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Tex, you’re awesome — you still post up here (when the rest of the world has abandoned us for Facebook). As a reward, ask ten questions, any ten questions, and they shall be answered…
YOW! I got noticed by Mr. Bill!
Anyhoo…
Facebook is a transient, non-searchable waste of time, and of little use save to promote things, or for folks to comment that they are going to >insert generic fast food hole hereinsert name of McCrap here<. Pointless back and forth will ensue, wasting more precious free time that could have been spent more productively READING (preferably Powys books.)
So, ten questions…
1-Will there be a Year One Omnibus?
2-If yes, which text for the Year One stories will be used (US or GB)? There are differences, as shewn here…
Pertinent quotes from the topic…
"The last lines in chapter four of Tubb's "Breakaway" novelization have Koenig and crew pondering their fate as the moon heads toward Meta.
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Meta, the target of the probe, the mysterious world from which came equally mysterious signals. Luck? Coincidence?
Necessity, rather–now that Earth was lost to them, they would have to find a new home. A new home which they could call their own.
Meta, perhaps?
It would have to be Meta.
To Carter, standing at his side, Koenig said, dryly, 'Well, Captain, it looks as if you've got your wish to go exploring, only now you've got every man and woman in Alpha as your crew.'"The first line of chapter 5 is "They renamed it Terra Nova–wishful thinking, perhaps, but it looked good.""
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"Well, your edition is different from mine. Mine's the original publication by Futura, 1975. And it says this at the end of chapter four:
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Now that Earth was lost to them they would have to find a new home. A new world which they could call their own.
Meta?
It was unlikely that their new trajectory would take them to Meta now. But there was still the rest of the universe and somewhere there might be a new home.
To Carter, standing at his side, Koenig said, dryly, 'Well, Captain, it looks as if you've got your wish to go exploring – only now you've got every man and woman in Alpha as your crew.'"Chapter five starts:
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They named it Terra Nova, wishful thinking, perhaps, but it looked good. Koenig listened to the reports of the reconnaissance team;"Not, "renamed" notice, just "named" – and following on from the previous chapter, it's obviously not referring to Meta, but to the new world they have encountered here. The implication is that time has passed between the chapters.
"See, I'm not making it up. The text must have been changed between the British and US editions."
3-Will there be hardcover editions available? Since it's Lulu, there should be no cost to Powys for offering the choice (save for the initial grunt-work bashing the text into a new format.) And, since it's Lulu, you and Mateo won't have to move boxes of unsold hardcovers out of the garage every time youse guys need to park your Pininfarina Modulos.
That should do for now. More from the remaining seven to come, as interest from the rest of the crew warrants (time to drag their butts BACK from the abyss known as Facebook, yah?)
And THANK YOU for monitoring the Powys Forum. I thought that I was the only one doing so anymore.
Tex
(lone Alphan of the South Coast)Okay, here we go!
1. Yes, there will be a Year One Omnibus. Remember back in 2010 when all sorts of coolness was coming out of Powys after a long sleep? Well, yours truly spent New Year’s Eve of 2009 at home scanning paperback pages for the Year One Omnibus, pausing only long enough to watch the ball drop. So it pains me that the book’s not out yet. While I’ve tried to focus my efforts on getting the new stuff written, I step in from time to time to help this project along. It’s actively being worked on right now, we have the contracts all signed — now it’s up to us to deliver.
2. I’ll get you an answer for #2 — I know that the primary mover on the project right now is dipping into multiple sources to get the best stuff in place for the final text.
3. I want hardcovers for me! So yes, they will happen. Lulu’s been frustrating the past year or so with the way they stop supporting some format sizes for their international distribution, and it’s a pain to reformat the books. I basically need big blocks of time to do it and while I’m in there, proofreading starts to happen and the next thing I know, my weekend’s gone. But I personally want hardcover editions, so that’s reformatting for me that I can just share with everyone else.
Okay, that’s 3 questions, 7 to go, and I’ll get you an answer that’s more definitive on question 2.
Thanks, Tex! Keep ’em coming.
BL
Hey! Tex isn’t the only one who pops in here now and again to see what (if anything) is going on (although facebook does seem to be THE place for updates about the Powys books) 🙂
Updated answer for #2:
“Originals with modifications from the scripts as needed.”
So that doesn’t necessarily specify US or UK — the big thing is novelizations of the actual episodes themselves, where they’re weren’t always “representative” of the broadcast episodes, will be made more representative — meaning we want you to be able to read the episodes just the way you’d watch them, without missing bits of dialogue. Where it’s appropriate, we’ll add little bits of Powys-ness to make everything complete.
[quote=”Steve F” post=3222]Hey! Tex isn’t the only one who pops in here now and again to see what (if anything) is going on (although facebook does seem to be THE place for updates about the Powys books) :)[/quote]
Indeed – I also pop in from time to time 🙂
But alas, I do not do – and never will do – Facebook….
Regards to all.
Simon
Hey, Simon!
I’m slowly trying to get this site to be a little more “alive” again — I also need to get the old Omega Diary hooked up on my new williamlatham.net website — the pages are loaded up on the server, I just need to enable some links.So I’ll use this space to dispense a little information on three topics, to reward those who come up here.
Mary’s Monster Redux — so the new edition won’t be a Powys Book — I’m spinning off my own little publishing company and that will be one of its first books. The new version is a lot of fun to work on — just don’t get much time to do it. For anybody familiar with the old version, this has some pieces from the old book but I’d say it’s 95% different. I’m trying to keep it in the same scope of the original but the overall story will be very different. I’d say it’s about a third finished, so probably not for this year.
Eternity Unhinged — so, what is this anyway? Well, I’m not going to give too many details. When Balor’s on his asteroid, he’s going to remember something that happened on Progron — it’s a whole story within a story kind of thing. It won’t change any of the events from Eternity Unbound really, at least plotwise, but it will give some additional glimpses into our favorite Progronian whackjob.
Odysseus Wept — well, this book is a lot of things. It’s something of a sequel to The Forsaken. It’s also the end of the line for our book series, and as you’d probably surmise, the characters (or some of them, anyway). But it’s not all as bleak as it sounds, there will be things left in place for…well, don’t want to give anything away, really. There’s obviously some business from the end of Final Revolution that needs addressing.
Assuming we do special hardcovers of Omega and Alpha, I may rip apart Chasing the Cyclops and do an annotated version of the two books. I may also write out a prequel novella of Adantia’s story — I’ve always wanted to go back to that.
Let me also not ignore Steve Foster in my posting, who also comes to visit regularly, even if he’s mad when I kill off characters! Not to worry, Steve — you’ll have to decide after it all turns out in Odysseus Wept if I am as evil as I seem!
Anyway, that’s what’s exciting. Happy Spring everybody!
BL
Thank you for the quick replies (and apologies for the tardiness of mine.)
4)-You beat me to the punch about Mary’s Monster. I’d like the Redux in hardcover, too, please. It will go on the shelf with my Everyman Library hardcover of Frankenstein. And the original edition of your novel will slot in NICELY between them.
Now let’s move on to another Powys series–The Prisoner.
5)-Will the 2nd book (Miss Freedom) be reprinted for general consumption? So far, you gotta track it down on the secondary market, like I did, and it would be hoopy if it could be made more readily available for Prisonerphiles everywhere.
6)-And will the Prisoner novels also be made available in hardcover? (You will note a pattern to my questions.)
And that’ll hold my fellow Alphans for a while. Good to see Steve F and kalthon still checking in for updates.
Tex
(at a research station FAR from Main Mission)[quote=”blatham” post=3223]
“Originals with modifications from the scripts as needed.”
— the big thing is novelizations of the actual episodes themselves, where they’re weren’t always “representative” of the broadcast episodes, will be made more representative — [/quote]guess that means there will be some noticeable changes with Space Guardians. Brian Ball did a good job of meshing the 3 stories together and filling them out in that one. I recall that added scene in Missing Link where Bergman found an ancient alien ship with 3 empty suspended animation chambers. And Koenig’s continued depression and eventual recovery through the rest of the novel.
I call in every day. Problem is, my work I.T. department thinks that Powys is a game site and so has blocked it.
I will pop in when I remember to at home. The news all looks good here at the moment and I can’t wait for another book. The hardcover editions sound wonderful and they will make me dust off my dancing shoes, well I might even go out and buy a new pair. 🙂Miss Freedom will be for general publication. No hardcover — just want to be done with The Prisoner series. We’ll get out the regular edition and then walk away like you did from that person you never should have dated in college but you thought, what’s the harm?
That’s too bad. Miss Freedom was a good enough read, as I recall, and The Prisoner’s Dilemma was excellent. As I recall, there were other writers like Lance Parkin mentioned as planned Prisoner novelists, and I was looking forward to those. But at least Big Finish is doing an audio series now.
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