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I am very much enjoying watching Year One on Blu Ray at the moment so I look forward to reading this book in the new year. 🙂
[SPOILER]I was reading Destination Moonbase Alpha by Robert E Wood and in his commentary for the episode Voyager’s Return (which I watched last night) he says that the Voyager memory banks which are a plot point in that episode are featured again in Android Planet. So I look forward to seeing how that turns out. 🙂 [/SPOILER]
I can’t say I agree with that observation. A little information is gleaned, little more. It was just the author really taking an interest in the series and making an effort to insert some continuity.
[url=http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php][img]http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/worthy.gif[/img][/url][b]mateo wrote:[/b]
[quote] It was just the author really taking an interest in the series and making an effort to insert some continuity.[/quote]So, would you say this is why JR’s novels and novelizations are are so much different in tone, and (IMHO) truer to the on-screen characterizations? I don’t know how these particular authors were “chosen” to do the novelizations, but it’s notable that JR did three of the six original books, Tubb did 2, then went off and reinvented everything in [u]Earthfall [/u](and dang I got to get me a copy of [u]Earthbound [/u]somehow…) and Ball did one of the six and then that was pretty much it for a long while. Until reading Dead End earlier this year, I’d forgotten how many of Tubb’s Alphans seem a tad dysfunctional. I’ll be the first to admit I’ve never read any of his other books/stories, but, are his other characters all so quick to hit the mind-altering substances? :blink:
Would you go out on a limb and say Rankine had an affection for the series that the others may not have had?[url=http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php][img]http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/spock.gif[/img][/url]
-Pat.
Somebody is smiling down on me – I just snatched a copy of Earthbound from ebay.co.uk Merry Christmas to me.
Tubb did a reimagining of the series. I think it MUST have intrigued him at least as much as it did Rankine.
Well, the manuscript is now in the hands of John Mason, John Rankine’s (Douglas R. Mason’s) son. He’s a busy man and it is the holiday season, but we have “Chasing the Cyclops” to look forward to.
In addition, I thought I’d just be a bastard and say that although I only have the background image for the Android Planet cover (there are a few foreground details still to be added), “It is STUNNING!” THE best Ken Scott cover to date!
To recap our 2010 releases:
January: Shepherd Moon
Early February: Born for Adversity
Late February: Omega
Early March: Alpha (technically this book was made available for purchase on the same day as Omega)
Early May: Resurrection audiobook
Late May: The House Between soundtrack
November: Spider’s Web audiobook
December: Chasing the Cyclops2011:
January: Android Planet
January: Tecamachalco Underground: Innocence (music EP)
February: Phoenix of Megaron
And more to come!I remember at the time that all three author’s had short novels being released in the sci-fi genre. I have a book of Ball’s called Moonbase which is interesting to read from the point of view of comparison. It is so like his novelisations of the TV series that it is a bit like, “only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” You’re right Pat, Tubb’s characters do tend to hit the drugs a bit quickly in all of his books from that era. But, if you think back to that time, the dream was that pretty much anything could be cured with a pill of one type or another.
One of the things I loved about the Tubb books was the concepts he covered, “Alien Seed” with its mysterious space object of immense beauty hiding a deadly menace and “Rogue Planet” with its hidden pocket of space. The Rankine books were enjoyable but were fairly ordinary adventures set in alien but familiar settings.
I love all of my 1999 books and remember the thrill of the chase when finding a missing volume at a book fair or second hand book store or church jumble sale. I still have them all, both the US and UK editions, battered but well loved volumes taking pride of place in my Gerry Anderson bookcase. If Powys keep going it will be my 1999 bookcase… 🙂[quote]I just snatched a copy of Earthbound [/quote]
Can someone enlighten me…I hear Earthbound and Earthfall mentioned alot. What is the premise of these novels? I know E.C.Tubb wrote them both, and I sense that Earthfall was a reimagining of some sort. Was Earthbound a sequel, or the novelization of the episode by that name, or what?
I read Tubb’s Alien Seed and enjoyed it…
[b]kerry wrote:[/b]
[quote]Can someone enlighten me…I hear Earthbound and Earthfall mentioned alot. What is the premise of these novels? I know E.C.Tubb wrote them both, and I sense that Earthfall was a reimagining of some sort. Was Earthbound a sequel, or the novelization of the episode by that name, or what?
I read Tubb’s Alien Seed and enjoyed it…[/quote]
Earthfall is a re-imagining of the moon leaving Earth’s orbit. The nuclear waste causes a sub-space something or other and the moon eventually returns. In the meantime, Alpha is something of a hippie colony. Sorry, but that is the best I can compare it to. For example, Helena slips Koenig a Mickey, or at least a powerful version of Viagra, to find out what he [i]really [/i]thinks about her. :blush: She’s apparently not as reserved as we’ve been led to believe. There is a second generation of Alphans, and there are some Rogue Planet like events (or maybe similar to Alien Seed – it’s been a while). All of this is based on a faulty memory, mind you. Earthfall was originally published in 1977, but Fanderson re-released it, reformatted and with some corrections.
Earthbound is a novelization of the episode (also to be novelized in Powys’ soon-to-be-released Y1 omnibus, for the record) and novelizations of Face of Eden (which became The Immunity Syndrome) and The Exiles, both of which were originally scripted in Y1 format. This was published by Fanderson in 2003. There is another copy currently available on eBay.co.uk – I picked one up several hours ago, but apparently the seller had more than one.
Earthfall is available from Fanderson again, I think, but Earthbound is not. If you liked Alien Seed, you’ll probably like Earthfall. I like Tubb’s stories, but am not so keen on the characterizations. Everybody seems, well, sort of rude. :dry:
From where I sit, I am interested in seeing how the Y1 Omnibus version of Earthbound compares to Tubb’s 2003 version. Same story – it’ll be interesting to see the spins put on them. :silly:
-Pat.
Subspace? Hippies? Viagra?! Holy crap, now there’s a diversion. Got me intrigued now.
So, do the episodes in that Earthbound stick with the traditional continuity, or the hippy one?
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[quote]There is another copy currently available on eBay.co.uk – I picked one up several hours ago, but apparently the seller had more than one.[/quote]Thank you, Pat, for posting this. I went to the site and bought the other copy as soon as I read your post. I have been looking for this book for quite some time. :woohoo:
Now if I can find a copy of Fanderson’s version of “Earthfall” without spending the very high cost of joining Fanderson, I’d be even happier.
Earthfall takes elements from several Y1 stories, Wargames, Earthbound, Black Sun and Another Time, Another Place. The biggest difference is that there is a new generation of Alphans and a New Character, Rita Cantry who is and expert in human behaviour and adds a new voice to the Alphan saga.
The Moon enters a parallel universe in Breakaway and all of the action takes place there, the Black Sun is waht return s the Moon to our universe. Great books both, well worth a read.I think I’d trust Zack’s assessment. Sounds like he’s read it more recently than I.[url=http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php][img]http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/thumbsup.gif[/img][/url]
-Pat.
I’ve just received the manuscript back from John Mason with his edits. I will be reading it over this week. In the meantime, I’ve sent him some suggestions for his foreword–it’s always a daunting task figuring out what to say!
He is the right person to write the foreword for this book and I assured him of that. I, for one, can’t wait to read it!
We are one step closer to publication!
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