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Wow, another awesome start to the new year with new novels from Powys! Android Planet? Phoenix of Megaron? I guess I shall just have to get both!!
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[b]PatS wrote:[/b]Is it time for a new poll?
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…and can I just say your Captain Kangaroo/Carter sig made me ROFL??? Love it! :laugh:
Well, Steve, since you have highlighted your copy to help us with typos, I’ll send you a corrected copy later, on me.
Thanks!
[b]mateo wrote:[/b]
[quote]Well, Steve, since you have highlighted your copy to help us with typos, I’ll send you a corrected copy later, on me.Thanks![/quote]
Why Mr L, you’re a gentleman 😉 btw, I did the same with “Survival”, but don’t tell anyone! 😉 😛
Right, I’m going to make myself a cup of tea (having had a nice long soak in the bath) and then settle down with AP and my highlighter pen.
I can hear the voice of Barbara Bain, from the “Breakaway US TV Premier” intro now, as she says…
“Come with us… to Moonbase Alpha…” B) 😉
We formatted Android Planet in the same size font as our other books. The original book was 159 pages, this one is probably a little longer with all the additions (though some things were deleted too). But in the smaller font that we use, it came out to fewer pages.
The novel is what it is. I wanted to respect that and not pad it with additional chapters of filler for the sake of length. John Mason and I changed what needed to be changed to fit the novel into the Powysverse, but we worked those changes into the novel as written. We tried to stay as true to the original work as we could while fulfilling our promise to fit the series’s continuity.
Read Chapter 1 last night. Ye Gods! This book is a fantastic read! :cheer: the cliffhanger at the end of Chapter 1…
[spoiler]where the column of Moondust has been whipped up and is heading for the base[/spoiler]
…stuck in my mind long after I’d read it. I could just see it in my mind! What a ride this novel is!
REGARDING TYPO’S:
Mr L, how do I send the Typo’s to you? (tried to PM you on here… but I can’t find a way to do that). Should I just list them on this thread? I’ve classed them as 1. Typos’s (wrong word used, misspelling), 2. Missing Words, 3. Oddities (phrases/sentences that make no sense that could either be just JR’s way of describing something or an Americanism that doesn’t translate into Queen’s Engllish! Haha!) 4. Missing Punctuation 5. Names of Alpha Sections that should be in Capitals but aren’t 😉
1. = 4
2. = 4
3. = 5
4. = 2
5. = 1Like I say, the important thing to say is:
THIS IS A FANTASTIC [b]SPACE: 1999[/b] NOVEL! :cheer:
But there’re minor errors/typo’s in the text :blush: :blink:
Steve,
You have read the book and have sent Mateo the book back with the typos highlighted. My question is is the book still readable or would you suggest that we all buy a new copy of the book when the corrections have been made? Thanks MIKEI’ve nearly finished AP and the mistakes didn’t really bother me…
…yes they’re there if you go looking for them – but I was more interested in the story…
maybe I’m easily pleased :laugh:
To modify an old limerick:
No matter how much you check
And how closely you look
There’ll always be typos
Left in the bookUnfortunately!
But if you send them to us, we will do our best to fix them for future printings (meaning: we fix them, then upload the new version of the manuscript to Lulu, and immediately any new books printed are fixed!).
Send ’em! We’ve only received one email with a few typos noticed—in Omega!
One great advantage of POD–you can fix ’em as you go along. Much better than having thousands of printed typos in boxes.
[b]alphan 4ever wrote:[/b]
[quote]Steve,
You have read the book and have sent Mateo the book back with the typos highlighted. My question is is the book still readable or would you suggest that we all buy a new copy of the book when the corrections have been made? Thanks MIKE[/quote]Hi Mike. Sorry I’ve not replied sooner. Much as I love Powys and adore their books, I’ve been somewhat distracted by:
1. Stuff involving mates (friends, in case that phrase doesn’t translate into American!) 😉
2. Being diagnosed with a mental health problem. Nope, I’m not bonkers. I apparently suffer with something called “Atypical Depression” (look it up on Wiki folks!).Anyway, all of this aside, can I just say, Typos’s are a REALLY minor point. I notice them, so I mention to Mateo via the Forum, that I’ve noticed them.
But as for the book itself… Mike, what are you waiting for?!? BUY IT NOW! It’s brilliant… I’ve only read Chapters’ 1 and 2. I’ve not had time or energy to read beyond that, due to the previously mentioned distractions 😉
If you haven’t bought it, please do. Without people buying the books, Powys can’t release more. So please, PLEASE! [size=5]PLEASE![/size] buy these wonderful, imaginative, really well written, provocative, controversial books & then Powys will release LOTS more of them! 😉
PS: I don’t work for Powys Media. I live in the UK (home of Bowler Hats, John Steed, Tea, The Queen and the Royal Family, Tea, Skinheads (like me, who’re neither racist or agressive and are actually jolly nice people to know!), Tea, and, perhaps MOST importantly of all, the birthplace of [b]SPACE: 1999[/b], Blake’s 7, Crossroads, The Avengers, Doctor Who and many other wonderful TV Series!) 😉
I enjoyed the book.
I would call it a “space opera”[SPOILER]By which I mean that out heroes spend much of the time being captured and escaping. 😆
There were some nice character moments. I liked the “spring lamb” comment to Helena. And the relationship between Sandra and Morrow, which was always very inconsistent on TV, is well handled here.
Not sure if Koenig really would threaten to kill someone just because Helena is threatened.
I’m guessing that the updates involved some of the supporting cast such as Verdeschi ?
The book is very plot driven so I would have liked it if the author had taken a little more time to expand on the characters of the two warring races.
Overall a good read. [/SPOILER]
The relationship between Sandra and Paul is precisely one of the things we worked on in the revisions. In the original novel, their relationship is…well…a little shocking. Paul continually dismisses her ideas, derides her as being less intelligent, and threatens her with physical violence (not that he’s serious) as a matter of course. At one point, as she’s struggling with a task, he licks the back of her neck! [Seriously, look ’em up in the original book!] We changed this and made Morrow a more supportive character.
There are many, many small revisions that the casual reader would never notice—which is good. We didn’t WANT readers to notice them!
The big revisions dealt with mostly technical issues: the eagles no longer have WHEELS that drop down out of the four cuboid pods (so they can tow it across the surface!), and the stunguns no longer freeze you in place like the flame guns on the television version of Logan’s Run (with no after-effects, and with the victim unaware they’d been shot).
I tried to change only those things that HAD to be changed to fit into the series, into the Powysverse. John Mason made sure that all the rewrites matched his father’s style.
Yay! Arrived home to find two Lulu packages on the doorstep… Android planet is here, the thrill of opening a package to find a crisp, clean, white-paged new Space 1999 book. Ahhhh that fresh, new-book smell when you first open it.
You know what that means… H A P P Y – D A N C E
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