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Yes, that would be FASA. The game, however, was BattleTech; I wrote the first three novels of that series. The other three were two Doctor Who plot-your-own books, and a novel set in FASA's TOG universe. Never did anything in Shadowrun.

I'm a professional writer--sixty-something novels published, mostly science fiction or military technothrillers, and one non-fiction on magic and science on the way. (I just finished the ms. two days ago. Hurrah!) I always wanted to be a writer--specifically of science fiction, and did the...

Good answer, Clive Staples. Fern, you and I are on very different life paths, and I hesitate to give any specific advice for fear of giving offense. I used to be Christian; now I'm Wiccan. There. If THAT hasn't scared you off, let me say that my world view is such that I try to be in tune...

Gazundheit, Brian.

I'm with you, Brian, on that bacteria twist. "Midichlorians," he called them, which sounds awfully close to "mitochondria!" One of the great things, to my mind, about the first Star Wars movie was the apparent idea that the Force was everywhere, and anyone--with training and will and...

Oops. Sorry. I was typing away and the message suddenly posted itself. Not sure what happened. Singers must have flipped But, ahem, to continue. My friend went to a nearby convenience store to buy a ticket. The ticket machine was broken. She went to another store a few miles away. They were...

Wonderful point, Brian. I was using that very point in the current book--there's some major synchronicity going down here. But if this magic stuff works, why aren't more witches hitting the lottery? The story I just related in the final chapter is true. I had a dear freind who was also a...

Hi, Fern! Welcome to the Comparative Religion board! Your questions are only among the deepest and most important of any we can ask ourselves. As such, I'd shy away from easy or superficial answers and from religious dogma. One problem within this western culture of ours appears to be a...

Sheesh, Bruce! If YOU'RE old, where does that leave ME!!?? [Reaches for his walker.] Bill

For me, it is the opportunity to establish dialogue between members of different faiths within a safe, loving, diverse and accepting community. What Brian has established here with this forum is an amazing and a precious thing--free and open communication between believers of different faiths in...

Mm. I agree with the social definition--knowing the difference between right and wrong, though what constitutes right and wrong will clearly be different in different cultures. I respectfully disagree that the personal definition is not alterable. To use myself as example, once again. When I...

Wonderful discussion topic. For myself, I use the word "morality" to embrace behavior--generally within a cultural venue--that is enforced within a religious context. I use the word "ethics" to cover behaviors within a social venue that are enforced solely within a personal and nonreligious...

Was that the e about new updates to the C-R board, and about moderator teams? Yes, Brian, I got it. Sorry not to respond. It's been worse than usual in the hecticity department of late. --Bill

With respect, Nogodnomasters, the story of Onan appears to be a moral lesson drawn from Jewish law, as described in Deuteronomy 25: 5 - 10, which required the brother to "raise up his brother's house" in the event of the man's death. There is a very large difference between obeying the law and...

No question necessary! A fascinating topic for further discussion! I appreciate the insight into Jewish mysticism, Vajradhara. Thank you. While I don't personally subscribe to the Adamic mythology, I find some points, those bearing on being part of one great soul, identical to my own beliefs...

I think much depends on the belief of the practitioner. Ritual can have tremendous power to it quite independent of the understanding of the practitioners. I'm thinking here of the Catholic Mass in Latin, and of Wiccans who perform "cookbook spells" without full understanding of what they're...

Yes, like so much else in quantum theory, everything depends on how you look at it--particle or wave? Field or particle exchange? Micro or macro? The answer seems to generally be "Yes." Yes, synchronicity strikes again. I've read Penrose. I saw what he was driving at, I think, but felt his...

Sure, Brian. The information came from “The Field” by Lynne McTaggart, Harper Collins, New York, NY. 2002. pp. 154 – 156; and from “Physics of the Soul,” by Amit Goswami, Hampton Roads Publishing, Charlottesville, VA. 2001. pp. 35 – 40. The second experiment is described in Goswami’s book in...

In my experience, Thomas, plenty of Wiccan and pagan traditions do embrace hierarchies--most commonly as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree levels of initiation. As Rev. LKKP put it so well, though, initiation is a rite of passage. It has nothing to do with perfection (or wholeness or fullness of being or...

Speaking here as a Wiccan writing a book on quantum physics. . . . We've long assumed a correlation between the verifiable and measureable magnetic field generated by the human body and/or the generation of brain waves, and psychic phenomenon such as telepathy, precognition, and miraculous...