>Are there any source materials (anime, tv show, movie, etc.) in UF
>that in retrospect you wish you hadn't included?

Oh yes. Although, to be fair, they aren't always things I included. (Simple courtesy forbids examining that notion more closely.) What, for example, was I thinking with the Animaniacs references in the early '90s?

Sometimes the things that give me trouble are my own inventions, though. The Zeta Cygni Dyson sphere, for instance, is cool and distinctive, and (though it's a standard sci-fi trope) not directly referential to anything, but as a practical proposition it's given me a lot of headaches over the years, and I'd probably have been better off if I hadn't done it. If I were doing Crossroads now (which gods forbid, but), New Avalon would probably be on a Halo, or possibly inside a Rama-like construct in its own orbit of Zeta Cygni. Or just on Zeta Cygni II. It's not like there's a shortage of real estate there.

>Are there any source materials you'd like to include but have trouble
>finding the right way to work them in?

Sure. I'm not going to list them, because people would want to be helpful and start suggesting ways, and I've already got too much to do, but absolutely, there are things that I've either not found a good way to include, or (rare in the UF settings) things that I've concluded there just isn't a good way to include, usually because they're so closely identified with their original setting and/or era that sliding them into a space-opera future, even one as malleable as UF's, never rings true. That kind of thing doesn't happen that often, though, simply because part of the fun of working in UF is trying to find new ways of fitting things together, and seeing how far you can pull something without breaking it. Rally Vincent from Gunsmith Cats, for instance, would be hilarious as a 25th-century, UF-universe, Star Wars-style "bounty hunter" instead of a private eye chasing bail jumpers in 20th-century Chicago; I've just never found the time to make it happen.

--G.
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