Got ahold of Cooper's Time Master trilogy where the main character is
something of an Avon Avatar.
Some good ideas, although I don't think the plot developed them as much
as it could. Several parts in particular felt a bit rushed and
contrived, although Tarod was generally very Avonish. His first
girlfriend was also very Annaish. His second girlfriend struck me as a
cross between Cally and Soolin (although a touch to quick to be head over
heels in love with Tarod, willing to die for him, …
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them).
However, must mention the ideas I liked the most (and am wondering how to
translate them into a more directly B7 type story) -
The moment before his execution, Tarod is able to stop time. The irony
is he can only get the tool he needs to escape by letting time start
again (and as his would be executioners have tool he needs, this is
_really_ bad). The idea of everything _stopping_ at Guada Prime with
only Avon unfrozen but unable to more effectively stop events has a
certain appeal.
The basic scenario, castaways who wind up in this time stopped castle and
meet up with Tarod. The basic creepiness of slowly realizing the sun
should have come up long ago and that it hasn't - and that it _won't_.
Ever. Meeting up with one of the most powerful wizard priests who rule
your world - possibly the _only_ one left (the others are in a separate
limbo). Then, slowly realizing there's something wrong. This guy's a
demon (semiliterally) in human form. How to translate this into B7 with
Avon?
The idea, however, that his soul has been removed and needs to be
restored would explain a great deal in some episodes.
Ellynne
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Tanja said:
<Falling out of love with one's country/cause - could this have happened to
Blake, if he hadn't died on Gauda Prime but had seen the post-Federation
turning into anything but his dream?>
That of course depends on what his dream *was* ... something the series
doesn't give us a lot of clues to.
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After I wrote:
<If Servie's Catwoman (though truly, Dayna would look better in the
costume),>
Iain yelled
<Heresy!>
No truly (I was only talking about the costume, really). I don't care for
either of them much, but one has to admit Dayna does have the most beautiful
figure of the actresses in the series.
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"Dana Shilling" <dshilling(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Tanja said:
>
>> Falling out of love with one's country/cause -
>>could this have happened to Blake, if he hadn't died
>> on Gauda Prime but had seen the post-Federation
>>turning into anything but his dream?
>
>Not a problem, he could just slip out the back door of
>the Presidential Palace and start another rebellion.
>
>-(Y)
>
There was always the System to 'sort out'.
Jacqui
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Harriet wrote:
None, as far as I know - I noticed it in a series of articles he wrote
last year about revisiting India. It was his love for India that he was
measuring.
Ah, yes. Now that I think about it, it sounds like something out of the discussion his narrator has in "The Ground Beneath her Feet" about Ormus Cama's songs as comments on India. To make this vaguely B7-connected: Falling out of love with one's country/cause - could this have happened to Blake, if he hadn't died on Gauda …
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Harriet:
But it's so nice to meet someone who says something nice about Rushdie
I must be in the minority of people who came to Rushdie through "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", which I absolutely adored. (Okay, I have a soft spot for children's novels anyway, but I still think it was great by any standards.) I then read "Midnight's Children", "The Moor's Last Sigh", and "The Ground Beneath her Feet"; out of these, "The Moor's Last Sigh" is my favourite - I have mixed feelings about the other two, but I definitely wasn't dissapointed, as they both entertained me and made me think.
Harriet:
that I'll give you another, which is from a book:
And a great quote it is. Thank you.
Tanja
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"Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner(a)tesco.net> wrote:
>
>From: Betty Ragan <ragan(a)sdc.org>
>
>> Responding to me, Jacqui wrote:
>> > >If you have a faster-than-light spaceship, it's no problem at all, as
>> > >the radiation and debris from the supernova can't travel outward faster
>> > >than the speed of light. (That's assuming you know the supernova is
>> > >coming, of course...)
>
>Had a background idea for a story …
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>They are, after all, visible over considerable distances, hundreds if not
>thousands of light years. The one that created the Crab Nebula - 5000 ly
>away - was visible from Earth for three months. The event itself could be
>under continuous observation, with a series of observation platforms
>progressively further away from the star in question. 400 ly from Earth,
>the 1604 supernova has yet to become visible.
>
>A whole new dimension of culture could arise from this. Couples might get
>married under the flare of an exploding star - and then return 20, 50, or 60
>years to celebrate their anniversary watching the same star explode from
>just a little bit further out (tens of light years being a negligible
>distance to an FTL society that can reach the edge of the galaxy).
>Supernovae might form the climax
>of a celebrity comeback concert. A geeky collectors club of rich travellers
>might do the rounds, with an elite inner circle bagging them all every year.
>Supernovae might become a lucrative property, the owners selling observation
>rights, with lawyers haggling over viewing distance limits and other
>minutiae. Eventually, a been-there-done-that 'supernova fatigue' might set
>in, with ensuing public disinterest.
>
>That was the background concept, anyway. Never did get any idea for a plot.
>
>Neil
>
But a tad 'Restaurant at the end of the universe'-ish if one is not careful.
Is it possible to fly through/skim the edge of a star (apart from the asteroid mentioned in (I think) Sarcophagus)
Jacqui
(who did not mean to start an astronomical debate)
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Alas Natasa, I've tried writing fiction and if my characters were any more
stilted, you'd think they were Margaret Thatcher.
My personal opinion is that too many inexperienced people drown underground
because the idea of staying put, with inadequate food, no bedding, possibly
only muddy water, no toilets and having to wait in the dark for several days
(in order to save battery power until it's needed to get out)until the water
level drops is so inconceivable to them that they try to cross …
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rivers when their chances of making it are very slim. A manifestation of
the "it can't happen to *me*" syndrome, perhaps. If I did have any writing
ability, I'd play up the differences in the nature of the characters - eg I
could see Tarrant or Dayna wanting to chance a crossing, whereas Avon (Mr.
"I don't like water sports") or Vila would be more likely to sit tight.
As for me, I'm strongly in favour of listening to the weather forecasts,
delaying a trip if rain is expected, and *never* camping underground.
Helen
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In a message dated Fri, 26 Oct 2001 8:36:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Pat Sumner" <Wildean(a)btopenworld.com> writes:
> Has anyone managed to access the Ghostwatch webcast by any chance?
>
> You're supposed to get to it via www.ukhorizons.tv and click on the ghostwatch
> link.
I thought it was on Saturday and Sunday (despite the Beeb having put the dates as the 26th/27th)?
Nina
Has anyone managed to access the Ghostwatch webcast by any chance?
You're supposed to get to it via www.ukhorizons.tv and click on the ghostwatch
link.
I can't find the webcast.
Has anyone else accessed it?
(If you don't know, "Ghostwatch" was a programme presented by Paul Darrow and
Claudia Christian; they're attempting to detect ghosts live from the Tower of
London).
Wildean
Laia wrote:
<I think he's about the only one who ever even mentions Cally's death after
_Rescue_
Yes, but what I like about it is the way he does it is so very Vilaesque ...
"If I died it'd be a real joke. Who'd care? Who cared about Cally?"
He's still thinking first and foremost about himself, isn't he? It echoes
that line waaaayyy back in Duel:
VILA: Have you thought what might happen if those two don't get back? I
mean, could you operate this ship properly? Well, could you?
He's …
[View More]not worried about Blake and Jenna so much as what might happen to them
(him) if Blake and Jenna were lost.* (Avon *was* insulting him with that
line about proving you care, IMO). Vila is both very consistent and very
honest about this part of himself, it's part of what makes such a
all-for-me-and-me-for-me personality endearing in spite of it ...
*I like this, too. Took a while, but we found out what would happen if they
were lost, and Vila didn't much care for it any more than Fighting for
Freedom ...
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