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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Spaceships wasn't written (or playtested) on a basis of sales of the previous book justifying another volume. It was always conceived of as a 7 volume series and was written that way. Volume 8 (Transhuman Space) was the only after the fact addition.
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Really? I hadn't heard that. Fair enough. However, I'll point out that Spaceships did sell enough to get a printed copy, unless that was always conceived of from the beginning?
We don't have the sales data anymore, but I had the impression Spaceships did alright. People wanted a copy of it, but I think that had more to do with building spaceships than using pregenerated ones (there's no rush to make a printed version of SS3, for example)