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Sundog: Frozen Legacy (excerpts)

Excerpts from Sundog: Frozen Legacy (A Frasgird Novel), by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming) Interlude: In which some things are explained to the reader Once humanity started looking – really looking – at the stars and realized that they could (and did) hold vast numbers of worlds, too, the question came: where is everyone? If humanity […]

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Frasgird: The Game (start here)

Events culminate in a process often referred to as frašgird, the final transfiguration of the cosmos, when the forces of evil (and hence dualism) will be eliminated. — Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (Sarah Iles Johnston, 2004, Harvard College) Several hundred years ago, forewarned of pending disaster, a fragment of humanity scattered from […]

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I almost forgot about AI characters

By on June 27, 2015 in Backstory, Characters, Main, Modeling with No Comments

In my (still-being-written) Sundog novel, the ship itself is sentient. As the novel explains here: Interestingly, the same technology that gave humanity hyperdrive also made artificial intelligence – always close, always elusive – actually possible. It turned out that intelligence of any form was a sub-dimensional quantum effect as well. But – singularity proponents notwithstanding – […]

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More historical background

By on April 24, 2015 in Backstory, History, Settings with No Comments

[Based on an e-mail I sent to BruceH on 4/22/15] I’ve actually been laying out the background for the Sundog novel (and by extension Frasgird) for several years. The multiverse/jitter cycle is an essential aspect of reality; in the novels, it helps account for the matter/anti-matter imbalance, for the non-uniform structure (supergroups of galaxies, etc.) […]

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What Frasgird is not

By on April 17, 2015 in Backstory, Game Design, Main with 1 Comment

I’ve covered some of this here, but I think it’s important to set boundries — at least for now — around the game design, and so let me state what Frasgird is not, at least at present and in my own opinion. I’ll likely come back and edit/add to this post from time to time. […]

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