I do wonder what Doug would do if someone handed him a deck of cards, told him they were a "syllogismobile", and let you travel between universes, without any need for high tech or magic...
Just got out my copy of "The Enchanter Completed" (Sphere Books, 1980), which has got a bit on the history of the stories, and L. Sprague De Camp. He sounds pretty impressive, and would have been 93 if he died in 2000. From the sounds of it he was also a wargamer! Care to bet he would have been a roleplayer? [grin]
The "Fallible Fiend" was still one of the best fantasy books I read for a very long time, and his collections of shorts were pretty good, though I found his (SF) novels rather ho hum.
If you want a _really_ fun cross over, Harold Shea (or maybe his son???), in Heinlein's "Number of the Beast" transfictional multiverse could be fun! [grin] After all, someone should rescue "Friday" from the second half of that novel!
Just a few thoughts... [grin] (Hope I am not being too obscure...)
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Just got out my copy of "The Enchanter Completed" (Sphere Books, 1980), which has got a bit on the history of the stories, and L. Sprague De Camp. He sounds pretty impressive, and would have been 93 if he died in 2000. From the sounds of it he was also a wargamer! Care to bet he would have been a roleplayer? [grin]
The "Fallible Fiend" was still one of the best fantasy books I read for a very long time, and his collections of shorts were pretty good, though I found his (SF) novels rather ho hum.
If you want a _really_ fun cross over, Harold Shea (or maybe his son???), in Heinlein's "Number of the Beast" transfictional multiverse could be fun! [grin] After all, someone should rescue "Friday" from the second half of that novel!
Just a few thoughts... [grin] (Hope I am not being too obscure...)
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind