Ship Volant

Thomas Bitterman · 18 Feb 2009, 14:45 · from 2009-February.txt.gz

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From: tom at bitterman.net (Thomas Bitterman)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:45:35 -0500
Subject: (urth) Ship Volant
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:

>
> This is another situation where I'm conflicted as to how one would
> represent the Ship Volant.
>
> What makes a ship look like it's flying?
> Does the flying ship have masts?
>

Perhaps it looks like the ship here: http://www.baen.com/ or:
http://www.tor.com/.  There is
a famous sci-fi publisher icon that looks like a zooming rocket (but the
icon has changed
and I can't remember the publisher).  I just figured it was a subtle
reference/joke.


> one more:
> "A fountain rising above waters"
> I've always pictured this as a spray of water. a plume.
> does anyone picture it as a sort of literal, garden fountain. sculptural, I
> mean?


I did.


> any comments appreciated.
> ~witz


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