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[b]nicolas lemarignier wrote:[/b]
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So if the author reads this, I have just one question : have you got another novel in preparation ?[/quote]
Not Space 1999, though I did just have a Star Trek novel come out last month…
I’d certainly love to do another S1999 story if a slot for one comes available at Powys.
[b]Steve F wrote:[/b]
[quote]That’s a shame (re: you not being a Short Story writer) and as for not writing any more original Who novels, again, your reasoning makes sense. I’ve enjoyed reading several of the newer, hard cover novels based on the new series (I thought “Prisoner of the Daleks” by Trevor Baxendale was quite superb!) but yes, they do tend to lack… a certain something.Still, what a high note to go out on! (“The Eleventh Tiger”). Quite superb!
Still, one can only hope you’ll write something Who-related again one day 🙂 and if we’re lucky, another novel set in the [b]SPACE: 1999 [/b]universe too B)[/quote]
Anything’s possible – though I have to confess that the one 1999 idea I really fancy doing requires Maya to be a shapeshifter, so there’s a certain irony involved…
[quote][b]Steve F wrote:[/b]
I bought each and everyone of your books… right up to “The Eleventh Tiger”. Correct me if I’m wrong David, but wasn’t that your last Doctor Who novel? Why haven’t you written any since?[/quote]Because the series of regular adult novels ended and went to being childrens books.
[quote]Have you approached Mateo with the possibility of contributing a short story for the forthcoming “Prodigal Moon” short story anthology?[/quote]
I’m not really a short story writer if I can avoid it…
[quote][b]Steve F wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]Lonemagpie wrote:[/b]
I’d be up for an encore performance…[/quote]Does this mean… that you are in fact… Mr David A. McIntee himself?[/quote]
Yes. Lonemagpie’s the name I have on Livejournal and the TrekBBS so I figured i’d keep it here as well.
[quote]If so… Yay! B) Great fan of your Doctor Who novels (e.g Shadow of Weng-Chiang, Sanctuary, The Eleventh Tiger, The Face of the Enemy, White Darkness etc. to name but a few I’ve bought over the years!).
[/quote]Glad you liked them – especially those middle three, which are my favourites!
[quote]Of course… if you’re not Mr McIntee… I’m making a fool of myself! Haha! 😉 :P[/quote]
No, you’re not making a fool of yourself – though I’d usually say “Mr McIntee’s my dad…”
[b]Procyonstar wrote:[/b]
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[quote]the continual swapping between English and Metric units [/quote]didn’t bother me either, here in the UK its normal !!
[/quote]There is that! I never even thought about it, it’s just natural here.
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BfA as a new sp1999 publication…made me very happy – so all you’ll hear from me is wild applause…and a cry of ‘encore’…
[/quote]I’d be up for an encore performance…
I’m no rocket scientist either – but I hope I know what makes a good Michael Bay moment…
[quote]PatS wrote:
Ah, so it it [u]does [/u]take a rocket scientist to pick up on those things. Can I quote you on this? Really, can I? [i]*whisper*: Don’t tell anybody, but [strike]there’s some shaky biology in there too. [/strike]:dry:[/i]
[/quote]Shaky biology’s kind of a prerequisite in this kind of series, where you’re dealing with crossing terrestrial and extraterrestrial species. So you have to sort of… develop something you know is rubbish, but sounds good!
Obviously it’s different if you’re writing a completely original novel, because then you can be as accurate or fantastical as you like.
Then again, I like to take the piss as well – in other books I’ve had a Minkowski Generator as part of a ship’s engine (to wind up the mathematicians), a nightclub monitored by closed-circuit radio, and so on.
So in addition to the demands of balancing realism and fantasy, some of nits are going to have been deliberate gags…
Dave Reilly- what the hell was Patrick Mower thinking?
Still, it’s nice to be able to do something about these things…
Oh, and I like to think Sandra gets a good crack at the whip in BFA…
[b]mtpassmore wrote:[/b]
[quote]Do you keep a data base or some record of every Moonbase Alpha character, in particular the incidentals, that were used in the series and in your books so that you don’t kill someone twice, for example?[/quote]Dunno about Powys generally, but in my case, pretty much- I downloaded everything of that nature that I could find on the web, and made a reference CD. And of course I have the whole series on DVD.
ETA- I saw this question come in on my email and thought it was a reference to me saying about the use of the reversed planet image – forgot it was the “ask Powys” thread!
I’m so vain, I probably think the song is about me…
[b]Ultra wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]PatS wrote:[/b]
[quote]And if I ask if it is a coincidence that the planet on the alternate cover art looks like Meta from Breakaway, will you answer? :huh:[/quote]He’ll probably say that it looks a bit more like Ariel from Last Sunset…
although there is a striking similarity to Meta as well. Perhaps some SFX of Meta were re-used in Last Sunset??
[/quote]Other way round, sort of – Meta, as seen on a viewscreen in Breakaway, is the planet for Ariel flipped so it’s a mirror image and fed through onto the monitor. I suspect the effects crew happened to be working on that planet effect while the live action crew were filming the scenes for Breakaway and it’s just chance that it happened to be the globe that was handy for pointing a camera at at the time…
That’s the thing I meant – this is your forum, not mine, but I’d suggest making that the required spoiler thing, rather than just spoiler space.
[b]mateo wrote:[/b]
[quote]This is just a reminder to everyone. If your post contains spoilers, please put the word SPOILERS in your subject line and in your post. Follow the word with a healthy bit of spoiler space before you start posting informaton that could be classified as a spoiler.There are lots of surprising turns in our novels, unexpected revelations, etc. Everyone has the right to learn about them when they read the books.
Feel free to talk about anything in the books–that’s what the forum is for–BUT please let people know when a spoiler is coming. Give them enough space to avert seeing something accidentally.
THANKS![/quote]
Does this forum’s engine not support hiding spoilers with blank space or a button? Most fora have a tag that can be used to do that, because people scrolling down to make or read a new post might well scroll past both spoiler space and spoilers on the way…
[b]AlphaGuy wrote:[/b]
[quote] She seemed rather low-key and depressed, unlike her appearance on the television episodes. .[/quote]Purely deliberate- remember the book is set a good couple of years after we last saw her on screen, and issues have had that long to get her down…
[b]PatS wrote:[/b]
[quote]Actually, if you want to get freaky-geeky, pre-Powys, hair-splitting about it: In the scene in “The Exiles” where they explaining to Cantar why they can’t bring down any more capsules, Helena says they can’t permit any [b]new [/b][i][/i]births (had to check my horrible laser-disc to video copy to verify this). This is also the position in Michael Butterworth’s original novelization (although in the Y2 Omnibus, the phrase is changed to any [i]more [/i]new births…). Did the screen writer intend to imply there had been births? .[/quote]That was my interpretation of the line when I marathoned the series on DVD while writing BFA- There seemed to be some conflicting onscreen lines about the issue overall, but that one, coupled with with the cold fact that they *have* to replace losses or die out, decided it for me…
[b]Spacefan wrote:[/b]
[quote] The author’s apparent familiarity with the latest computer science [/quote]Dunno about latest – my qualifications in SSADM are now about 15 years out of date – but I guess that just makes them a little more in keeping with 1999 technology!
