Echoes of Brave New World

ICv2.com has an article on the upcoming Civil War event from Marvel Comics. It quotes a New York Times article on the subject (you may have to register to read this). According to the reporter: The question at the heart of the series is a fundamental one: “Would you give up your civil liberties to feel safer in the world?” …

Brave New Questions

In a comment to one of my posts on Brave New World, AkodoAkira writes: “So my question is this: why are their no new Alphas? Maybe I missed it in one of the books, but what’s the deal with it?” Native alphas come from deltas who have near-death experiences. These people are still affected by the Disappearance Effect that happened …

Brave New Questions Answered

Last week I asked for questions about Brave New World, and you came up with a bunch of them. I’ll do my best to answer them here. If I mess something up, be easy on me. It’s been years since I worked on the Brave New World, and my memory might be something less than perfect. Anyhow on with the …

More Brave New World?

I just spent a few weeks pulling back the curtain on the secrets behind Brave New World, I think I hit upon most of the major secrets. Of course, it’s been over three years since I finished work on the last book in the series, so there’s probably a ton of details that just don’t spring to mind any more. …

My Kind of Town

When I last left off talking about the Brave New World Roleplaying Game, I’d gotten to the destruction of the city of Chicago by the Devastator in 1976 during an event known as the Bicentennial Battle. It’s finally time to reveal what really happened on that terrible day.

Alphas to Omegas

If you’ve been following along with my Brave New World exposé, you may already have your own guesses as to what the rest of the secrets are. Despite that, I’m going to continue on with my effort to fill in all those missing parts of the puzzle.

To Be As Gods

This is “Part Two” of my ongoing exploration of all the things that never got said in while my Brave New World roleplaying game was in print.

Brave New World After All

I got an e-mail last week that asked if I could start writing a bit about Brave New World (the roleplaying game I designed back in 1999) instead of making people wait indefinitely for the long-promised PDF that would reveal all of the setting’s secrets. It was a great idea, and I’m only sad I didn’t think of it first. …