Book of the Week: Conquistador.

Ah, Conquistador. Picked it up to look up something about farming, reread the whole thing. Alternate history, in which an officer (and Virginian fighting-man) discovers in 1946 a stable dimensional portal to a North America undiscovered by Europeans. It’s a great book, visibly showing the influences of Silver Age science fiction (particularly H. Beam Piper), but it’s also telling that S.M. Stirling needed to quote Niven’s Law* in the foreword. I imagine some of the hate mail was epic.

#commissionearned

*Well, one of Niven’s Laws:

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author.

The term is ‘idiot.’

The recent tariff news should *not* affect the Fermi Resolution Worldbook.


I have been keeping track of this, and so has DriveThruRPG. They recently issued an open letter on this subject. Here is the relevant part, at least with regard to this project:

Print on Demand Books + Cards
We strive to work with Lightning Source, our print-on-demand book partner, to keep prices affordable. While we did recently implement a price increase, our print books remain competitively priced and because printing takes place in the US, UK, and Australia, cost increases due to tariffs can be avoided. The price increases to our print-on-demand books are not tied to these tariffs.

I did pick fulfilment via DriveThruRPG specifically because they could handle in-country fulfilment outside the United States, so there’s that. There’s a broad consensus that tariffs won’t be hitting digital products, so I’m not worrying about that until I’m told I have to. As for the physical novel add-ons: they’re limited to American backers anyway because of postage issues. Besides, I’ve already ordered the books.

Bottom line is: the tariffs are not currently a problem that will affect this project. I will let you know if that changes.

Moe Lane

PS: The preorder store is still open, so grab those novels now!

Possibility for the *next* Patreon campaign world.

The Cunning Land on Patreon still has a couple of parts left to do, but it’s never too early to think about it. Here’s what I’m contemplating next. Note that the notes are rough. Also note that it’s obviously Tolkien-inspired, which I should moderate a good bit. And, yeah, it needs a name.

Continue reading Possibility for the *next* Patreon campaign world.