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David Welbourn

@dswxyz.bsky.social

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Interactive fiction author, player, walkthrough writer, wiki editor, and enthusiast. Also known to like other things, such as tea. Cis ⚣♑︎. He/him.

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David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today, I published new #intfiction #walkthroughs for Tableaux Vivants (2026), Ruined Temple (2026), Bob The Barbarian (2026), Out by Midnight (2026), Alana's Dungeon (2026), Black Thumb (2026), Live And Get Pie (2026), and Try Again (2016)! See IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for September 2026 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 01/09/2026

The Visible Witness is now available. eblong.com/infocom/visi... blog.zarfhome.com/2026/09/visi...

The Visible Zorker: The Witness

A software exhibit that allows you to explore The Witness and also The Witness's source code at the same time.

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Reminder that IF Comp 2026's games will arrive tomorrow! ifcomp.org #intfiction #interactivefiction #games

The Interactive Fiction Competition

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New #intfiction #walkthroughs today for Kinophobia (2025), Grand Island Bank Robbery (2026), Dead Man's Chest (2026), Acid Whiplash (1998), The City (1998), The End Means Escape (2000), Nerves of Silicon (2026), and A Very Strong Gland (2024)! IFDB List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for August 2026 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New #intfiction #walkthroughs today for Christminster (1995), The Most Valuable Card in the World (2026), The Woodcutter's Quest (2026), Like a Sky Full of Locusts (2024), 19 Once (2024), A Normal Morning (2025), Prodly the Puffin (2000), and SchoolAdventure (2026)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for July 2026 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sale Time! It's HOT but the bargains are even HOTTER store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa... 🔥 IMMORTALITY - $11.99 📹 TELLING LIES - $4.99 ☕ HER STORY - $4.99 And you are obliged to 💫Wishlist our upcoming projects PROJECT C and PROJECT D whilst you're at it! #SteamSale #SteamSummerSale #Cheap #Art

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New #intfiction #walkthroughs today for Starcross (1982), Eclipse (2026), Photopia (1998), The Cruel Count's Castle (2026), The Antediluvian Weapon (2026), Epic Expedition (2026), The Gnomish Treasury (2026), and Violet (2008)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for June 2026 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New walkthroughs today for The White Bull (2012), Adventures of Helpfulman (1999), The Thief of the Woven Woods (2011), The Time Machine (2024), Ransack! (2026), Loadstone (2025), The Missing City Council (2026), A Potion Labeled 'Time' (2020), and Window Washer (2025)! ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for May 2026 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It has belatedly occurred to me that people might not be finding my interactive fiction walkthroughs at plover.net/~davidw/sol/... via my usual monthly posts because I rarely say #InteractiveFiction or similar explicitly in full. My bad.

Works with walkthroughs or maps | Key & Compass

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Playing IF is having the sudden realization that the hipwaders you found hours ago will help protect you from the shag carpeting in the nostalgia shop.

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New walkthroughs for The Horror of Goldmine City (2026), The Board of Regents (2025), Stooping to Diplomacy (2026), Homo Sapiens (2026), Immune System (2020), A king has... (2025), PURE (2025), Vampire Ltd (2020), and Zugzwang (2024)! See list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for April 2026 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

New walkthroughs for Within the Woods (2026); Wolfsmoon (2019); When the Millennium Makes Marvelous Moves (2024); The Land of Breakfast and Lunch (2020); Chez Dark Shade Ark (2025); Dusk, Airy, Does Carry (2025); Night of the Living Not-Dead (2025); Rana's Reception (2025)! ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for March 2026 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Today I published new walkthroughs for Time: All Things Come to an End (1996), The Party Line (2020), Zodiac (2025), The Seeds of Evil (2026), Every Day I Get Emails (2025), I Have No Verbs (2025), The Loneliest House (2023), and Reference and Representation (2016)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for February 2026 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Today I published new walkthroughs for Unknown Dimension; All That Shimmers; Kill Wizard; Quirky Test; Uptown 1; Ancient Treasure, Secret Spider; greenskeep; and The Organ Grinder's Monkey, all from 2025! List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for January 2026 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 26/01/2026

Here we go... Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-...

blog.zarfhome.com

The Visible Zorker Project (and Patreon)

Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon. The plan: deconstruct every Infocom game, one per month, and make the source code explorable.

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A couple days ago, I found the fire emoji in Infinite Craft, quite by accident, and I've spent time I don't have finding more emojis via that first one. It feels like I've unlocked a secret section of the game. I'm documenting my finds at plover.net/~davidw/ic/I...

Infinite Craft Emojis

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

By the way, did I mention I wrote a new Christmas-themed Pokemon-inspired game? ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...

Snowémon Ho Ho Ho!

You're an adventurer on holiday, and you decided to take it easy by traveling to a remote northern town and search for snowémon, which are creatures made of snow and ice. Find as many different kinds ...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Here's my year's-end round-up of all the walkthroughs I published in 2025, represented by their Open Graph arwork: plover.net/~davidw/sol/...

Year of Walkthroughs: 2025

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

New walkthroughs for The Wise-Woman's Dog (2025); The Evil Sorcerer (2001); The Wrath of Anubis (2025); Caribbean Treasure (2025); Beat Me Up Scotty (2023); Cheese, Go Home! (2008); Fired (2025); Go-Strange-Ghost Range (2025); Limen (2021); and Rain Check-in (2025)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for December 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

New walkthroughs for Veritas (1995), Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata? (2025), Guma Adventure III (2024), Rise of the Necropolis (2018), AardVarK Versus the Hype (2021), Monkeys and Car Keys (2025), Return to the Castle (2020), and The Semantagician's Assistant (2025)! IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for November 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I published new walkthroughs today for The Wizard Sniffer (2017), Frankenfingers (2025), Phobos (2025), Willy's Manor (2025), Dreadwine (2006), The Gate (2004), In The End (1996), and The Job (2021)! See IFDB for details! ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for October 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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Ludum Dare @ludumdare.com · 05/10/2025

The Ludum Dare 58 Compo event has ended! It is now submission hour! Package up and submit your games now! Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I've published new walkthroughs for House of Dream of Moon (2007), Tin Star (2025), Desperados (2025), Clickbait (2025), The Abyss (2015), Keeping Dido (2013), Old fogey (2015), and Shadow Soldiers (2007)! IFDB Link at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for September 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

New walkthroughs for EYE (2025), Wild West (2025), Cave Adventure (2007), Quest of the Mysteries (2025), Roguelike Goose (2020), Adventura (2017), Mouse Quest (2016), A Remote Problem (2025), and Swap Wand User (2025)! See the IFDB List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for August 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

New walkthroughs for Tempus Fugit (2025), A Taste of Terror (2025), Renegade Brainwave (2010), Monk by the Sea (2020), BLACK'N'WHITE Rag (1996), Life of A Librarian (2013), Not in Venice (2012), and That Damn Remote (2009)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=... for links and details.

New walkthroughs for July 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Is the #ifMud down? I'm trying to login for #ClubFloyd but I'm just not connecting.

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So, CF played Roguelike Goose. What do next? Continue Cave Adventure or A Remote Problem? But, walkthrus for Keeping Dido and Monk by the Sea await! Cooked huge skillet dish. Oh! Garry Francis pub'd A Taste of Terror! Must play! So many rooms! Relax? NO! EYE by Arthur DiBianca! Sleep later! *zoink*

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

New walkthroughs today for Cut the Sky (2025), Fat Bear (2025), Fixing Time (2025), Escape from the SS Borgarís (2003), Escape from the Troll's Cave (2024), Guilded Youth (2012), Retool Looter (2025), and Stealth Adventure (2024)! IFDB List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for June 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

New walkthroughs today for The Time Crystals of Cythii (2025), Eurydice (2012), Crash (2022), Iceweb (2016), ADRIFT (2022), The Crew (2021), Mammal (2012), and Witch Hedwig and the Magic Berries Brew (2025)! See IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for May 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hooray! New walkthroughs today for Andromeda Awakening (2011-2012), The Prairie House (2022), Deephome (1999), Locked Door series (2022), Baretegi (2016), Lime Ergot (2014), NEST (2023), and Yet another experiment (2020)! List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for April 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 01/04/2025

Nice Myst analysis: a graph of the original game's nodes, extracted from the Hypercard source code. glthr.com/myst-graph-1

The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst

Upon reflection, Myst has long been more analogous to a graph than a traditional linear game, owing to the relative freedom it affords players. This is particularly evident in its first release (Macintosh, 1993), which was composed of interconnected ...

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Inform 7 source code for my IFComp game "Bad Beer" is now freely available in the IFArchive. It is also linked from Bad Beer's IFDB game web page. April 1 is Source Code Amnesty Day for interactive fiction games. More info about my release in my intfiction forum post intfiction.org/t/source-cod...

Source Code Amnesty Day 2025

Bad Beer’s Inform 7 source code is in IFArchive and linked from the IFDB game page: The source code is presented in its original untidied form. Rather devoid of comments 😜 Using chapters to break u...

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 01/04/2025

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of my #InteractiveFiction text adventure, Augmented Fourth, today. It's remained modestly popular amongst Zork fanatics and ear training professors and can still be played online today: www.urizone.net/aug4.uri

Augmented Fourth cover art, from its 4th release in 2020. Original cover art was created by Rikard Peterson.

The original game announcement on rec.games.int-fiction, April 1, 2000.

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

New walkthroughs today for A Train to Piccadilly (2024), Hinterlands: Delivered! (2023), Words of Power (2002), Inhumane (1985), Anolelona (2025), Pizza Delivery (2018), Sand-dancer (2010), and Tableaux (2025)! See the list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for March 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

New walkthroughs today for Another Earth, Another Sky (2002); Late Night at the Mall (2024); Hangman's Gulch (2024); Mind the Gap (2020); The Babysitter (2024); A Dodecapedic box (2024); Mars, 2039 AD (2024); and No More (2024). Hooray! See list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for February 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Come listen to me, Emily Short and @annamegill.com talk about worldbuilding with narrative systems and story at GDC! schedule.gdconf.com/session/how-...

Screenshot of GDC schedule showing our talk is scheduled for Thursday, March 20th at 9:30am

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

New walkthroughs for Snowquest (2009), The Sueño (2015), Thornfell Manor: 1984 (2024), The Basilisk and the Banana (2024), The eight-headed giant (2024), Ghost Hunt (2024), Museum of Paranormal Phenomena (2024), and Not Another Sad Meal (2024)! The IFDB list is at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for January 2025 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 28/01/2025

no reason australyear.blogspot.com/2008/05/re-o...

The Antarctic treaty prevents us from keeping any sort of livestock, and we're completely cut off (physically) from the outside world through the winter. Eggs - important not only for breakfast, but also for most of the baking done here - will ordinarily only last a couple of months, but if you keep them well oiled, the oil will seal the shells and keep them from going off until fresh supplies come in November.

They were all oiled at the start of the season, and last night it was time to freshen up their coatings. About half the station crowded into the kitchen, poured themselves bowl after bowl of canola oil, and started dipping, rolling, and massaging eggs. There were the predictable casualties (beer, very oily hands, and thousands of eggs were never meant to go together), but within an hour we'd unpacked, oiled, and repacked more eggs than most people see in a lifetime.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19/01/2025

Join us for SINGIN' IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN as we celebrate thousands of works newly free to enjoy, remix, and reimagine! 🎶🎬 📅 Jan 22 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ REGISTER ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1104135491979 @InternetArchive #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Speaking of Infocom, check out @eblong.com's new Visible Zorker project, where you can play Zork in your browser, but also see what's happening in the source code underneath, at the same time!

The Visible Zorker

A software exhibit that allows you to explore Zork and also Zork's source code at the same time.

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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 27/12/2024

🎄 Behind door 27 of the Confounding Calendar, an advent calendar of puzzling treats, you find... ✨ "Advent Window" by @eblong.com zarf.itch.io/advent-...

Advent Window by zarf

Interactive fiction. Play in your browser

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A visual summary: Year of Walkthroughs: 2024 plover.net/~davidw/sol/...

Year of Walkthroughs: 2024

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Happy holidays! New walkthroughs today for So Far (1996), Castle Ralf (1987), Tristam Island (2020), Bright Brave Knight Knave (2023), Chinese Family Dinner Moment (2023), and the first five Painless Little Stupid Games (2011). IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for December 2024 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New walkthroughs for Last-Minute Magic (2024), Hildy (2024), The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb (2024), The Gorreven Papers (2014), Dark and Deep (2024), Fireboat (2024), and Your Little Haunting (2024). See list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for November 2024 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

New walkthroughs tonight for The Little Match Girl and His Holiness Pope Pius IX (2024), Hebe (2024), Dust (2024), A Warm Reception (2024), Breakfast in the Dolomites (2024), A Walk Around the Neighborhood (2022), and Where Nothing Is Ever Named (2024). See the list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for October 2024 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Huzzah! New walkthroughs today for Never Gives Up Her Dead (2023), Bureau of Strange Happenings (2024), Why Pout? (2024), Awakened Deeply (2024), and Bad Beer (2024)! See the list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

New walkthroughs for September 2024 - Recommended List

IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

David Welbourn @dswxyz.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

I wonder if zarf has any plans whatsoever for a game called Advent Window. scryfall.com/card/dsk/255...

Abandoned Campground

Land • Abandoned Campground enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. • Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) #255 • Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu • Magic: The Gathering, MT...

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Three Helpful SF-Related Rules of Thumb, According to Me "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" reactormag.com/three-helpfu...

Three Helpful SF-Related Rules of Thumb, According to Me - Reactor

Behold, Nicoll's Three Laws: pithy observations on science, language, and space exploration.