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Monday, January 07, 2008

PARANOIA on Amazon 

On Amazon.com's United Kingdom site, loyal citizen Danforth recently posted a list of Mongoose Publishing's PARANOIA products, as well as a companion list of "PARANOIA Oddities" that covers the card game, miniatures, unreleased titles, and sort-of-released-but-not-really titles.

Danforth's list is lightly annotated, making it a bit more useful than the one by Bruce Moffatt on Amazon's US site. But my favorite is still Paul Baldowski's Amazon PARANOIA list. Paul, the proprietor of Omega Complex, includes not only the canonical roleplaying books but also quintessential source material like Stanislaw Lem's novel Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.

(Note: Some of these lists include affiliate links, meaning the list-maker gets a cut of whatever Amazon earns from orders placed via these links. Don't know whether this matters to anyone, but some bloggers argue good netiquette calls for disclosure of affiliate links. Update Jan. 9: Danforth's links aren't affiliate links, sorry.)

Amazon's publication data is infamously error-prone, but with the PARANOIA line they plumb the depths. I can understand the many books credited to me (Allen Varney) as author when I actually edited them, or when I had little to do with them (such as Sector Zero). I can even sort of see how the PARANOIA Gamemaster Screen acquired the title "Drow War" (one of Mongoose's D20 product lines). But somehow Amazon UK has credited my PARANOIA rulebook to one "Diane" Varney, apparently the author of Spinning Designer Yarns. Clearly, Communist saboteurs have infested Amazon. Three treason points!
Posted by: Allen Varney / 1:21 PM

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