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See, now why couldn’t I have been the balding elder scientist looking at some funky transparent globelike thing?! :blink:
Me and my son… [img]http://www.captphilonline.com/powys/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/securedownload.jpg[/img]
Upcoming re-releases:
Resurrection audiobook
The Forsaken
Survival
Eternity Unleashed (as a standalone novel), originally published in an omnibus edition called Eternity Unbound.Now that Resurrection is back in print once again, people can stop paying exhorbitant prices for it!
More good news:
Cesar Gallegos has sent us the corrected files for the Resurrection audiobook reissue via Lulu. Again, there was some confusion about which logo we should use. We don’t have a release date yet, but there are still copies of the first edition available on this site.
Thanks to Bill for uploading the Resurrection book to Lulu too!
Tell me what you want (via email), I’ll quote you a price. Shipping costs will have to be determined at the post office. It’s difficult to calculate for multiple item orders due to increased weight affecting shipping charges.
The first edition version of the Resurrection audiobook is still available. It differs only in that it has a four-panel insert rather than the second edition’s two-panel iinsert (which now lacks the Barry Gray bio and the author’s note).
Anybody wishing to order non-Lulu items can do so by emailing me directly. They can paypal me the cost of the book and shipping and I will personally ship them their items.
I have in stock with me:
Survival
Resurrection Audiobook (first release)
Year Two Omnibus
Prisoner’s DilemmaAlso:
Survival and The Prisoner’s Dilemma can be ordered via Amazon.com directly.
My copies of the Resurrection audiobook are limited. I am still getting orders from other people, which leads me to think it is a browser issue. Access the site via a different browser, it might work.
Mateo
To modify an old limerick:
No matter how much you check
And how closely you look
There’ll always be typos
Left in the bookUnfortunately!
But if you send them to us, we will do our best to fix them for future printings (meaning: we fix them, then upload the new version of the manuscript to Lulu, and immediately any new books printed are fixed!).
Send ’em! We’ve only received one email with a few typos noticed—in Omega!
the latest:
The cover has been approved pending a change of logo (ITV has more than a few).
John Mason and I have hammered out another version of the manuscript, and come to agreement on certain changes we want to make to the novel. I will read the latest draft this weekend and offer some final notes for the final draft.
The people at Staples must love me by now, all the manuscripts I have printed and bound there. They already know…doubled-sided, coil bound, black and clear plastic covers.
The decision to resolve some of the mysteries of the series was mine. I felt that after 25 years, it would be okay to answer some long-standing questions. However, from the start I set out with the authors to reveal the truths throughout the novels. Each one, even the short stories and omnibus, contain little bits of information that are eventually tied together with the bits revealed in the episodes to form the backdrop for Omega and Alpha. Of course Chasing the Cyclops tells exactly how that mythology was actually developed. In it, you’ll see how the groundwork for the duology was laid from the start. Anyone who’s read the book knows that William Latham is the principal architect of that mythology–my role in it was minor by comparison.
But new mysteries arise out of old mysteries. And there are still old mysteries we haven’t touched.
Another controversial decision was setting Year One and Year Two in the same universe, the same continuity. There were people who were very angry at that decision. Again, it was my decision. Love it or hate it, Year Two had some great new characters and lots of interesting backstory for the characters. And many of the episodes, could have been written (and some were) for Year One. I’d suggest that Lambda Factor, Seance Spectre, and Immunity Syndrome, just to name a few, could certainly have worked as Year One episodes in terms of the stories they told. We didn’t see anything to gain in disgarding 24 episodes.
The removal of Maya’s abilities was another decision, this one made by Bill and me together. We felt her metamorphic abilities were too often used as a deus ex machina that pulled Moonbase Alpha’s collective asses out of the fire. We felt that Maya (largely due to Catherine Schell’s wonderful portrayal) was a good character in an of itself and that the metamorphic abiliities had worn out their welcome.As David McIntee has said, this turn of events was in his “brief” for the novel. We wanted Maya to lose her metamorphic abilities and we wanted Main Mission back.
In the Powysverse, the alternate Alphans are on our Earth in the far future. The planet is nearly completely barren and now depopulated. We don’t consider them to be in an “alternate” universe. Now the “Future Alphans” from the “Alterverse”, well that’s another story!
That’s the beauty of the series! It’s open to interpretation and nothing is black and white!
We formatted Android Planet in the same size font as our other books. The original book was 159 pages, this one is probably a little longer with all the additions (though some things were deleted too). But in the smaller font that we use, it came out to fewer pages.
The novel is what it is. I wanted to respect that and not pad it with additional chapters of filler for the sake of length. John Mason and I changed what needed to be changed to fit the novel into the Powysverse, but we worked those changes into the novel as written. We tried to stay as true to the original work as we could while fulfilling our promise to fit the series’s continuity.
