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  1. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    I'm getting a distinct Yamamoto vibe here... ...yeah, like I was saying :)

  2. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    IOTL the phrase "magnificent desolation" was coined by Buzz Aldrin when he first stepped onto the Moon.

  3. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    ..."Giant Kiwi"? :D

  4. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    You know, it only just occurred to me ... as many have pointed out, the UPSA certainly has parallels with the real USA, but in many ways I think it bears even more resemblance to the alt-USA from Decades of Darkness.

  5. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Not without them knowing. This is the age of the multi-volume series. I've read quite a few authors blogging about how they got published, and one frequent comment is that "I've got the sequels already written" is something publishers (and agents) love to hear.

  6. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Would this really be necessary? Surely parts of the Channel are narrow enough that an Optel tower with a good telescope could easily read signals from the other side.

  7. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    I have no idea whether Thande had it in mind, or has even heard of it, but all the time I was reading about Sanchez's "Final Society", I couldn't help thinking of the Final Empire from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn books (despite being personally fairly sympathetic to Sanchez's political philosophy).

  8. That Wacky Redhead

    I wouldn't say it looks like the designs here were specifically inspired by Gerry Anderson shows. I suspect it would be more accurate to say that these designs and those of Derek Meddings (chief of effects for the Anderson shows, and most of the James Bond movies) show some clear similarities...

  9. That Wacky Redhead

    My theory on stardates is that we're not hearing the complete date. In the real world we often give only the last two digits of the year in everyday conversation. Another fictional example is Warhammer 40,000 - in the Imperium it's usual to give 3-digit years, adding the millennium only when...

  10. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    I found the Flag War particularly amusing because my own country (New Zealand) is currently going through the latest of its own periodic public angst-fests over whether or not to replace our very British-looking flag :)

  11. That Wacky Redhead

    I have no clear memory of which ST:TOS episodes I saw in their first run either; I know I watched many of them but I couldn't tell you which ones. My earliest memory of Doctor Who is a frightening scene in "The Rescue" where Ian Chesterton was trapped by spikes emerging from the wall while he...

  12. That Wacky Redhead

    When I was at university (in New Zealand in the early 1980s), we used to say that the difference between British and American SF TV series was that the British had three dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans did it the other way around.

  13. That Wacky Redhead

    We haven't even heard what the trial was about or who was trying who yet, have we? If we did I missed it.

  14. That Wacky Redhead

    Hey, if TTL's Doctor Who is barely avoiding contradicting itself, it's doing a hell of a lot better than OTL's version :)

  15. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    Possibly because a lot of us don't know it exists. I didn't know about it either until Thande posted that link.

  16. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    Whereas I was irresistibly reminded, in a sort of mirror image way, of V for Vendetta (both the comic and movie). The "alternate interpretation" briefly mentioned in an aside made me think of the scene near the end where the dying V persuades Evie not to remove his mask, because he wants to be...

  17. That Wacky Redhead

    I can't help wondering if the American Party is going to have an opinion on that kind of treatment of their mascot... :) (I can also imagine candidates from the other two parties, standing against the AP, starting a campaign speech with "As God is my witness..." to get an instant reaction from...

  18. That Wacky Redhead

    It was a reasonable conclusion for viewers to draw, since the character was credited as "Doctor Who" for most of the classic series, up to the end of Tom Baker's run. The name in the credits wasn't changed to "The Doctor" until Peter Davison took over (and later briefly changed back to "Doctor...

  19. That Wacky Redhead

    Hi! New reader here, only recently discovered this timeline and just caught up. For your demographic purposes, I'm a New Zealander, born 1962. I've always been much more of a fan of Doctor Who than Star Trek (for the record, though, I liked TNG better than any of the other incarnations)...

  20. Look to the West -- Thread II

    A minor matter that I've been meaning to ask about for a while, and his mention in this update reminded me: for the benefit of those of us who don't have the faintest clue about French, how do you pronounce "Lisieux"?
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