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:ohmy: Just out of curiosity, I looked up [u]Survival [/u]and [u]Resurrection [/u] on Amazon and Amazon.uk. Powys – I think there is a market for re-releases, especially if you can format for Lulu to do the printing. Potential legal issues w/ changing printers notwithstanding, of course. I am sold on Lulu. Have you seen the asking prices for these books? My husband asked if I would therefore be selling my copies. *cough*sputter* Yeah, right.
-Pat.
You’ll be happy to know there are no legal issues with changing printers. We hire printers to print books; they have no stake in the material, the license, or copyright. And if you look at our first poll, we’re way ahead of you. 🙂
Btw, Survival is still in print and can be purchased here on the site, or via Amazon.com for its original cover price.
Also, I have noticed over the years how few people ever sell our books on eBay, etc. It looks like people are considering them “keepers”. Flattering.
Mateo
Has anyone read the epilogue of SURVIVAL lately. If you’ve finished Omega, it might be fun to go back and read it. Oh yeah, we’ve been foreshadowing this for a LONG time!
Omega
Here there be spoilers :
[Spoiler]
The cover proclaims a “spectacular science fiction epic” and it certainly is that.
The premise of the book is that Alpha’s journey has been predestined from the start and that their adventures are interlinked rather than being random. What this means in practice is that the book hinges on a bewildering number of continuity references to episodes and previous novels which the author makes no attempt to explain to any newcomers. Consequently you end up with a novel which only the hardest of hardcore 1999 fans can fully enjoy.The book ends on a cliffhanger with all the plot threads unresolved. It’s a bit frustrating to reach the end of a novel only to discover you are expected to buy another one to read the end of the story. Hopefully that novel will be a little less convoluted and a little more forgiving in bringing readers up to speed, rather than assuming that we all watched the TV show a fortnight ago and read the other Powys novels last week.
On the plus side, I like the way that Year Three now seems to be cherry picking the best elements of the two seasons on TV. For example Bergman and Kano are back and the Alphans have returned to Main Mission. I hadn’t liked where Latham left Bergman at the end of Shepherd Moon. It seemed such a downer. I should have guessed that it was all part of Powys’s masterplan 🙂 [/spoiler]
Loved it overall, and can’t wait until part two arrives. Analyzing the book’s plot, I realized that [spoiler]nothing was mentioned about the murder of the Space Brain and its effect on Pyxidea. So I re-read the overture and parts of [i]The Forsaken[/i]. I wonder if any of that will be mentioned later…[/spoiler]
An interesting question re: the Space Brain, for more information you might try the URL in the book. There is a handy thread on the forum about “problems with URLs” if it doesn’t work for you.
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