Also...
The book ended up with (mostly) original line art commissioned by Steve Jackson Games. However, at one stage, when the art budget looked a little questionable, I suggested that some processed B&W photographic imagery might work. The company disagreed, but for those who are curious, here's what might almost have become my first art credits in the RPG business after thirty years of writing:
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I suppose they might have had an eye to the future... the South Bank looked great as Future Earth in Doctor Who in 1973, not so great now.
Well, these buildings come from a range of dates (and are in a range of styles) - which I thought suited the book, which doesn't deny that a future city is likely to have structures from across multiple centuries. Though the real selling point here was that these are all pictures of Stockholm, which is the book's big example city.
But as I said, the main reason they were dropped seems to be that - the old WWII line notwithstanding - somebody at SJGames just doesn't want to use photos.
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