Sean Barrett (writer)

Sean Barrett (born 1959) is a writer, nucleonicist,[1] former member of the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee, and the grandson of Linton Lomas Barrett. He is the author of GURPS Lensman: Starkly Astounding Space-Opera Adventure, a book of role-playing instructions carefully based upon the Lensman series by E.E. Smith, and authorized by Dr. Smith's literary executor, Verna Smith Trestrail. He was a nucleonicist on the USS Ohio (SSBN-726), and senior health physicist on the Three Mile Island Unit Two Recovery Team.[2]

Bibliography
  • Sean Barrett (1994, revised 2002 by Andrew Hackard). GURPS Lensman. Steve Jackson Games. ISBN 1-55634-527-5. Check date values in: |year= (help) Contains a self-deprecating autobiographical sketch on p. 4, which is included in the excerpt at Steve Jackson Games.
  • Out-Takes from GURPS Lensman
gollark: That's very heavily compressed, too.
gollark: (Wikipedia's text content only (just current versions of main-content-thingy pages) is 15GB)
gollark: With an internet connection that fast, you could literally download Wikipedia (text only, no revisions/talk pages/images/whatever) in 0.6 seconds, and all of it in less than a minute probably, if they could serve it that fast.
gollark: It would just be 200Gbps between the phone and whatever you connect it to. Not to the wider interwebbernet.
gollark: Alternatively, cache stuff in RAM and serve it from there.

References
  1. GURPS Lensman, p. 4.
  2. Personal correspondence 15 April 2006.



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