Quote:I hate to be a spoilsport, but how much of Fenspace will actually exist in this after trimming the obvious copyrighted sources?Quite a bit, I hope. Especially since we don't have to trim the public-domain stuff, so Helium gets to show up almost intact. (The Lensmen might get to play, too. SJGames does or did have a licence for that series, after all.)
But, yes, this will be a case of "based on an original story". I'll aim at Adaptation Distillation, not Adaptation Decay or Adaptation Expansion.
Quote:On a more technical note, how much leeway would the people here think we'd get if when describing Gernsback-2 something like the following was mentioned:I think that should be good enough, as long as we don't actually name any of the characters.
"Through accident, design, or both, several in Fenspace have used Handwavium to acquire certain physical resemblances to various fictional characters. Any resemblances to personality that follow on may be construed as them acting the part (or it may not, Handwavium being as unpredictable as it is). This is especially true of the various inducted sapients in Fenspace."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012