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HOLLOW_AMBER

                                                         January 31, 2003
Our present earth is just a shadow
of the perfection that is Amber?
                                        MAKER
  Okay, that plays.

     But when you get to Amber, you
     discover that the one true reality
     is a cardboard, quasi-medieval
     place populated by a handful of           The disappointment
     spiteful siblings (and a nation of        of Galifrey.
     largely unseen spear carriers).

                                             "It's pretty obvious from this
  If Amber is the perfect city,              that Amber is itself a shadow, and
  I'd rather hang in Gibson's Sprawl.        a pretty thin one at that, a
                                             half-realized and two-dimensional
                                             fantasy drawing from what is
                                             really the one true world - ours."
                                             
                                                 --Endymion of alt.gothic



                                                   " ...  on second thought,
                                                   let's not go to Camelot.
                                                   It is a silly place."







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