Hey, Stev-o, a question

[madpraxis (OP)]

You ever get Weber cracked out on Aurora? I was just pondering that after getting bored and borrowing like a dozen of his books from the local branch of the library to re-read last week to kill time while waiting for the giddy joy that is UPDATE.
I can just imagine him brain vomiting out a whole new series of books after a few Aurora facedesks, not that his current mental state apparently needs any assistance
Though, it seems that the trend in the writing world is writer+computer=dead computer, so I'm not sure this is a good line of thought...

[sloanjh]

Actually, Weber's been using Dragon to write for many years now - he screwed up his wrist a while back....

As far as I know he hasn't Draked any of them....

John

[Marski]

Who's Weber?

[madpraxis (OP)]

Ha, nice catch there sloan, if I wasn't such a slacker arse lately you would totally get a cookie
And, that would be David Weber : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber
The man who's space battles still indelibly bear the mark of starfire/starfleet battles...

And Dragon...I don't know, always wanted to dink around with that to see how well it works, but the thought of having yet another computer program reading my mind worries me. Skynet...I mean...Google is bad enough

[boggo2300]

Who's Weber?

Makes BBQ's

there are NO other Weber's of importance, closest is one that can't win a f1 race,  no others, you hear me guys, NO OTHERS!!

<twitch>, <twitch>, <drool>

Matt

[Marski]

Ha, nice catch there sloan, if I wasn't such a slacker arse lately you would totally get a cookie
And, that would be David Weber : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber
The man who's space battles still indelibly bear the mark of starfire/starfleet battles...

And Dragon...I don't know, always wanted to dink around with that to see how well it works, but the thought of having yet another computer program reading my mind worries me. Skynet...I mean...Google is bad enough

I don't have any sci-fi books save for Metro 2034, so no surprise there as to why I haven't heard of this guy before.

[madpraxis (OP)]

Ah, I'm getting to the point at the local branch of the library that I may just start walking in, going to fiction and just putting my hands apart a few feet and grabbing all the books between them, starting at aa and going thataway ->
Used to have a rather large library myself, obligatory hundreds of sci fi books of course along with many, many others...I miss em...ended up selling 99% of them to (in most cases back too) Powell's...only took a few trips filling my cherokee (not grand cherokee, bleck) up to the brim ...I read to damn fast apparently...

[Bandus]

Love me some David Weber and I'd be thrilled to find he played, was influenced OR to find that Aurora was influenced, by his writing.

[Erik L]

Love me some David Weber and I'd be thrilled to find he played, was influenced OR to find that Aurora was influenced, by his writing.

David Weber wrote most of the 3rd Edition of Starfire, from which Aurora sprang.

[Charlie Beeler]

David Weber wrote most of the 3rd Edition of Starfire, from which Aurora sprang.

He and Steven White were major contributors to 1st and 2nd addition as well.

[Panopticon]

This is pretty clear from even a cursory glance at their work, especially the stuff described as the"Starfire" novels.

[Steve Walmsley]

Love me some David Weber and I'd be thrilled to find he played, was influenced OR to find that Aurora was influenced, by his writing.

I am a Weber fan so his writing (and his work on Starfire 3rd edition) had a big influence on Aurora.

Steve

[niflheimr]

And aurora is flexible enough to recreate all the starfire novels - though maybe not with the same results unless you RP it (like only allowing focus fire if you have a bogus datalink module )