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Python! The universal attention shifter… :laugh:
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you…
William ‘two sheds’ Latham. :silly:
(Dressed as a General)
All right, stop this, it’s too silly. It started out as a perfectly nice conversation about a book and now it’s gone all silly.
I enjoy a good joke as well as anyone. Except perhaps my wife. And some of her friends. Come to think of it, most people enjoy a good joke more than I do. But this is talk about books, and books are serious, and may God strike me dead if it were otherwise.
RIP, General Harry S. Frankenstein (Mrs.)
:laugh: in fact :rofl: My entire office just wanted to know what was so funny… And now they all know that I was on the net… 🙂
That’s ok, I’m the boss.
So if we have to have a nice conversation about a book, let me ask you this. What would you like to see in a ‘possible’ sequel to “Forsaken”? What direction would you like to see it take? A harrowing tale that leads to the death of all, with a bitter Paul Morrow counting his losses and despairing of leaving Alpha in the first place as he gasps his last breath? Or maybe a journey of discovery as the tiny band of settlers explore their new home for a place to live?
Do tell guys, we could have it all worked out before the book is even released. 😉
Wow Pat, that’s very deep… Is that what you want to see in the possible sequel?
Care to elaborate a little…
Well, it’s not what I [i]want [/i]to see, but it is where I think it could go. It’s just a hunch.
At the risk of being as enigmatic as Mr. Latham, seek, and ye shall find. People ought to listen to Captain Carter more closely before acting. He was around live and in person to observe what it might mean (unlike Maya, and Anna Davis, Bergman, Morrow from Santa Maria).
Just a guess. (I know nuting…NUTING!)
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-Pat.
Ya see, for me, Powys’ publications have been like those puzzle boxes that you have to open to get the prize inside. The prize could be a pack of Juicy Fruit gum (major shout-out to hard core Landau/Bain fans…), or it could be a $1,5000 gift certificate to Fanderson to buy an Eagle model. Each story tells you which piece to slide, but [b]YOU [/b]have to figure out the sequence to push the pieces to open the box. I’m betting that there is more likely to be something way cool, as opposed to something lame, inside.
Some people don’t have the patience for those boxes. They smash them with a hammer, and they get what is hidden inside, but there is no sense of satisfaction. I like the challenge, and I enjoy making mistakes as well as guessing correctly. You can learn more from mistakes than in being correct!
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-Pat.
Oh Pat, I think I’m in love with you… Marry me? :laugh:
I really like your approach to this. The big problem is, figuring out what is in and what is out in the Powysverse. There are already some contradictions creeping in. Sandra’s speech in Message from Moonbase Alpha mentions Luke and Anna on their Arkadia but she would know that they were dead. It is almost like a roll call of those she loved who were no longer around, but Professor Bergman is mentioned. Maybe he will vanish again…
I guess that is all part of the fun of putting together a puzzle with several different designers. 😉
But remember, at the end of Alpha, Luke and Anna are on their “new Arkadia” — right?
As for Victor, well, we have to remember Victor’s getting on in years, and years pass between Alpha and MFMA.
There are post-Alpha stories in the works, and from a chronological perspective, eventually we will get to MFMA.
Oh no, you don’t get around me that way. 😛 That isn’t the Luke and Anna that Sandra knew, She would have mentioned all of those on Arkadia, not just two people. It would have been better to leave Luke and Anna where they were and have another planet altogether.
Actually this is one of the things I love about Space 1999, I am a passionate fan and will defend to the bitter end any “non-fan” who runs down my “religion”. But I must admit I have so much fun picking holes in the plot with other devotees.
Thanks Powys, for giving me a whole new set of plots to pick at. I’ll have to sharpen my nails, they’ve gone blunt… 🙂[b]Zack wrote:[/b]
[quote]Oh no, you don’t get around me that way. 😛 That isn’t the Luke and Anna that Sandra knew, She would have mentioned all of those on Arkadia, not just two people.[/quote][b][i]Unless[/i][/b]… Luke and Anna being on an “Arkadia” is something important in the grand scheme of things, which makes it worth mentioning. Such as… Paul & company are on Pyxidea, Luke and Anna are on Arkadia, we are going to Terra Alpha. All is right with the universe, now, because things are how they are meant to be (whatever that is), and new life has come back to three dead worlds.
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-Pat.
Edit: Actually, what I think is interesting is that Anna and Luke, and Morrow & company, left under mutinous circumstances. Sandra says the decision to go to Terra Alpha was “difficult”. Another mutiny, and this time JK backed down to avoid fracturing of what was left of Alpha personnel?
John Kenneth Muire you really hit this novel out of the ball park. I consider this to be the lost 25th episode of Space:1999’s 1st season. 🙂
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