1)
Yes.
I'll repost here what I said on FB: "Certainly. The Realms (with Tempus in it) started in 1966; so far as I can recall, the first Mirt tale in which I mentioned Tempus was written in 1968. Thieves World first saw print in 1978, the Sacred Band envisaged...
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Yes.
I'll repost here what I said on FB: "Certainly. The Realms (with Tempus in it) started in 1966; so far as I can recall, the first Mirt tale in which I mentioned Tempus was written in 1968. Thieves World first saw print in 1978, the Sacred Band envisaged...
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https://twitter.com/gkrashos/status/1343427792512319489
2)
...as a series later. "Tempus" is Latin for time, and I named my wargod for time as a nod to the 'history is written on the battlefield' saying, and for this: my father was in signals (radar) and military intelligence with the Canadian forces, and did work on...
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...as a series later. "Tempus" is Latin for time, and I named my wargod for time as a nod to the 'history is written on the battlefield' saying, and for this: my father was in signals (radar) and military intelligence with the Canadian forces, and did work on...
#Realmslore
3)
...missile guidance in the Cold War, in which accurate targeting in tests was written down as "YTIO" in case 'the wrong eyes' saw the writings; YTIO stands for "Your Time Is Up." So I borrowed the word tempus for my wargod. Years later, I asked Bob Asprin where...
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...missile guidance in the Cold War, in which accurate targeting in tests was written down as "YTIO" in case 'the wrong eyes' saw the writings; YTIO stands for "Your Time Is Up." So I borrowed the word tempus for my wargod. Years later, I asked Bob Asprin where...
#Realmslore
4)
...he came up with the TW pantheon from, and he said Poul Anderson and Andy Offut cooked up the pantheon between them (or rather, one contributed a single page of ideas and the other "fixed" it by fleshing it out), and the gods' names were ALL in-jokes, allusions,
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...he came up with the TW pantheon from, and he said Poul Anderson and Andy Offut cooked up the pantheon between them (or rather, one contributed a single page of ideas and the other "fixed" it by fleshing it out), and the gods' names were ALL in-jokes, allusions,
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5)
...and literary references, some very obscure. My connection with Asprin came through Hugo-winner Mike Glicksohn, my wife's nephew, who received an original "wanna contribute?" TW package, and much later showed it to me while we were drinking an evening away...
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...and literary references, some very obscure. My connection with Asprin came through Hugo-winner Mike Glicksohn, my wife's nephew, who received an original "wanna contribute?" TW package, and much later showed it to me while we were drinking an evening away...
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6)
...Roger Zelazny over a poker game (more talking storytelling than playing, and more devouring pears and Stilton than drinking).
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...Roger Zelazny over a poker game (more talking storytelling than playing, and more devouring pears and Stilton than drinking).
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