Space Game General All-Platform Thready Discussy Thing :)

Yes, very nice and comprehensive manual, I noticed. I read the Silverberg story in the manual and it turned out to be a bit of a disappointment though in all fairness it was commissioned to appeal to a much broader audience than the typical niche of science fiction literature. Still, it was unmistakable Robert Silverberg with flashes of his fine sardonic wit, especially the description of the perpetually poor crew falling into a planet’s gravity well and being so physically torn up by it that they had to use all their bank credits & savings to buy medical replacement limbs and body parts lol I wish Silverberg had gone into more detail about the vast ancient alien structure (clearly influenced by Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time) near the end of the story that contained the artifacts.