Brin: Life after People

[David Brin]

I talked about lots of great stuff!  Monkeys and cats
might use our old towers to "farm" birds... just guard
one staircase and you've got it... letting the cats or
monkeys evolve smarts, till they build tower houses of
their own!

But that wasn't the tilt the producers wanted.  

Anyone see "my" show "The Architechs"? 
 (http://htyp.org/The_ArchiTECHS)
   Copies can be ordered from the HC web site.
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=75873

I'm running a comedy SF serial on Baen's UNIVERSE
Magazine, online.

Oh, speaking of 10,000 BC...

Game studio owner Steve Jackson and I have been
working together for more than a decade, refining an
"anthropology game".    "Tribes!" is a realistic
role-playing game (formerly called "Darwinopoly"),
that is loads of fun for six to eight players (or
multiple tribes of 8 players each) who follow simple
rules to simulate life as it must have been for our
ancestors, anywhere from 10,000 to 500,000 years ago
-- hunting, foraging, mating, and occasionally
fighting.

(And, yes, it does seem relevant to 10,000 BC mania.)

Can you figure out how to survive... and have
successful offspring... in a world where only your own
wits stand between you and harshness of nature?
Tribes! has been created with the advice of several
prominent anthropologists, as well as one of the most
experienced game designers on the planet. (For more
information see the web site for Steve Jackson Games.
http://www.sjgames.com/tribes/)

Among the things people have found most fascinating is
the sexual politics that can arise from a very simple
rule set.

We’re interested in finding a few anthropology
professors who might like to try the game out on
students, perhaps as a classroom exercise. 

Folks are always welcome at
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/

Thrive all!

> I felt bad that the other scientists got to talk
> about dogs and cats
> and rust and stuff...  What did David get left with?
>  Cockroaches.
> 
> No respect for the science fiction writer!
> 
>  - jmh
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