Re: [HOE] favorite fiction & miniatures (Quite Long)

[Dirk <darklord@dark-sky.net>]

Have you got ISBN's for some of those books you mention?

--Dirk

Fletcher Stuart wrote:

> In the past I've used a smattering of the Warzone minitures (Sci-Fi squad
> combat game) but the company which makes them croaked a little while back. A
> small selection of the Games Workshop minis for their Warhammer 40K range
> are useful, the gang member models from the Necromunda game make excellent
> waster and their Titan models from the Epic scale range make excellent
> Automatons (as does one of the Models from the Miniature Heroes range). Some
> of the Vor range look useful but I haven't really studied them yet, I'm sure
> there are still more out there but I've not the money or time to worry too
> much about mini's.
>
> With regards to films I really feel that Mad Max 1 & 2(or The Road Warrior
> as it was known on your side of the pond) give a good feeling of what the
> road gang side of things would be like and as someone said yesterday
> Delicatessen and City of Lost Children have strong ideas to draw from.
> Waterworld though far too long also has nice ideas and is actually quite
> enjoyable. Like Dirk said Escape from New York is good (Though I've
> personally always associated Denver and it's environs with the Flashforward
> from Terminator where the resistance is fighting the robots, the Denver
> sourcebook kind of deflated that concept but I like it and may make my
> version of the place a bit more of a warzone). The book the Postman by David
> Brin is enjoyable enough and I've always been surprised by how much mileage
> I've gotten from the Riverworld series by Phillip Jose Farmer, the setting
> isn't relevant, it's more to do with the sort of communities that spring up
> throughout the story in the wake of very chaotic and troublesome times and
> I've modelled more than one survivor settlement on groups and locations in
> these books (I can't recommend the first three books in this series enough,
> the fourth meanders a little and loses its momentum a little and the fifth
> is almost sad and wasn't really necessary). That's all that springs to mind
> right now but I'll post anything else that I come up with over the afternoon
> (I know it's morning over there just humour me).
>
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