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*tap*tap* Is this thing on?
Thought I’d attempt to re-ignite my account and see what’s been going on here at Powys!
Glad to hear that the Year One Omnibus is still in the works!
I must confess, though, that I haven’t yet read The Final Revolution. 🙁 It’s in an ever-growing pile of books that lack the time to be read…but I’m now reminded that I must move it to the top soon!
Keep up the good work Bill–the new site is looking sharp!
I’ve been meaning to ask if anyone else sees the same problem with the home page that I do. I use Firefox and the new releases/coming soon graphics are always off.
I’ll attach a screen grab to show what I mean. Hopefully, it’ll be useful to you.
[img]http://www.captphilonline.com/powys/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/powyspage2.jpeg[/img]
Looking at the HTML, I think there needs to be perhaps an extra break (
) tag in there to get the images to not be shoved off to the right like that.EDIT: well the image is there, but I can’t seem to get it to show up in the message,so you’ll have to cut-n-paste the link, sorry.
Thanks for the replies, Bill and Mateo. I understand the general strategy, but I’m still not clear why all the post-Lulu titles aren’t listed on Lulu, unless doing so means you lose a chuck of the sales somehow. Seems to me having a few more titles “out in the wild” would increase the chance that new fans will find their way here.
Do not panic just yet, folks. It may be that this doesn’t get too much beyond the planning phase. And if it does, take the advice that JKM gave over on his blog and others here have already stated: judge it on its own terms, for every reboot is different, and some can be successful.
I can’t help but hope that anyone who thinks that SPACE:1999 is an interesting property to revisit simply has to see dramatic value in it, and not be the types who would dismiss it as hokey or camp, else they WOULD have passed it over.
So…cautious optimism…
Thanks for all the feedback, folks. I’m glad to know some feel as I do, while others feel I’m “missing the point” of the story, somehow. I never made any comment regarding the drama of the story, or of Space: 1999 in general. Of course I appreciate the scope and mystery that the series had to offer, both on television and now in print. My point was that dropping in a [i]non sequitur[/i] such as I described can only have the effect of disrupting the story by making one stop to scratch their head.
If Shakespeare had written, “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the west, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon…”, would you not halt and gape in astonishment that Shakespeare got his celestial mechanics so wrong? Even while admiring the poetry of the scene?
So, OK, the author had a blind spot with respect to how the earth appears from the moon. Fine–it was a flub. Let’s give it a mulligan. 🙂 Not such a big deal, especially now that such things could conceivably be fixed after the fact thanks to print-on-demand. If Mateo and Co. can rewrite bits of the old novelizations and novels to fit the stories together better, then perhaps this little point can be addressed as well someday.
[b]mateo wrote:[/b]
[quote]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![/quote]
It’s wonderful that POD makes this possible, but it makes a part of me want to hold back a bit when a new book comes out so others can “beta test” (i.e.: proofread) it, so that *my* copy will be perfect. 🙂
However, I’ll try to quell such selfish impulses and join the Alphan Proofreading Brigade on all future novels. 🙂
Just wanted to report that I received a copy of Shepherd Moon from Lulu this week, and it was packaged quite well–wrapped in a styrofoam sheet, shrink-wrapped to cardboard, packed in a 8″x12″ box. Looks perfect! Sorry to hear others have been having trouble with Lulu; hopefully it is only an anomaly.
Nice pic, Ultra! Wish I’d taken a photo like that when I visited the VLA back in 2004. The visitor’s center was closed, and I was pretty bummed–I wanted the T-shirt, or at least the coffee mug!
