house …… its side. Eridug, the shrine Abzu, …… silently. The enemy …… cleansed in a magnificent robe. …… a man …… the people ……. Along with the fluids spilled from his guts, his blood spilled forth. The ……, which like the azure sky was embellished forever, …… grasped ……. 74. 3rd kirugu. 75-76. 77. Its ĝišgiĝal. 78-99. …… distressed and anxious …… like a pigeon ……. Segment B1. Father Enki uttered a lament for himself ……. 2. 4th kirugu. 3. Bitterly Father Enki uttered a lament for himself. 4. Its ĝišgiĝal. 5-9. Because of this, Enki, king of the abzu, stayed outside his city as if it were an alien city. It bowed its neck down to the ground. Eridu's lady, holy Damgalnuna, the faithful cow, the compassionate one, clawed at her breast, clawed at her eyes. She uttered a frenzied cry. She held a dagger and a sword in her two hands -- they clashed together. 10-15. She tore out her hair like rushes, uttering a bitter lament: "You, my city whose woman does not dwell there, whose charms do not satisfy her -- where is a lament uttered bitterly for you? Eridug! You, my city whose woman does not dwell there, whose charms do not satisfy her -- where are tears wept for you? I fall like a bull in your lofty …… falls ……. I am ……. My heart …… queen ……." Segment C1-8. 9-20. Aruru, the sister of Enlil, destroyed her city Iri-saĝ-rig. In Keš, the creation place of the Land, the people saw inside its holy sanctuary where daylight had been unknown. She destroyed it but did not abandon it -- at the lunches, in her great dining hall, they call her name. Lord Nanna, Lord Ašimbabbar, destroyed his city Urim. He decimated the Land with famine. He committed a sacrilege against the E-kiš-nu-ĝal. He struck at its heart. He destroyed it but did not abandon it -- at the lunches, in his great dining hall, they call his name. 21-25. Inana, the queen of heaven and earth, destroyed her city Unug. Fleeing from the E-ana, the house of seven corners and seven fires ……, she destroyed it but did not abandon it -- at the lunches, in her great dining hall, they call her name. 26. (Damgalnuna speaks:) "My beloved, who has ever seen such a destruction as that of your city Eridug!" 27. 6th kirugu. 28. "My beloved, for how long was it built? For how long is it destroyed? …… adornment of the Abzu." 29. Its ĝišgiĝal. 30-36. "Lord Enki, who has ever seen such a destruction as that of your city Eridug? Who has ever seen such a misfortune as that of the shrine Abzu, your house?" No one goes up to his offering terrace. At the lunches, in his great dining hall, they do not call his name. Enki, king of the abzu, felt distressed, felt anxious. At the words of his spouse, he himself began to wail. 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