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Chris Farnell@thebrainofchris.bsky.social |
In the foreword to the map of Ankh Morpork, the writer tells a story about Pratchett saying the first question to ask when designing a fantasy city is "How does the clean water get in and sewage come out?" What I have since realised is this also applies to designing aliens and fantasy creatures.
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Leftback
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In the Ankh, he only answered the second question.
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Dyqik
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It's probably a sensible thing to base your party manifesto around, and to make sure is done right under your government as well...
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Arthur
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Brian Aldis' The Dark Light Years can be regarded as counterpoint.
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Macula
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One of the first jokes I learned was about this very thing, but it has a very visual element, and is about threatening to give an alien a smacked bum.
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Richard K
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Mind you for a lot of human history the answer to the latter in real cities was either "people with shovels and barrows" or "into the drinking water", so...
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