Barrier Peaks Bibliography Help

Alfred O'Meagher said:

> "1e:
>no real guide here as 1e ranges from the very sensible and very old things
>from the very first Dave Arneson campaign to IMO the contrived excesses of
>Unearthed Arcana. The Arneson approach would seem to be "what the hell,
>put it in, so what" along the lines of the several actual starships in his
>setting, the Gygax approach is of course more like "whatever you give to
>players, take back off of them as soon as possible. Plus, put cool stuff
out
>of reach or in the hands of god-like NPCs". The thing never addressed in my
>knowledge to date is, if the Barrier Peaks starship works in D&D (and all
>its other technology did), then why wouldn't "spelljammers" be more like
>that ship? And if it is a function of levels of knowledge, then somewhere
>out there in the flow, there would have to be another culture building
>Barrier Peaks type ships. One of which would destroy pretty much all the
>spelljammers in creation IMO.


I agree totally with you! 1st was quite instable, but i have to admit a love
it more than any other (except perhaps OD&D). About the Barrier Peaks issue,
a do not remeber which of the old books got it. Was it in the DA series?
Please send a short bibliografy. I want to study these All-Powerful Ships!