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All good points. But then, the Mayans would have a land border with Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, and there'd be plenty of opportunity for Arms smuggling. Particularly by the Mexicans and British who might have their own motivations for undermining American encroachment. The Central Americans...

A Yucatan conquest would be a 19th century Vietnam. A massive drain on America's resources, particularly in an era when the US wouldn't want to afford it. It would be an endless political controversy, and likely a flash point between North and South. I don't think it would leave much...

Marston's book is well worth reading, and the sexual indiscretions from only a small part and are handled quite even handedly. To try and sum it up - JNT and his partner, Gary Downie, were a well established, informally married, gay couple. Gary Downie held a position of production manager, a...

One and the same. I was a huge fan of his work back in the day. He did a novel with Karl Edward Wagner, Killer, that I still cherish to this day. And he did terrific stories. Then one day, I read another collaboration with one of these military SF writers about Byzantine General, Belisarius...

I'm doing a reading, probably for an unpublished novel I'm pitching called 'The Luck.' And finally 'Laws of Fairyland' "Every society, real and imaginary, has at its basis a legal system, a method of evaluating right versus wrong. What influences have modern legal systems had on fantasy...

Nope. I'm a fairly prolific writer with a lot of irons in the fire. Listen, while you're waiting, you could read some of my other stuff. I got novels, ebooks, tons of stuff.

It's just taking a rest, I promise.

Hello again. Sorry everyone. I know posting here gets your hopes up. I'm sorry to say, it's not an update. For what it's worth, I really do plan on coming back to this thread, and to Green Antarctica. I have ideas for both, and it would be very satisfying to re-engage. But having said...

Credit where credit is due. I've enjoyed your other Who timelines, and I've noted you keep getting better and better. I should have offered up encouragement and compliments on earlier threads. You're doing terrific. EDIT: Don't let it go to your head, and make you stop writing. Write more...

I am quite liking this. It's a new and interesting take.

Wasn't the acid scene 'Vengeance on Varos'

Religious reasons generally don't cut it. Leather and armour maybe. But then the question is, that's going to be some heavy expensive leather. Can you get equivalent or moderate quality leather from other animals much cheaper and faster and in greater volume? Fats from other animals...

Everyone goes for luxury items, but except for silk worms, that's mostly just crap. And let's be honest, silkworm domestication wasn't a major investment. Those little buggers are cheap to feed, low maintenance, and most of the labour investment is processing. Silk/Silkworms are a very...

So, annexing to prevent other people from claiming the coal?

There's absolutely no economic utility to Alligators or Crocodiles as a food animal. Their environmental demands are high, which limits the ability to mass produce them. And against that, the meat is going to be extremely expensive in terms of investment - they're meat eaters, so you will...

The UK could have annexed it at any time. It had coal. Maybe that....

I think you're going to need more words.

Something like a protos Astrakhan might be the best bet. I'm honestly dubious the the shores and landscapes along the north basin are productive enough to support a large city or federation of mid sized cities and towns. The north basin is relatively shallow and I just don't think you could...

Really seems uphill to me.