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Several Doom games, and also Half-Life. Ripping a hole into Hell for travel purposes has been done in Doom, the movie Event Horizon, and the tabletop gaming fr

Several Doom games, and also Half-Life. Ripping a hole into Hell for travel purposes has been done in Doom, the movie Event Horizon, and the tabletop gaming franchise Warhammer 40K. Which goes to show what a terrible idea this all is ;-).

TeMPOraL 10y ago
Also done in an excellent though unfinished series of books, The Salvation War[0]. Albeit travel was only a side effect of the real goal there. [0] - http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=29 http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=29 - full text of Armageddon and Pantheocide available there; the author decided to abandon the series because someone stole his work to destroy his ability to publish it.
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  > the author decided to abandon the series because someone stole his work to destroy his ability to publish it. What do you mean? It seems like the author was publishing it for free online already; how would one steal that work and prevent him from publishing?
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    There are some details scattered around the forum. For starters, one quote from the author[0]: "The third part never got written. We had a contract signed to publish them and they'd been prepared, copy-edited and put into paperback novel format (I actually have the author's preprints) when a . . . . person . . . . stole the copy and published it himself as a torrent. As a result, the whole deal fell through and nobody will touch an already-published work. So, without any possibility of generating return, I ditched the project. There's no chance of going back to it now." I once saw a more detailed story about the guy who stole the copy and alleged reasons for doing it, but I can't find it right now. [0] - http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=16150&sid=41d09d43e7315c436b80ebf95cbe1b21 http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t...
cmdrfred 10y ago
Don't forget Minecraft.
justinpombrio 10y ago
Also Minecraft, where it's called the Nether, and where every meter traveled in the Nether moves you eight meters on the surface.
kefka 10y ago
Nonono, Half-Life was about opening a portal to a Hypervisor. Xen. It could be worse, it could have been the QEMU dimension..... :)

TeMPOraL 10y ago

Also done in an excellent though unfinished series of books, The Salvation War[0]. Albeit travel was only a side effect of the real goal there. [0] - http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=29 http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=29 - full text of Armageddon and Pantheocide available there; the author decided to abandon the series because someone stole his work to destroy his ability to publish it.

pavel_lishin 10y ago
> the author decided to abandon the series because someone stole his work to destroy his ability to publish it. What do you mean? It seems like the author was publishing it for free online already; how would one steal that work and prevent him from publishing?
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  There are some details scattered around the forum. For starters, one quote from the author[0]: "The third part never got written. We had a contract signed to publish them and they'd been prepared, copy-edited and put into paperback novel format (I actually have the author's preprints) when a . . . . person . . . . stole the copy and published it himself as a torrent. As a result, the whole deal fell through and nobody will touch an already-published work. So, without any possibility of generating return, I ditched the project. There's no chance of going back to it now." I once saw a more detailed story about the guy who stole the copy and alleged reasons for doing it, but I can't find it right now. [0] - http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=16150&sid=41d09d43e7315c436b80ebf95cbe1b21 http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t...

cmdrfred 10y ago

Don't forget Minecraft.

justinpombrio 10y ago

Also Minecraft, where it's called the Nether, and where every meter traveled in the Nether moves you eight meters on the surface.

kefka 10y ago

Nonono, Half-Life was about opening a portal to a Hypervisor. Xen. It could be worse, it could have been the QEMU dimension..... :)