[TML] Low Berths

[Richard Aiken]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:46 PM,  <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> On 28 Jul 2008 at 16:53, Leon Wu wrote:
> It's consistent with the stories that slow drug, fast drug, low
> bergths (and the low lottery) were borrowed from: E C Tubb's
> "Dumarest" stories.

Granted, I've only read "The Winds of Gath" thus far (although I
intend to buy the rest, as finances allow).  But I didn't get that at
all.  Low passage shouldn't be taken by *unhealthy* folks - these
would die - but a reasonably healthy person wasn't taking very much
risk.  It was simply the cheapest way to travel.  The "low lottery"
which shows up in this book - run by the merchant who owns/runs the
only real settlement on Gath - is arranged to *give* one lucky
Traveller a Low Passage ticket as their prize.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein