09-26-2012, 01:48 AM
(09-23-2012, 04:39 PM)Greybeard Wrote: This is just an historical oddity about The Known World, that I came across when reading a book authored by Gary Alan Fine "Shared Fantasy: role-playing games as social worlds" University of Chicago Press, 1983 (paperback 2002).
He mentions Phil Barker which made me do a double-take. But this Phil Barker who died this year was the designer of the game Empire of the Petal Throne and Tekumel. Phil Barker of Wargames Research Group fame, Society of Ancients and Slingshot, and player in The Known World is apparently related to the US Phil Barker - distant cousins!
The real world is in some respects a small world...
Sad to hear about his death, I read his novel, "Man in Gold" set in his RPG and novel universe. I liked it, but never saw his other novels for sale in book stores.