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* ScrabbleBabble: The short story "Scrabble With God" uses this trope with a twist. "It isn't that He cheats, exactly." But any word He plays is a real word -- even if it wasn't a minute ago. And He's not above ''un''creating things in order to be able to challenge His opponents' words, either...
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* ScrabbleBabble: The short story "Scrabble "''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' With God" uses this trope with a twist. "It isn't that He cheats, exactly." But any word He plays is a real word -- even if it wasn't a minute ago. And He's not above ''un''creating things in order to be able to challenge His opponents' words, either...
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[[https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/john-ford-science-fiction-fantasy-books.html Mike Ford vanished into obscurity]] after his tragic and untimely death in 2006. (He had had serious health problems his entire life.) After hassles with his family and legal affairs, his works are finally about to be reprinted in their entirety, along with many that have never seen the light of day.
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[[https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/john-ford-science-fiction-fantasy-books.html Mike Ford vanished into obscurity]] after his tragic and untimely death in 2006. (He had had serious health problems He left no will, his entire life.) After hassles agent disappeared, and almost all his books fell out of print. Beginning in 2019, however, new agreements with his family brought his work back to life: Both ''The Dragon Waiting'' and legal affairs, ''The Scholars of Night'' came back to print, and his works are finally about to be reprinted final unpublished novel ''Aspects'' is being published in their entirety, along with many that have never seen the light of day.
April 2022.
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Ford's other work in the realm of RPG design includes several sourcebooks for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'', and the classic ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' supplement, ''The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues''.
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Ford's other work in the realm of RPG design includes several sourcebooks for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'', and the classic ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' supplement, ''The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues''.
Blues'', and two ''TabletopGame/CarWars'' related short stories (with game stats) "Street Legal" and "Alkahest" for Creator/SteveJacksonGames's in-house gaming magazines ''The Space Gamer'' and ''Autoduel Quarterly'' respectively.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: KingArthur and co. in "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station"
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* PublicDomainCharacter: KingArthur Myth/KingArthur and co. in "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station"
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->''"Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight."''
->''"Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight."''
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Probably his widely-known work is in a sense his least original -- two novels in the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse, but even here he broke new ground: ''Literature/TheFinalReflection'' is a historical novel of the early years of Federation-Klingon interaction, with a Klingon as its hero, and ''Literature/HowMuchForJustThePlanet'' is a musical comedy. He also co-wrote the Klingons sourcebook for [[{{Creator/FASA}} FASA's]] ''Star Trek'' TabletopRoleplayingGame, which was for a time the most complete and in-depth source on Klingon language and culture available. Much of it has been {{Jossed}} since the screen canon got serious about exploring Klingon culture, but there are still fans who think Ford's version was better, and not just in the sense that there will always be fans who think the old version was better. Even so, many feel that Ford's explorations directly influenced the evolution of the canon Klingons into their modern, honor-driven pseudo-Samurai form.
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Probably his widely-known work is in a sense his least original -- two novels in the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse, but even here he broke new ground: ''Literature/TheFinalReflection'' is a historical novel of the early years of Federation-Klingon interaction, with a Klingon as its hero, and ''Literature/HowMuchForJustThePlanet'' is a musical comedy. He also co-wrote the Klingons sourcebook for [[{{Creator/FASA}} FASA's]] ''Star Trek'' TabletopRoleplayingGame, which was for a time the most complete and in-depth source on Klingon language and culture available. Much of it has been {{Jossed}} OutdatedByCanon since the screen canon got serious about exploring Klingon culture, but there are still fans who think Ford's version was better, and not just in the sense that there will always be fans who think the old version was better. Even so, many feel that Ford's explorations directly influenced the evolution of the canon Klingons into their modern, honor-driven pseudo-Samurai form.
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Notable poems include the sonnet "[[http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html#29472 Against Entropy]]" ("Regret, by definition, comes too late; / Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate."), the multi-award-winning narrative poem "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station", and the September 11 tribute "[[http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html 110 Stories]]".
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Notable poems include the sonnet "[[http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html#29472 Against Entropy]]" ("Regret, by definition, comes too late; / Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate."), the multi-award-winning narrative poem "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station", and the September 11 tribute "[[http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html 110 Stories]]".
Stories]]". "Against Entropy" is cited as an example of Ford's extemporaneous brilliance: it was written and published ''less than eight hours'' after a prompt by one of Ford's editors.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Fugue State," one of Ford's most challenging novellas, is a psychological horror piece featuring mind-wiped characters with uncertain identities. The story follows the structure of a musical fugue.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Unfortunately Ford's surviving family were in opposition to his writing career, and because he failed to set up a legal foundation for his works before he died, they now hold veto power over any attempt to republish his works (except the two Star Trek books, which Paramount has control of). The only means to find them now is in used bookstores.
