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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: manic _miner on October 15, 2009, 07:27:20 PM
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Just seen this posted on another site.Might be of interest to some of you.A new magazine for Fantasy and Sci-Fi miniatures.
http://www.the-ancible.com/
Just placed my order for the first issue.This might help fill the gap that Harbinger left behind.
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hmm, be nice if could maybe see some sample content, might wait for a few reviews to appear before commmiting.
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What does 'ancible' mean??
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Oh yes,
I'm still missing some nice real paper like "Harbinger".
I will watch out to get a copy at crisis in antwerp, where usually a lot of the latest newbies are available for "continentals" like me.
Cheers Thomas
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Brave move to bring out a paper magazine in these e-zine days. Best of luck to them, and £4's not that bad a price. Might well look into it.
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What does 'ancible' mean??
Good question! I couldn't find it in my Oxford English dictionary :?
It's probably a made-up name, but I'd like to know for sure.
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Another interesting intersection between communication and technology at work in this text is a human-created device properly called "the Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator." Commonly referred to as "Ancible," a name derived from the novels written by Ursula K. Le Guin in the late twentieth century, this device can transmit messages between galaxies with no lapse of time; it is, in other words, an instantaneous mode of communication, one which hearkens to the draw and desire of technologies such as the ‘real-time' communication in Web-based chat rooms and MUD/MOO environments.
Apparntly its from the Ender's Game series.
http://english.ucsb.edu:591/transcriptions/resources/bookshelf/FMPro?-db=bookshelf.fp3&-format=record_detail.htm&-sortfield=author&-sortfield=citation&-sortfield=date&author_title=Card&-max=20&-recid=22&-find= (http://english.ucsb.edu:591/transcriptions/resources/bookshelf/FMPro?-db=bookshelf.fp3&-format=record_detail.htm&-sortfield=author&-sortfield=citation&-sortfield=date&author_title=Card&-max=20&-recid=22&-find=)
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In Ursula Le Guin, it is an 'Ansible' with an 's', but I guess that they don't want the magazine confused with the SF News zine of the same name
Mike
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Apparntly its from the Ender's Game series.
Ah! A series I've always meant to read, but...... :(
In Ursula Le Guin, it is an 'Ansible' with an 's', but I guess that they don't want the magazine confused with the SF News zine of the same name
Mike
It's a pretty good SciFi name, then, even if fools like me don't get the meaning lol
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hmm, be nice if could maybe see some sample content, might wait for a few reviews to appear before commmiting.
The thing with that is that if a magazine shows off stuff its going to gof or the good bits and if people can see those they might not decide to but it..Its a damned if you do damned if you don't type idea..
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From there Blog..
Delivery News
November 5th, 2009 by kenny
Firstly let me say a big thanks to all those of you out there who have had the faith to order your copies of The Ancible. After a couple of bumps on the road the magazine has gone to the printer and I have a expected delivery date to me at Ancible Central of next Thursday (12th November). On arrival I will be getting the team mobilised to ship out your copies either Thursday or Friday by fast pigeon.
Thanks for you patience and I hope you like what we have put together and continue to support us as we move onwards towards Issue 2
Kenny
Sweet :-*
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Looking forward to getting mine.It has been along time since a good wargames magazine has been out for Sci-Fi and Fantasy games.Harbinger was the last best hope until it went under.
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This looks excellent. Harbinger got into WHSmith though, I certainly hope this does as it doesn't look like a 'zine I want to miss.
Rob
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This looks excellent. Harbinger got into WHSmith though, I certainly hope this does as it doesn't look like a 'zine I want to miss.
Rob
As I understand it there are no plans to distribute through Comag, etc but they will distribute through Simply miniatures into games shops.
Smith's Distribution is prohibitively expensive for a new magazine (one of the reasons Battlefront bought WI, to get into Smiths).
Mike
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well I had given in and was going to order a copy to test for myself, but is wondering why their shop is set out like it is, do they charge p&p on top of the cost of the magazine, why is a 6 issue subscription the same cost as buying the issues individually, or are you saving on postage? which i can't tell as they don't appear to be telling you either way. Damn i'm grumpy considering it's the first day of my week off.
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I think it is post free.I am sure I only paid £4.00 for my issue.
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well I had given in and was going to order a copy to test for myself, but is wondering why their shop is set out like it is, do they charge p&p on top of the cost of the magazine, why is a 6 issue subscription the same cost as buying the issues individually, or are you saving on postage? which i can't tell as they don't appear to be telling you either way. Damn i'm grumpy considering it's the first day of my week off.
Nope post free by the looks my cost was the same as Manic_Miner's..
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Just noticed that the site is saying that they ahve it so i'll be sitting one of the kids by the post box till mine comes :D
http://www.the-ancible.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&Itemid=95
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Just had my email saying it has shipped :).
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Just had my email saying it has shipped :).
Nice hope you ahve your's now..I've been reading mine on the Train to work. Some real good stuff in there..This forum is also mentioned in an Article called 5 minutes Online.
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Got my issue saturday.Very impressed with it.Issue two has a conan adventure which sounds like it might be good.
Some how to articles would be nice to see.
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Got my issue saturday.Very impressed with it.Issue two has a conan adventure which sounds like it might be good.
Some how to articles would be nice to see.
How to what chap??
I guess with anything its getting people to come forward and do the article..
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Some how to articles on Terrain building,painting,sculpting and other articles that help make the game and battlefield more interesting.
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Looks like a good magazine. I'll definately be ordering a copy, as nothing beats having something in your hand instead of squinting at a computer screen.
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Some how to articles on Terrain building,painting,sculpting and other articles that help make the game and battlefield more interesting.
I could not do an article myself but plenty of others on here are very good at it.Some downloadable templates would be a nice addition for the web site too.
Down loadable templates what on how to do an article or such??
I'm sure the guys would love to have articles from people..I guess all it takes is for people to say hey i have an idea..